Business Planning Section Manger

Job description: Job Purpose

To align business goals with strategic initiatives, monitoring progress, and making necessary adjustments to ensure the organization stays on track that gives thereby enhancing oversight the achievement of company strategies and operational excellence.

Key Accountability Areas

Strategy & Formalization Management:

• Prepare the primary template of annual business plan for business & service units.
• Formalizing meeting’s agenda including committees and working groups criteria activation.
• Review and authorize the MOMs after the meetings.
• Review and present meeting’s minutes and pending or due actions with Business planning & Development Manager and the top management.
• Ensure uploading, publishing, and archiving meetings’ agenda, meeting’s minutes with supported files/documents.

Project and Business Plan Tracking:

• Ensure Flowing-up for the consistency and tracking the progress of projects and annual business plans.
• Ensure track and report the progress of approved plans and projects in terms of timeline and accuracy.
• Ensure applying follow the required modifications to annual business plans to proceed for final approval.
• Managing Achievement for the approved annual plan as soft & hard copy.

Reporting and Dashboards:

• Monitoring dashboards for all activities related to business and service units.
• Analyse & create a monthly report to the management for each business or services unit.
• Provide supportive ideas to develop sales, operations, and financial reports with related tools and mechanisms, to effectively monitor.

Task and Decision Management:

• Registering and presenting the tasks/decisions.
• Review, follow up, and update the status of actions taken.
• Intervening in case of departmental cross plans and solve conflicts between departments during planes execution.

Working Groups and Committees activation:

• Study, Propose and establish different working groups between correlated parties to control consistent processes and results.
• Set an initial calendar for reviewing & evaluating the annual business plans with the related committee or top management.
• Preparation and publishing of internal special tasks, projects and committees’ activation memos.

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 Bachelor Degree in Business Administration Work Experience 6 to 10 Years Technical / Functional Competencies Project Communications Project Coordination Project Cost Management Project Management Methodology Project Planning Project Quality Assurance Project Scheduling Project Tracking and Reporting Profile description:

Alfanar is a Saudi company with an international presence, primarily engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a wide variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical products, in addition to its portfolio of conventional and renewable energy solutions, oil and gas, water treatment, infrastructure, technical services, and digital solutions.

The hub of alfanar’s manufacturing operations is Medinet alfanar Alsinaiya, a 700,000 square-meter complex located in Riyadh. The complex houses an array of ultra-modern manufacturing facilities and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and staffed with highly skilled professionals.

alfanar derives its success from its commitment to providing the highest quality standards to its customers, and the continuous development of its human capital, who alfanar considers its most valuable asset. With this in mind, alfanar promotes a proactive work environment where its employees are always valued, nurtured, and empowered to fuel their pride in being part of alfanar.

For more information about alfanar, please visit alfanar.com