Business Planning Manager

Job description

Job Purpose Responsible for leading the establishment, development, alignment, and execution of annual business plans for the assigned unit. Overseeing cross-functional committees, facilitating key meetings, and monitoring performance through dashboards and reporting tools. Ensures accurate documentation, timely follow-up on action items, and delivers strategic insights to support informed decision-making and drive successful business outcomes. Key Accountability Areas Business Plans Management: • Lead the coordination and execution of annual business planning activities, ensuring alignment with both technical and operational objectives. • Translate high-level business goals into actionable initiatives with clearly defined priorities, responsibilities, and timelines across multiple functions. • Oversee the review and validation of sales, resource, and financial budgets to ensure coherence with overall strategic plans through rigorous data analysis. • Guide and contribute to planning sessions by developing key materials and ensuring consistent alignment between technical and non-technical stakeholders. Business Plans Performance: • Collaborate with internal stakeholders to define and track performance indicators, providing analytical insights to measure progress against business targets. • Monitor plan execution, milestones, and outcomes, proactively identifying deviations and providing data-driven recommendations for corrective action. • Mitigate risks and identify opportunities to ensure the successful implementation of business plans. Committees Management: • Establish and oversee committee structures, charters, and governance frameworks to support cross-functional collaboration and accountability. • Manage end-to-end committee operations, including agenda setting, meeting facilitation, and formal documentation of outcomes and decisions. • Track and follow up on action items to ensure timely completion and transparency across teams. Reporting & Monitoring: • Develop and manage dashboards that visualize progress, performance, and KPIs to support real-time monitoring and decision-making. • Deliver performance reports and trend analyses to senior leadership, enabling informed, data-driven strategic actions. • Provide technical tools and reporting solutions to support committee oversight of strategic and operational initiatives. • Ensure the secure storage, compliance, and confidentiality of all business planning documents, reports, and meeting records in line with audit and regulatory standards. • Continuously review and enhance business planning tools, systems, and practices to drive efficiency and accuracy. 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 tak

Requirements

• business law
• assume responsibility for the management of a business
• integrate strategic foundation in daily performance
• conclude business agreements
• abide by business ethical code of conducts
• company policies

Skills