SECTION MANAGER, CORPORATE BUSINESS PLANNING

Job Purpose

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.

Key Accountability Areas

Strategic Planning & Alignment:

• Lead support activities for developing and updating corporate strategic objectives and plans.
• Coordinate the cascading and alignment of strategic objectives across sectors and business units.
• Ensure alignment and consistency between business unit strategies and corporate direction.
• Review and track updates to strategic plans based on internal and external changes.
• Participate in evaluating strategic initiatives and alignment with corporate goals.

Performance Management & KPI Governance:

• Manage the coordination of KPI data collection and consolidation from relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of performance data from KPI owners.
• Lead preparation of periodic performance reports in line with approved methodologies.
• Oversee support provided to KPI owners in identifying performance gaps and issues.
• Manage root-cause analysis (RCA) activities for underperforming KPIs and recommend improvements.
• Track implementation of corrective actions and KPI performance progress.

Project Prioritization & Portfolio Support:

• Coordinate the prioritization of strategic projects in line with organizational objectives.
• Oversee analysis of project dependencies in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Manage identification of risks and support mitigation planning.
• Support project evaluation and portfolio review activities.

Data Platform Development & Standardization:

• Oversee support for implementation and maintenance of data platforms for reporting and decision-making.
• Lead efforts to standardize data systems across sectors to ensure consistent reporting.
• Coordinate development of centralized databases and core data structures.
• Support design and enhancement of integrated planning and performance platforms.
• Define and monitor data quality and performance indicators.
• Promote data governance and system integration across business units.

Annual Planning & Budget Coordination:

• Lead coordination of annual planning processes and template standardization.
• Manage planning timelines and ensure adherence to submission requirements.
• Ensure all business units maintain updated and aligned annual plans.
• Oversee alignment of annual plans with corporate strategy and priorities.

Annual Plan Performance Monitoring & Financial Analysis:

• Lead analysis of annual plan performance deviations using centralized data platforms.
• Oversee consolidation of quarterly performance reviews and reporting outputs.
• Manage review of performance reports and consolidated budgets.
• Coordinate sector-level financial and operational analysis.
• Recommend efficiency and performance improvement initiatives.

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