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About the Corporate Business Planning Manager Role

alfanar is seeking a Corporate Business Planning Manager to lead strategic planning, performance management, and annual planning processes. This full-time role, based in Riyadh, requires 5-10 years of experience and focuses on ensuring alignment across business units and enabling data-driven decision-making through standardized frameworks and integrated platforms.

Strategic Planning and Alignment

The Corporate Business Planning Manager will lead the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of corporate strategic objectives and plans. This includes cascading and aligning these objectives across the Group, ensuring consistency between all organizational strategies and the overall corporate strategy. The role also involves updating strategic plans in response to internal and external changes and evaluating strategic initiatives for alignment with long-term corporate goals.

Performance Management and Data Governance

This position oversees the collection, consolidation, and analysis of strategic performance evaluation results, ensuring timely coordination with KPI owners for accurate data submission. Responsibilities include analyzing performance results, preparing management reports, supporting KPI owners in identifying challenges, conducting root-cause analysis for underperforming KPIs, and monitoring corrective actions. The role also involves selecting, developing, and maintaining data platforms, standardizing data systems, building centralized databases, and designing integrated platforms for planning and reporting. Developing key data quality indicators and continuously improving data governance are also critical aspects.

Annual Planning and Project Prioritization

The manager will standardize annual planning templates, define timelines, and ensure consistent adoption across business units, monitoring alignment with strategic objectives. Additionally, the role involves managing the prioritization of strategic projects based on organizational goals and resource availability, analyzing interdependencies, identifying risks, and supporting decision-making for project selection and portfolio optimization.

Financial Analysis and Business Acumen

This role requires analyzing performance deviations in annual plans, consolidating quarterly review outcomes, and preparing executive reports. It includes reviewing organizational and sector-level performance reports and consolidated budgets, conducting financial and operational analysis at the sector level, and providing actionable recommendations. The manager will support leadership in identifying efficiency opportunities and performance optimization initiatives, transforming corporate goals into business plans, and monitoring their execution. Budget and expense control for optimum cost efficiency is also a key responsibility.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess a Bachelor's Degree in Business Management or a relevant field, with 6 to 10 years of work experience. Required technical and functional competencies include Financial Analysis, Financial Forecasting, Business Planning, Business Planning and Simulation (BPS), and Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC).