Senior Specialist Business Planning

About the Role

Alfanar is seeking a Senior Specialist Business Planning to join its team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This full-time role involves supporting the development and execution of business planning activities, enhancing planning methodologies, coordinating plans and schedules, monitoring performance, and providing analytical insights to facilitate effective decision-making and achieve organizational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Contribute to enhancing business planning methodologies, frameworks, tools, templates, and processes, ensuring alignment with organizational requirements and best practices.
• Evaluate planning practices and recommend improvements based on business needs, performance analysis, and stakeholder feedback.
• Maintain and refine planning documentation, templates, and reporting tools to promote consistency, accuracy, and compliance.
• Support the standardization of planning approaches across business units to improve planning effectiveness and reporting quality.
• Analyze planning outputs and identify opportunities to strengthen planning processes, methodologies, and governance practices.
• Review project schedules, business plans, and related documentation to ensure alignment with organizational objectives and approved requirements.
• Prepare, maintain, and update integrated project schedules, tracking key milestones, deliverables, dependencies, critical paths, and timelines.
• Perform schedule and planning analysis to identify risks, potential delays, resource constraints, and deviations from approved plans.
• Assess planning scenarios and provide recommendations to support informed decision-making and effective execution.
• Coordinate planning activities with relevant stakeholders to facilitate issue resolution and maintain alignment across projects and initiatives.
• Monitor the status of action items, commitments, and deliverables, ensuring timely follow-up and closure.
• Support cross-functional communication and information sharing to enhance planning transparency and execution effectiveness.
• Prepare and consolidate business planning reports, dashboards, presentations, and performance updates for management and stakeholders.
• Analyze project and business performance data from multiple sources to identify trends, variances, risks, and improvement opportunities.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date planning records, reports, and supporting documentation.
• Track and evaluate key performance indicators (KPIs) and planning metrics to support performance monitoring and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide planning insights and analytical findings to support business reviews and decision-making processes.

Role Accountabilities

• Obtain updated soft and technical skills relevant to the job.
• Perform planned activities to meet operational and development targets as per delivery schedules.
• Utilize resources effectively to achieve objectives within efficient cost and time.
• Provide periodic reports detailing deviations and execution of planned tasks.
• Solve related problems that arise and escalate complex operational issues.
• Ensure quality requirements to develop effective quality control and processes, including specifications for products, processes, or related activities.
• Coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automation opportunities.
• Comply with related policies, procedures, and work instructions.
• Ensure compliance with relevant safety, quality, and environmental management procedures and controls within the defined area of work activity.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in business planning or a related field. The salary for this position will be disclosed during the interview process.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The role requires collaboration with various stakeholders and business units to ensure planning effectiveness and alignment with organizational objectives.