Business Planning Manager

Job purpose

Responsible for leading the establishment, development, alignment, and execution of annual business plans for the assigned unit. Overseeing cross-functional committees, facilitating key meetings, and monitoring performance through dashboards and reporting tools. Ensures accurate documentation, timely follow-up on action items, and delivers strategic insights to support informed decision-making and drive successful business outcomes.

Key accountability areas

Business plans management:

• Lead the coordination and execution of annual business planning activities, ensuring alignment with both technical and operational objectives.
• Translate high-level business goals into actionable initiatives with clearly defined priorities, responsibilities, and timelines across multiple functions.
• Oversee the review and validation of sales, resource, and financial budgets to ensure coherence with overall strategic plans through rigorous data analysis.
• Guide and contribute to planning sessions by developing key materials and ensuring consistent alignment between technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Business plans performance:

• Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define and track performance indicators, providing analytical insights to measure progress against business targets.
• Monitor plan execution, milestones, and outcomes, proactively identifying deviations and providing data-driven recommendations for corrective action.
• Mitigate risks and identify opportunities to ensure the successful implementation of business plans.

Committees management:

• Establish and oversee committee structures, charters, and governance frameworks to support cross-functional collaboration and accountability.
• Manage end-to-end committee operations, including agenda setting, meeting facilitation, and formal documentation of outcomes and decisions.
• Track and follow up on action items to ensure timely completion and transparency across teams.

Reporting & monitoring:

• Develop and manage dashboards that visualize progress, performance, and KPIs to support real-time monitoring and decision-making.
• Deliver performance reports and trend analyses to senior leadership, enabling informed, data-driven strategic actions.
• Provide technical tools and reporting solutions to support committee oversight of strategic and operational initiatives.
• Ensure the secure storage, compliance, and confidentiality of all business planning documents, reports, and meeting records in line with audit and regulatory standards.
• Continuously review and enhance business planning tools, systems, and practices to drive efficiency and accuracy.

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 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 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 or any relevant field.

Work experience

6 to 10 years

Technical / functional competencies

• Advanced planning and scheduling (APS)
• Business planning
• Business planning and consolidation (BPC)
• Business planning and simulation (BPS)