SMO Manager | alfanar Electric

alfanar; Riyadh; Sur place; SAR 360 000 - 600 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

alfanar is seeking a leader to head the Strategy Management Office (SMO) in Riyadh, aligning strategic plans with operational execution and ensuring governance, reporting, and performance management across departments. The role emphasizes strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, and continuous improvement to deliver tangible business results.

The candidate will oversee the development of corporate strategy, monitor progress through KPIs and dashboards, and coordinate with PMO and executive

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Business Administration or relevant field.
• 6–10 years of work experience in strategy or related roles.
• Experience leading Strategy Management Office and governance.

Responsabilités

• Lead SMO to develop and monitor the strategic plan and ensure alignment with objectives.
• Design performance management frameworks (KPIs, Balanced Scorecard).
• Prepare executive-level reports and dashboards on strategic progress.
• Oversee project portfolio alignment with corporate priorities.
• Engage stakeholders and communicate strategic goals across units.
• Drive continuous improvement and standardized governance.
• Ensure budgets and resources align with plans.

Connaissances

Advanced Planning and Scheduling

Business Planning

Business Planning and Consolidation (B

Business Planning and Simulation (BPS)

Strategic Planning

Formation

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or Any relevant field

Description du poste

Lead the Strategy Management Office (SMO) in developing, implementing, and monitoring the organization's strategic plan. Ensures alignment between strategic objectives and operational execution, supports performance management, and enables informed decision-making across departments. Ensure that the business plans align with alfanar electric strategy.

Key Accountability Areas

Job description

Job Purpose

Lead the Strategy Management Office (SMO) in developing, implementing, and monitoring the organization's strategic plan. Ensures alignment between strategic objectives and operational execution, supports performance management, and enables informed decision-making across departments. Ensure that the business plans align with alfanar electric strategy.

Strategic Planning & Alignment

• Coordinate with executive leadership to develop and periodically update the organization’s strategic plan.
• Lead strategic planning workshops and alignment sessions across departments.
• Ensure departmental plans and initiatives are fully aligned with overarching corporate objectives.

Performance Monitoring

• Design and implement corporate performance management frameworks, including KPIs and the Balanced Scorecard.
• Monitor and analyze the execution of strategic objectives, providing insights through regular performance reporting.
• Lead performance review sessions and propose corrective actions to address gaps.

Governance & Reporting

• Establish and maintain SMO governance frameworks, policies, and reporting standards.
• Prepare executive-level reports and dashboards to communicate strategic progress and performance.
• Manage documentation and version control for all strategic planning materials and updates.

Project & Initiative Oversight

• Contribute to the management of the strategic project portfolio, ensuring alignment with corporate priorities.
• Work closely with the PMO (if applicable) to monitor project timelines and deliverables.
• Assist in prioritizing initiatives based on strategic value, feasibility, and organizational impact.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Serve as a strategic liaison between senior leadership and various business units.
• Support the internal communication and dissemination of strategic goals and initiatives.
• Promote engagement and foster alignment among stakeholders to drive strategy execution.

Continuous Improvement

• Continuously benchmark and assess best practices in strategy management to enhance organizational effectiveness.
• Promote a culture of strategic thinking, performance accountability, and continuous improvement throughout the organization.

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 take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development

• 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 deployment.

Business Process Improvements

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek 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.

Adaptation

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration or Any relevant field

Work Experience

6 to 10 Years

Technical / Functional Competencies

Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) Business Planning Business Planning and Consolidation (BPC) Business Planning and Simulation (BPS) Strategic Planning

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