Studies & Reporting Manager

Job Purpose

Key Accountability Areas

Data Governance, Collection & Platforms:

• Define and standardize data collection methods (qualitative and quantitative).
• Oversee data platforms and reporting systems to ensure integration and consistency.
• Establish data governance frameworks, quality standards, and validation rules.
• Supervise development of data collection tools, templates, and dashboards.
• Ensure alignment between data sources, reporting needs, and analytical requirements.

Reporting Development & Performance Monitoring:

• Develop and maintain standardized reports, dashboards, and reporting templates.
• Consolidate reporting outputs from multiple sources into executive-level dashboards.
• Monitor performance indicators, identify deviations, and highlight key trends.
• Ensure accuracy, consistency, and timeliness of all reporting outputs.
• Continuously improve reporting structures to enhance decision-making.

Studies, Investment Analysis & Strategic Evaluation:

• Conduct and oversee studies related to investments, expansions, and strategic initiatives.
• Review feasibility studies and assess alignment with corporate strategy.
• Perform benchmarking and comparative analysis against industry peers.
• Evaluate business cases and provide recommendations for decision-making.
• Assess value creation and strategic impact of initiatives.

Performance Analysis & Decision Support:

• Analyze performance data and reporting outputs to identify trends, risks, and gaps.
• Translate data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
• Prepare consolidated reports and studies for executive management and committees.
• Support evidence-based decision-making across business units and sectors.
• Highlight improvement opportunities based on data-driven insights.

Stakeholder Coordination & Continuous Improvement:

• Collaborate with KPI owners, data providers, and business units.
• Ensure effective communication and alignment across reporting and study activities.
• Provide guidance on reporting tools, data usage, and interpretation.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting systems and analytical processes.
• Support automation, standardization, and enhancement of reporting capabilities.

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