Senior Specialist - Business Planning

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To support the development and execution of business planning activities by enhancing planning methodologies, coordinating plans and schedules, monitoring performance, and providing analytical insights to support effective decision-making and achievement of organizational objectives.

Business Planning Methodology & Tools:

• Contribute to the enhancement of 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 with organizational standards.
• 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.

Business Planning Execution & Coordination:

• Review project schedules, business plans, and related documentation to ensure alignment with organizational objectives, priorities, 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.

Reporting & Performance Monitoring:

• 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.

• Ability to obtain updated soft and technical skills related to the job.

Delivery:

• Perform the planned activities to meet the operational and development targets as per delivery schedules.
• Utilize resources effectively to achieve objectives within efficient cost and time.
• Provide a periodic report formatted by detailing the deviation and execution of planned tasks.

Problem-Solving:

• Solve any related problems arise and escalate any complex operational issues.

Quality:

• Ensure quality requirements to develop effective quality control and processes including specifications for products or processes or related activities.

Business Process Improvements:

• Coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.

Compliance:

• Comply to related policy and procedures and work instructions.

Health, Safety, and Environment:

• Ensure compliance of relevant safety, quality, and environmental management procedures and controls within defined area of work activity to guarantee safety, legislative compliance, and delivery of high-quality products/services.

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or Any relevant field