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 support the execution of corporate strategic planning, performance management, and annual planning processes by coordinating alignment across business units, ensuring accurate KPI reporting, and contributing to data-driven decision-making through standardized planning, reporting, and performance analysis frameworks.</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 support activities for developing and updating corporate strategic objectives and plans.</li> <li>Coordinate the cascading and alignment of strategic objectives across sectors and business units.</li> <li>Ensure alignment and consistency between business unit strategies and corporate direction.</li> <li>Review and track updates to strategic plans based on internal and external changes.</li> <li>Participate in evaluating strategic initiatives and alignment with corporate goals.</li> </ul> <p>Performance Management & KPI Governance:</p> <ul> <li>Manage the coordination of KPI data collection and consolidation from relevant stakeholders.</li> <li>Ensure timely and accurate submission of performance data from KPI owners.</li> <li>Lead preparation of periodic performance reports in line with approved methodologies.</li> <li>Oversee support provided to KPI owners in identifying performance gaps and issues.</li> <li>Manage root-cause analysis (RCA) activities for underperforming KPIs and recommend improvements.</li> <li>Track implementation of corrective actions and KPI performance progress.</li> </ul> <p>Project Prioritization & Portfolio Support:</p> <ul> <li>Coordinate the prioritization of strategic projects in line with organizational objectives.</li> <li>Oversee analysis of project dependencies in collaboration with stakeholders.</li> <li>Manage identification of risks and support mitigation planning.</li> <li>Support project evaluation and portfolio review activities.</li> </ul> <p>Data Platform Development & Standardization:</p> <ul> <li>Oversee support for implementation and maintenance of data platforms for reporting and decision-making.</li> <li>Lead efforts to standardize data systems across sectors to ensure consistent reporting.</li> <li>Coordinate development of centralized databases and core data structures.</li> <li>Support design and enhancement of integrated planning and performance platforms.</li> <li>Define and monitor data quality and performance indicators.</li> <li>Promote data governance and system integration across business units.</li> </ul> <p>Annual Planning & Budget Coordination:</p> <ul> <li>Lead coordination of annual planning processes and template standardization.</li> <li>Manage planning timelines and ensure adherence to submission requirements.</li> <li>Ensure all business units maintain updated and aligned annual plans.</li> <li>Oversee alignment of annual plans with corporate strategy and priorities.</li> </ul> <p>Annual Plan Performance Monitoring & Financial Analysis:</p> <ul> <li>Lead analysis of annual plan performance deviations using centralized data platforms.</li> <li>Oversee consolidation of quarterly performance reviews and reporting outputs.</li> <li>Manage review of performance reports and consolidated budgets.</li> <li>Coordinate sector-level financial and operational analysis.</li> <li>Recommend efficiency and performance improvement 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 management</div><div>Project Management</div><div>Financial Analysis</div><div>Financial Forecasting</div><div>Financial Statement Preparation</div></div></div></div>