Corporate Business Planning Manager

Job purpose

To lead corporate strategic planning, performance management, and annual planning processes, ensuring alignment across business units and enabling data-driven decision-making through standardized planning frameworks, integrated data platforms, and performance analysis.

Key accountability areas

Strategic planning & alignment:
Lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of corporate strategic objectives and plans.
Cascade and align strategic objectives across the group, including sectors, subsidiaries, and business units.
Ensure integration and consistency between all organizational strategies and the overall corporate strategy.
Update strategic plans in response to internal and external changes, market dynamics, and organizational priorities.
Evaluate strategic initiatives and ensure alignment with long-term corporate goals.

Performance management & KPI governance:
Oversee the collection, consolidation, and analysis of strategic performance evaluation results.
Ensure timely coordination with KPI owners and stakeholders for accurate and complete data submission.
Analyze performance results and prepare periodic management reports in line with approved methodologies.
Support KPI owners in assessing performance gaps and identifying challenges affecting low-performing indicators.
Conduct root-cause analysis (RCA) for underperforming KPIs and propose actionable improvement plans.
Monitor corrective actions and track improvement in KPI performance over time.

Project prioritization & portfolio analysis:
Manage the prioritization of strategic projects based on organizational goals, resource availability, and constraints.
Analyze interdependencies between projects in collaboration with project owners.
Identify potential risks and propose mitigation strategies to ensure successful execution.
Support decision-making for project selection, approval, and portfolio optimization.

Data platform development & standardization:
Select, develop, and maintain data platforms for extraction, reporting, and executive decision-making.
Standardize and unify data systems across sectors to ensure consistency in reporting and analysis.
Build and enhance centralized databases, including foundational structures such as charts of accounts.
Design and implement integrated platforms for annual planning, performance tracking, and reporting.
Develop key data quality and performance indicators to ensure reliability and accuracy of information.
Continuously improve data governance and platform integration across business units.

Annual planning & budget coordination:
Standardize annual planning templates and ensure consistent adoption across all business units.
Define timelines, submission requirements, and responsibilities for annual planning cycles.
Ensure all business units maintain updated and approved annual plans.
Monitor alignment of annual plans with strategic objectives and corporate priorities.

Annual plan performance monitoring & financial analysis:
Analyze performance deviations in annual plans using centralized data platforms.
Consolidate quarterly planning review outcomes and prepare executive reports.
Review organizational and sector-level performance reports and consolidated budgets.
Conduct financial and operational analysis at the sector level and provide actionable recommendations for improvement.
Support leadership in identifying efficiency opportunities and performance optimization 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 a 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 corrective action accordingly.
Provide periodic work progress reports.
Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve 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 automation 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 use 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

Bachelor degree in business management or any relevant field.

Work experience

6 to 10 years.

Technical / functional competencies

• Financial analysis
• Financial forecasting
• Business planning
• Business planning and simulation (BPS)
• Business planning and consolidation (BPC)