About this role
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Job Purpose
Lead the development, execution, and governance of the company’s corporate strategy. Provide strategic direction supported by market intelligence, competitive analysis, and external insights to enable informed decision-making, organizational alignment, and sustainable growth.
Key Accountability Areas
Corporate Strategy Development
- Lead the development and periodic review of the corporate strategy.
- Define strategic objectives, priorities, initiatives, and long-term targets.
- Ensure the strategy reflects organizational capabilities and external market conditions.
Strategic Planning & Execution
- Lead annual and long-term strategic planning cycles.
- Translate strategic priorities into actionable plans, milestones, and performance measures.
- Monitor strategy execution and address significant risks, gaps, and dependencies.
Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights
- Guide research covering markets, industries, competitors, technologies, and emerging opportunities.
- Ensure external developments are translated into strategic implications and recommendations.
- Oversee scenario planning and assessments of potential opportunities and disruptions.
Strategic Studies & Decision Support
- Lead growth, market-entry, diversification, partnership, and investment assessments.
- Evaluate strategic options based on strategic fit, commercial potential, and risk.
- Prepare executive reports, presentations, and recommendations to support key decisions.
Organizational Alignment & Governance
- Ensure business unit strategies and plans align with corporate priorities.
- Establish strategy management frameworks, methodologies, and governance processes.
- Facilitate strategy discussions and alignment sessions with leadership and stakeholders.
Stakeholder & Team Management
- Build strong relationships with senior leadership and business units.
- Direct corporate strategy, market intelligence, and strategic insight activities.
- Manage team priorities, resources, deliverables, performance, and capability development.
Process Improvement & Digitalization
- Improve strategic planning, intelligence, monitoring, and reporting practices.
- Leverage research platforms, analytics, digital tools, and AI to strengthen strategic decision support.
Role Accountability
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 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.
Academic Qualification
Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or Any relevant field
## Work Experience
10-15 years
## Technical / Functional Competencies
Business Planning Project Management