Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights Section Manager

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Description:

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Establish the frameworks, methodologies, and intelligence processes needed 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.

Market & Industry Intelligence

• 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.

Competitive & Benchmarking Intelligence

• 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.
• Identify changes in industry structure or value chains that may affect future competitiveness.

Strategic Foresight & External Trends

• 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.
• Assess emerging technologies, trends, and disruption risks.
• Develop forward-looking scenarios to support strategic planning.

Strategic Studies & Opportunity Assessment

• Lead market-entry, growth, diversification, partnership, and investment assessments.
• Evaluate opportunities based on market attractiveness, strategic fit, commercial potential, and risk.
• Apply sufficient understanding of P&L, profitability, cost drivers, and investment economics to connect market conclusions with business implications, without positioning the role as a financial-analysis function.
• Provide actionable recommendations and decision support.

Strategic Insights & Decision Support

• Convert market, competitor, and external intelligence into strategic insights.
• Identify key opportunities, threats, and strategic implications.
• Support executive decision-making through concise recommendations.

Capability Development & Governance

• 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.
• Build and mature the Market Intelligence capability, research approach, data sources, tools, and knowledge base.
• Establish mechanisms and appropriate cadences for continuous market, competitor, technology, and external-environment monitoring.
• Leverage research platforms, data analytics, digital tools, and AI to enhance intelligence gathering, analysis, synthesis, and monitoring.

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…