Corporate Strategy Management Manager

Role Overview

Corporate Strategy Management Manager at Alfanar. Lead 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.

Role Purpose

Lead the development, execution, and governance of corporate strategy to drive informed decision-making, organizational alignment, and sustainable growth through market intelligence, competitive analysis, and external insights.

Key Responsibilities

Corporate Strategy Development

• Lead development and periodic review of corporate strategy.
• Define strategic objectives, priorities, initiatives, and long-term targets.
• Ensure 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.
• Recruit, recognize, and cultivate high performers to build a robust second line of management.
• Recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Treat subordinates equally without discrimination.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix with sufficient delegations per company policy.

Process Improvement & Digitalization

• Improve strategic planning, intelligence, monitoring, and reporting practices.
• Leverage research platforms, analytics, digital tools, and AI to strengthen strategic decision support.
• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, and procedures, and seek automation opportunities.
• Promote automated systems and spread their culture across the organization.
• Navigate IT solutions relevant to the role and business.

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

Delivery & Impact

• Deliver required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Make tangible difference to area of operation and exceed business expectations.
• Take full responsibility for operations as per job description and required deliverables, considering general company guidelines.
• Anticipate problems and make necessary proactive steps to prevent them.
• Take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Quality & Continuous Adaptation

• Act as quality is 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 any relevant field.
• 10-15 years of work experience.

Skills & Competencies

• Business Planning.
• Project Management.