Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights Section Manager

About the Role

Alfanar is seeking a Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights Section Manager to join their team in Riyadh. This full-time role is responsible for establishing frameworks, methodologies, and intelligence processes to understand market dynamics, identify opportunities and risks, assess external factors, and translate market intelligence into actionable strategic insights that support decision-making and long-term growth.

Key Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain market intelligence frameworks, classifications, product classifications, and knowledge repositories.
• Assess market size, growth, attractiveness, customer segments, and emerging opportunities.
• Establish reliable intelligence sources and methods for validating and triangulating market information.
• Translate market developments into strategic implications and recommendations.
• Define competitor and benchmarking frameworks and maintain competitor intelligence.
• Build and maintain competitor positioning, industry value chains, and ecosystem dynamics.
• Identify competitive advantages, risks, and opportunities.
• Monitor economic, regulatory, technological, geopolitical, and industry developments.
• Build and maintain a technology and market trends radar, particularly for developments affecting electricity, energy, electrical products, infrastructure, and related industries.
• Lead market-entry, growth, diversification, partnership, and investment assessments.
• Evaluate opportunities based on market attractiveness, strategic fit, commercial potential, and risk.
• Convert market, competitor, and external intelligence into strategic insights, identifying key opportunities, threats, and strategic implications.
• Support executive decision-making through concise recommendations.
• Define and own the Market Intelligence and Strategic Insights roadmap, priorities, methodologies, and research agenda.
• Establish and continuously improve frameworks, tools, data sources, and monitoring mechanisms.

Role Responsibilities

• 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.
• Ensure fair treatment of subordinates without discrimination, basing assessments on performance and planned results.
• Take full responsibility for operations and deliverables in line with 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, making a tangible difference and exceeding business expectations.
• Transform corporate goals into business plans, then 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 and future requirements.
• Develop, coordinate, and document well-defined systems, policies, and procedures, seeking automation opportunities.
• Be conversant with and navigate IT solutions relevant to the job and business, promoting their full use.
• Act in accordance with Alfanar's commitment to quality as a prime competitive advantage.
• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Qualifications and Experience

• 5-10 years of relevant experience.
• Sufficient understanding of P&L, profitability, cost drivers, and investment economics to connect market conclusions with business implications.

Work Environment

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

Application Process

Candidates meeting the qualifications are encouraged to apply.