Corporate Business Planning Manager
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About the Role
Alfanar seeks a Corporate Business Planning Manager to lead strategic planning, performance management, and annual planning processes across the group. The role involves developing strategic objectives, managing KPI governance, prioritizing projects, and standardizing data platforms.
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Responsibilities
- 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
- Oversee the collection, consolidation, and analysis of strategic performance evaluation results
- Manage the prioritization of strategic projects based on organizational goals, resource availability, and constraints
- Select, develop, and maintain data platforms for extraction, reporting, and executive decision making
- Standardize annual planning templates and ensure consistent adoption across all business units
- Analyze performance deviations in annual plans using centralized data platforms and prepare executive reports
Requirements
- Bachelor Degree in Business Management or any relevant field
- 6 to 10 years of work experience in business planning, financial analysis, or related areas
- Technical competencies in Financial Analysis, Financial Forecasting, Business Planning, Business Planning and Simulation (BPS), Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)
- Experience in leading strategic planning and performance management processes
- Ability to manage data platform development and standardization
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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.
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.
Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree in Business Management or any relevant field.
- 6 to 10 Years of work experience.
- Technical / Functional Competencies: Financial Analysis, Financial Forecasting, Business Planning, Business Planning and Simulation (BPS), Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC).
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