Business Planning Manager

Job Description

<p><strong>Responsibilities:</strong></p><p><br></p><p><strong>- Annual planning and budgeting</strong></p><ul><li>Support in the Group’s corporate annual planning and budgeting processes, including regular business reviews.</li><li>Responsible to ensure alignment between group strategic plans and business units.</li><li>Create framework for growth measurement</li></ul><p><strong>- Project analysis and prioritization</strong></p><ul><li>Conduct project analysis for major projects.</li><li>Carry out operational analysis for various activities covering process improvement and spend analysis.</li><li>Work with stakeholders on the development of Green Light Pack (in accordance with the norms of the industry and best practices)</li><li>Investment analysis on big/mega budget movies to review return options and projections.</li></ul><p><strong>- Implementation planning for strategic initiatives for the group</strong></p><ul><li>Support in developing a project prioritization and follow up approach.</li><li>Improve validity of statistical and financial/business analysis on company data centered activities.</li></ul><p><strong>- Operations reporting and follow up</strong></p><ul><li>Support in the preparation of annual business operations plans and action plans.</li><li>Continually review cost structures and operating models to identify areas of improvement (while highlighting implementation steps and challenges)</li><li>Supervision of service level reporting and inputs into scorecard results across Group</li><li>Preparation of periodic reports for Executive Committee and the Board </li><li>Management reporting and financial projections (Development spending and tracking performance on spend)</li><li>Prepare and analyze tax credit reports to ensure we are up to speed with the filings and status.</li></ul><p><strong> – Group Projects</strong></p><ul><li>Facilitate setting up of annual business and action plans for all the business units.</li><li>Project evaluation and support</li><li>Support the development of processes and structures of Group Services and work with cross functional departmental teams to improve workflows/communication.</li></ul><p> </p><p><br></p><p><strong>Requirements:</strong></p><p><strong><span class=”ql-cursor”> </span></strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Minimum 6+ years of professional experience in a similar business/corporate environment</li><li>Preferred experience in industry – working closely with production houses, TV networks or broadcasting media</li><li>Holder of a MBA in Business from a well reputed university</li><li>Experience in successfully negotiating and closing deals</li><li>Fluency in English and Arabic (an added advantage)</li><li>Background in financial and business modeling </li><li>Highly numerate and analytical</li><li>Proven skills in conducting industry research and analysis</li><li>Organized and confident to work independently and efficiently under pressure </li></ul><p><br></p><p><u>Unfortunately, due to the high number of responses we receive we are unable to provide feedback to all applicants. If you have not been contacted within 5-7 days, please assume that at this stage your application has been unsuccessful.</u></p>