SMO Manager

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Lead the Strategy Management Office (SMO) in developing, implementing, and monitoring the organization's strategic plan. Ensures alignment between strategic objectives and operational execution, supports performance management, and enables informed decision-making across departments. Ensure that the business plans align with alfanar electric strategy.

Strategic Planning & Alignment:

• Coordinate with executive leadership to develop and periodically update the organization’s strategic plan.
• Lead strategic planning workshops and alignment sessions across departments.
• Ensure departmental plans and initiatives are fully aligned with overarching corporate objectives.

Performance Monitoring:

• Design and implement corporate performance management frameworks, including KPIs and the Balanced Scorecard.
• Monitor and analyze the execution of strategic objectives, providing insights through regular performance reporting.
• Lead performance review sessions and propose corrective actions to address gaps.

Governance & Reporting:

• Establish and maintain SMO governance frameworks, policies, and reporting standards.
• Prepare executive-level reports and dashboards to communicate strategic progress and performance.
• Manage documentation and version control for all strategic planning materials and updates.

Project & Initiative Oversight:

• Contribute to the management of the strategic project portfolio, ensuring alignment with corporate priorities.
• Work closely with the PMO (if applicable) to monitor project timelines and deliverables.
• Assist in prioritizing initiatives based on strategic value, feasibility, and organizational impact.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a strategic liaison between senior leadership and various business units.
• Support the internal communication and dissemination of strategic goals and initiatives.
• Promote engagement and foster alignment among stakeholders to drive strategy execution.
• Continuously benchmark and assess best practices in strategy management to enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Promote a culture of strategic thinking, performance accountability, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.

• 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 execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or Any relevant field

6 to 10 Years

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)

Business Planning

Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC)