Corporate Planning & Studies Manager

Job Purpose

• Preparing, analyzing and following up on data, creating an integrated system for business reports through the latest applications (BI) and making them available to the parties that need them.
• Studying problems and proposing solutions so that they are ready in the service of management, following up on financial and operational performance, following up on monthly and quarterly plans and meetings, and the minutes of meetings associated with them, and following up on their implementation.
• Develop plans and follow them up from an integrated perspective that allows it a comprehensive view.
• Establishing an information system so that the planning and follow-up mechanism can be relied upon to be carried out in a standard and regular manner in the various units of the company.
• Promoting the concepts of planning, follow-up and project management in all company units so that they become an essential part of management mechanisms

Key Accountability Areas

Create, develop, maintain, compile and standardize data platforms:

• Choosing appropriate platforms for creating and extracting databases in order to facilitate decision-making by various levels of management.
• Continuous development and maintenance of these aforementioned platforms and linking them together for the purpose of collecting information to produce it in a useful way.
• Aggregation and unification of platforms across sectors so that there is the largest number of common standard reports.
• Participate in building the basic information bases (for example: the chart of accounts).
• Develop appropriate indicators to measure data.
• Work on developing an integrated platform for annual plans data.

Study and submit proposals for current and future investments:

• Studying investments and expansions in existing units and following up on the approval of fixed asset investments.
• Study the proposed investments and acquisitions and ensure that they meet the required conditions before presenting them to the Board of Directors.
• Follow up on economic feasibility studies.
• Make comparisons with companies with similar activities to determine the competitiveness of different units.

Integrative opportunities:

• Analyzing and studying current and future business plans in order to benefit from complementary opportunities at the level of a single sector or group with the full participation of the units concerned.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• 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.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies