Business Planning Manager alfanar Electric📣 Job Ad

About the Role

Alfanar is seeking a Business Planning Manager to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role is responsible for leading the establishment, development, alignment, and execution of annual business plans for an assigned unit. The manager will oversee cross-functional committees, facilitate key meetings, and monitor performance through dashboards and reporting tools to ensure accurate documentation and timely follow-up on action items.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the coordination and execution of annual business planning activities, ensuring alignment with technical and operational objectives.
• Translate high-level business goals into actionable initiatives with defined priorities, responsibilities, and timelines across multiple functions.
• Oversee the review and validation of sales, resource, and financial budgets through rigorous data analysis to ensure coherence with strategic plans.
• Guide and contribute to planning sessions by developing key materials and ensuring consistent alignment between 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, 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 for real-time monitoring and decision-making.
• Deliver performance reports and trend analyses to senior leadership, enabling informed strategic actions.
• Provide technical tools and reporting solutions to support committee oversight of strategic and operational initiatives.
• Ensure secure storage, compliance, and confidentiality of all business planning documents, reports, and meeting records.
• Continuously review and enhance business planning tools, systems, and practices to drive efficiency and accuracy.

Role Accountabilities

• Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers to create a robust second line of management.
• Recognize low performers and guide them to improve or manage their release.
• Treat subordinates equally without discrimination, with performance as the primary assessment criterion.
• Ensure the availability of a delegation of authority matrix as per company policy.
• Take full responsibility for operations as per the job description and deliverables, adhering to company guidelines.
• Anticipate problems and take proactive steps to prevent them, making timely and proper decisions.
• Deliver required results in a timely manner with specified quality and cost.
• Make a tangible difference in the area of operation and exceed business expectations.
• Transform corporate goals into business plans, and plan, follow-up, and execute these plans.
• Monitor plan performance, initiate actions to strengthen results, and take corrective measures.
• Provide periodic work progress reports and control budgets and expenses for optimum cost efficiency.
• Develop the organizational structure according to current requirements, considering future and development plans.
• Ensure the availability of job descriptions for all job roles and their deployment.
• Develop and coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automation opportunities.
• Be conversant with and able to navigate IT solutions relevant to the job and business, promoting their full use.
• Uphold quality as Alfanar’s prime competitive advantage.
• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per standard regulations.

Qualifications and Experience

• Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience.

Work Type and Location

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.