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Role Overview
Market Intelligence & Strategic Insights Section Manager at Alfanar. This is a full-time leadership role responsible for establishing frameworks, methodologies, and intelligence processes to understand market dynamics, identify opportunities and risks, assess external factors, and translate market intelligence into actionable strategic insights that support decision-making and long-term growth.
Role Purpose
Establish the frameworks, methodologies, and intelligence processes needed to understand market dynamics, identify opportunities and risks, assess external factors, and translate market intelligence into actionable strategic insights that support decision-making and long-term growth.
Key Responsibilities
Market & Industry Intelligence
- Develop and maintain market intelligence frameworks, classifications, product classifications, and knowledge repositories.
- Assess market size, growth, attractiveness, customer segments, and emerging opportunities.
- Establish reliable intelligence sources and methods for validating and triangulating market information.
- Translate market developments into strategic implications and recommendations.
Competitive & Benchmarking Intelligence
- Define competitor and benchmarking frameworks and maintain competitor intelligence.
- Build and maintain competitor positioning, industry value chains, and ecosystem dynamics.
- Identify competitive advantages, risks, and opportunities.
- Identify changes in industry structure or value chains that may affect future competitiveness.
Strategic Foresight & External Trends
- Monitor economic, regulatory, technological, geopolitical, and industry developments.
- Build and maintain a technology and market trends radar, particularly for developments affecting electricity, energy, electrical products, infrastructure, and related industries.
- Assess emerging technologies, trends, and disruption risks.
- Develop forward-looking scenarios to support strategic planning.
Strategic Studies & Opportunity Assessment
- Lead market-entry, growth, diversification, partnership, and investment assessments.
- Evaluate opportunities based on market attractiveness, strategic fit, commercial potential, and risk.
- Apply sufficient understanding of P&L, profitability, cost drivers, and investment economics to connect market conclusions with business implications.
- Provide actionable recommendations and decision support.
Strategic Insights & Decision Support
- Convert market, competitor, and external intelligence into strategic insights.
- Identify key opportunities, threats, and strategic implications.
- Support executive decision-making through concise recommendations.
Capability Development & Governance
- Define and own the Market Intelligence and Strategic Insights roadmap, priorities, methodologies, and research agenda.
- Establish and continuously improve frameworks, tools, data sources, and monitoring mechanisms.
- Build and mature the Market Intelligence capability, research approach, data sources, tools, and knowledge base.
- Establish mechanisms and appropriate cadences for continuous market, competitor, technology, and external-environment monitoring.
- Leverage research platforms, data analytics, digital tools, and AI to enhance intelligence gathering, analysis, synthesis, and monitoring.
People Leadership
- Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers to create a robust second line of management.
- Recognize low performers and guide them to improve or manage performance accordingly.
- Treat subordinates equally without discrimination.
- Base assessment of subordinates on performance criteria that lead to planned results.
- Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix with sufficient delegations as per company policy.
Operational Responsibility
- Take full responsibility for the operation as per job description and required deliverables, considering general company guidelines.
- Anticipate problems and take proactive steps to prevent them.
- Make necessary and proper timely decisions.
Business Planning & Performance
- Transform corporate goals into business plans.
- Plan, follow up, and execute annual and development plans.
- Monitor plan performance and initiate corrective action to strengthen results.
- Provide periodic work progress reports.
- Monitor and control budgets and expenses to achieve optimum cost efficiency.
Organizational Development
- Develop the organizational structure according to current requirements while considering future and development plans.
- Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.
Business Process Improvements
- Develop and coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, and procedures.
- Seek automation opportunities.
- Navigate IT solutions relevant to the role and business.
- Promote automated systems and their adoption throughout the section.
Quality & Adaptation
- Act as a steward of quality as Alfanar's prime competitive advantage.
- Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or relevant field.
- 6 to 10 years of work experience.
Skills & Competencies
- Business Planning.
- Project Management.
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