Business Planning Manager

Apply now » Apply now Start apply with LinkedIn Apply Now Start Please wait... | Back to alfanar Business Planning Manager | alfanar Electric Description: . 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 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. Adap

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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. 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. 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. 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.