SAP BW & Analytics Services Team Lead

Alfanar Group; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Alfanar Group is seeking a senior leader to drive and execute enterprise data and analytics initiatives in Saudi Arabia. You will oversee BI, analytics, and data infrastructure teams to deliver integrated insights that align with business goals.

Responsibilities include defining data strategy, governing data warehouses and lakes, and translating complex data concepts for executives. A data-driven culture and innovation in analytics will be fostered across units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 6–10 years in data/analytics leadership roles.
• Experience aligning data initiatives with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise data and analytics strategy and teams.
• Oversee dashboards, reports, and visualizations for actionable insights.
• Govern data warehouses and data lakes with governance and security.
• Engage stakeholders to align data initiatives with business priorities.

Skills

Data Strategy

Leadership

Stakeholder Mgmt

Education

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Power BI

Data Warehousing

Cloud Data Platforms

Job description

Job description

Job Purpose

Leads delivery and execution of enterprise data and analytics solutions, overseeing BI, analytics, and data infrastructure teams to deliver accurate, integrated insights and align data initiatives with business goals.

Key Accountability Areas

Strategic Leadership in Data & Analytics

• Define and drive the overall data and analytics strategy aligned with the organization's vision, mission, and strategic objectives.
• Lead the development and execution of enterprise-wide data initiatives, ensuring integration across BI, analytics, and data infrastructure functions.
• Champion a data-driven culture by promoting the use of analytics in decision-making across business units.

Oversight of BI, Analytics, and Data Infrastructure

• Oversee the design, development, and delivery of dashboards, reports, and visualizations that provide actionable insights.
• Guide the development of advanced analytics models and ensure their alignment with business needs.
• Ensure robust architecture and governance of data warehouses and data lakes to support scalable and secure data operations.

Stakeholder Engagement and Collaboration

• Act as the primary liaison between the data & analytics function and business stakeholders to ensure alignment of data initiatives with business priorities.
• Translate complex data concepts into business-friendly language to support executive decision-making.

Innovation and Technology Enablement

• Evaluate and implement emerging technologies and tools to enhance data capabilities across the organization.
• Foster innovation by encouraging experimentation with new data methodologies, tools, and platforms.

Data Governance and Quality Assurance

• Establish and enforce data governance frameworks, policies, and standards to ensure data integrity, security, and compliance.
• Monitor data quality across systems and lead initiatives to improve data accuracy and reliability.

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.
• 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.
• 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 deploy them.
• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seeking 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.

Academic QualificationBachelor Degree in Computer Science or Any relevant field Work Experience6 to 10 Years Technical / Functional CompetenciesBusiness Analysis Big Data Analytics Data Mining

Profile description

Alfanar is a Saudi company with an international presence, primarily engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a wide variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical products, in addition to its portfolio of conventional and renewable energy solutions, oil and gas, water treatment, infrastructure, technical services, and digital solutions.

The hub of alfanar's manufacturing operations is Medinet alfanar Alsinaiya, a 700,000 square-meter complex located in Riyadh. The complex houses an array of ultra-modern manufacturing facilities and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and staffed with highly skilled professionals.

alfanar derives its success from its commitment to providing the highest quality standards to its customers, and the continuous development of its human capital, who alfanar considers its most valuable asset. With this in mind, alfanar promotes a proactive work environment where its employees are always valued, nurtured, and empowered to fuel their pride in being part of alfanar.

For more information about alfanar, please visit alfanar.com