Corporate Business Planning Section Manager

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Description:

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To support the execution of corporate strategic planning, performance management, and annual planning processes by coordinating alignment across business units, ensuring accurate KPI reporting, and contributing to data-driven decision-making through standardized planning, reporting, and performance analysis frameworks.

Strategic Planning & Alignment:

• Lead support activities for developing and updating corporate strategic objectives and plans.
• Coordinate the cascading and alignment of strategic objectives across sectors and business units.
• Ensure alignment and consistency between business unit strategies and corporate direction.
• Review and track updates to strategic plans based on internal and external changes.
• Participate in evaluating strategic initiatives and alignment with corporate goals.

Performance Management & KPI Governance:

• Manage the coordination of KPI data collection and consolidation from relevant stakeholders.
• Ensure timely and accurate submission of performance data from KPI owners.
• Lead preparation of periodic performance reports in line with approved methodologies.
• Oversee support provided to KPI owners in identifying performance gaps and issues.
• Manage root-cause analysis (RCA) activities for underperforming KPIs and recommend improvements.
• Track implementation of corrective actions and KPI performance progress.

Project Prioritization & Portfolio Support:

• Coordinate the prioritization of strategic projects in line with organizational objectives.
• Oversee analysis of project dependencies in collaboration with stakeholders.
• Manage identification of risks and support mitigation planning.
• Support project evaluation and portfolio review activities.

Data Platform Development & Standardization:

• Oversee support for implementation and maintenance of data platforms for reporting and decision‑making.
• Lead efforts to standardize data systems across sectors to ensure consistent reporting.
• Coordinate development of centralized databases and core data structures.
• Support design and enhancement of integrated planning and performance platforms.
• Define and monitor data quality and performance indicators.
• Promote data governance and system integration across business units.

Annual Planning & Budget Coordination:

• Lead coordination of annual planning processes and template standardization.
• Manage planning timelines and ensure adherence to submission requirements.
• Ensure all business units maintain updated and aligned annual plans.
• Oversee alignment of annual plans with corporate strategy and priorities.

Annual Plan Performance Monitoring & Financial Analysis:

• Lead analysis of annual plan performance deviations using centralized data platforms.
• Oversee consolidation of quarterly performance reviews and reporting outputs.
• Manage review of performance reports and consolidated budgets.
• Coordinate sector‑level financial and operational analysis.
• Recommend efficiency and performance improvement initiatives.

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…