About this role
<p>.</p><div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Job Purpose</H2> </div><div><p>To lead corporate strategic planning, performance management, and annual planning processes, ensuring alignment across business units and enabling data-driven decision-making through standardized planning frameworks, integrated data platforms, and performance analysis.</p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Key Accountability Areas</H2> </div><div><p>Strategic Planning & Alignment:</p> <ul> <li>Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of corporate strategic objectives and plans.</li> <li>Cascade and align strategic objectives across the Group, including sectors, subsidiaries, and business units.</li> <li>Ensure integration and consistency between all organizational strategies and the overall corporate strategy.</li> <li>Update strategic plans in response to internal and external changes, market dynamics, and organizational priorities.</li> <li>Evaluate strategic initiatives and ensure alignment with long-term corporate goals.</li> </ul> <p>Performance Management & KPI Governance:</p> <ul> <li>Oversee the collection, consolidation, and analysis of strategic performance evaluation results.</li> <li>Ensure timely coordination with KPI owners and stakeholders for accurate and complete data submission.</li> <li>Analyze performance results and prepare periodic management reports in line with approved methodologies.</li> <li>Support KPI owners in assessing performance gaps and identifying challenges affecting low-performing indicators.</li> <li>Conduct root-cause analysis (RCA) for underperforming KPIs and propose actionable improvement plans.</li> <li>Monitor corrective actions and track improvement in KPI performance over time.</li> </ul> <p>Project Prioritization & Portfolio Analysis:</p> <ul> <li>Manage the prioritization of strategic projects based on organizational goals, resource availability, and constraints.</li> <li>Analyze interdependencies between projects in collaboration with project owners.</li> <li>Identify potential risks and propose mitigation strategies to ensure successful execution.</li> <li>Support decision-making for project selection, approval, and portfolio optimization.</li> </ul> <p>Data Platform Development & Standardization:</p> <ul> <li>Select, develop, and maintain data platforms for extraction, reporting, and executive decision-making.</li> <li>Standardize and unify data systems across sectors to ensure consistency in reporting and analysis.</li> <li>Build and enhance centralized databases, including foundational structures such as charts of accounts.</li> <li>Design and implement integrated platforms for annual planning, performance tracking, and reporting.</li> <li>Develop key data quality and performance indicators to ensure reliability and accuracy of information.</li> <li>Continuously improve data governance and platform integration across business units.</li> </ul> <p>Annual Planning & Budget Coordination:</p> <ul> <li>Standardize annual planning templates and ensure consistent adoption across all business units.</li> <li>Define timelines, submission requirements, and responsibilities for annual planning cycles.</li> <li>Ensure all business units maintain updated and approved annual plans.</li> <li>Monitor alignment of annual plans with strategic objectives and corporate priorities.</li> </ul> <p>Annual Plan Performance Monitoring & Financial Analysis:</p> <ul> <li>Analyze performance deviations in annual plans using centralized data platforms.</li> <li>Consolidate quarterly planning review outcomes and prepare executive reports.</li> <li>Review organizational and sector-level performance reports and consolidated budgets.</li> <li>Conduct financial and operational analysis at the sector level and provide actionable recommendations for improvement.</li> <li>Support leadership in identifying efficiency opportunities and performance optimization initiatives.</li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Role Accountability</H2> </div><div><p>HR Proficiency:</p> <ul> <li>Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.</li> <li>Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.</li> <li>Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.</li> <li>Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.</li> <li>Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.</li> </ul> <p>Responsibility:</p> <ul> <li>Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.</li> <li>Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them</li> <li>Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.</li> </ul> <p>Delivery:</p> <ul> <li>Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.</li> <li>Making a Tangible Difference:</li> <li>Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.</li> </ul> <p>Business Planning and Performance:</p> <ul> <li>Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.</li> <li>Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.</li> <li>Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.</li> <li>Provide periodic work progress reports.</li> <li>Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.</li> </ul> <p>Organizational Development:</p> <ul> <li>Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.</li> <li>Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.</li> </ul> <p>Business Process Improvements:</p> <ul> <li>Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.</li> <li>Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.</li> <li>Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.</li> </ul> <p>Quality:</p> <ul> <li>Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.</li> </ul> <p>Adaptation:</p> <ul> <li>Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.</li> </ul> <p>Health, Safety and Environment:</p> <ul> <li>Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.</li> </ul> </div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Academic Qualification</H2> </div><div><div>Bachelor Degree in Business Management or Any relevant field</div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Work Experience</H2> </div><div><div>6 to 10 Years</div></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:16.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px">Technical / Functional Competencies</H2> </div><div><div>Financial Analysis</div><div>Financial Forecasting</div><div>Business Planning</div><div>Business Planning and Simulation (BPS)</div><div>Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)</div></div></div></div>