Corporate Strategy Management Manager

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Lead the development, execution, and governance of the company’s corporate strategy. Provide strategic direction supported by market intelligence, competitive analysis, and external insights to enable informed decision-making, organizational alignment, and sustainable growth.

Corporate Strategy Development

Lead the development and periodic review of the corporate strategy.

Define strategic objectives, priorities, initiatives, and long-term targets.

Ensure the strategy reflects organizational capabilities and external market conditions.

Strategic Planning & Execution

Lead annual and long-term strategic planning cycles.

Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, milestones, and performance measures.

Monitor strategy execution and address significant risks, gaps, and dependencies.

Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights

Guide research covering markets, industries, competitors, technologies, and emerging opportunities.

Ensure external developments are translated into strategic implications and recommendations.

Oversee scenario planning and assessments of potential opportunities and disruptions.

Strategic Studies & Decision Support

Lead growth, market-entry, diversification, partnership, and investment assessments.

Evaluate strategic options based on strategic fit, commercial potential, and risk.

Prepare executive reports, presentations, and recommendations to support key decisions.

Organizational Alignment & Governance

Ensure business unit strategies and plans align with corporate priorities.

Establish strategy management frameworks, methodologies, and governance processes.

Facilitate strategy discussions and alignment sessions with leadership and stakeholders.

Stakeholder & Team Management

Build strong relationships with senior leadership and business units.

Direct corporate strategy, market intelligence, and strategic insight activities.

Manage team priorities, resources, deliverables, performance, and capability development.

Process Improvement & Digitalization

Improve strategic planning, intelligence, monitoring, and reporting practices.

Leverage research platforms, analytics, digital tools, and AI to strengthen strategic decision support.

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.