Senior Specialist - Business Planning

Job Purpose

To support the development and execution of business planning activities by enhancing planning methodologies, coordinating plans and schedules, monitoring performance, and providing analytical insights to support effective decision-making and achievement of organizational objectives.

Key Accountability Areas

Business Planning Methodology & Tools:

• Contribute to the enhancement of business planning methodologies, frameworks, tools, templates, and processes, ensuring alignment with organizational requirements and best practices.
• Evaluate planning practices and recommend improvements based on business needs, performance analysis, and stakeholder feedback.
• Maintain and refine planning documentation, templates, and reporting tools to promote consistency, accuracy, and compliance with organizational standards.
• Support the standardization of planning approaches across business units to improve planning effectiveness and reporting quality.
• Analyze planning outputs and identify opportunities to strengthen planning processes, methodologies, and governance practices.

Business Planning Execution & Coordination:

• Review project schedules, business plans, and related documentation to ensure alignment with organizational objectives, priorities, and approved requirements.
• Prepare, maintain, and update integrated project schedules, tracking key milestones, deliverables, dependencies, critical paths, and timelines.
• Perform schedule and planning analysis to identify risks, potential delays, resource constraints, and deviations from approved plans.
• Assess planning scenarios and provide recommendations to support informed decision-making and effective execution.
• Coordinate planning activities with relevant stakeholders to facilitate issue resolution and maintain alignment across projects and initiatives.
• Monitor the status of action items, commitments, and deliverables, ensuring timely follow-up and closure.
• Support cross-functional communication and information sharing to enhance planning transparency and execution effectiveness.

Reporting & Performance Monitoring:

• Prepare and consolidate business planning reports, dashboards, presentations, and performance updates for management and stakeholders.
• Analyze project and business performance data from multiple sources to identify trends, variances, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date planning records, reports, and supporting documentation.
• Track and evaluate key performance indicators (KPIs) and planning metrics to support performance monitoring and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide planning insights and analytical findings to support business reviews and decision-making processes.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to obtain updated soft and technical skills related to the job.

Delivery:

• Perform the planned activities to meet the operational and development targets as per delivery schedules.
• Utilize resources effectively to achieve objectives within efficient cost and time.
• Provide a periodic report formatted by detailing the deviation and execution of planned tasks.

Problem-Solving:

• Solve any related problems arise and escalate any complex operational issues.

Quality:

• Ensure quality requirements to develop effective quality control and processes including specifications for products or processes or related activities.

Business Process Improvements:

• Coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.

Compliance:

• Comply to related policy and procedures and work instructions.

Health, Safety, and Environment:

• Ensure compliance of relevant safety, quality, and environmental management procedures and controls within defined area of work activity to guarantee safety, legislative compliance, and delivery of high-quality products/services.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies