Business Planner

Responsibilities:

• Support in the corporate annual planning and budgeting processes, including regular business reviews long with defining the strategy and transformation roadmap for MBC.
• Responsible to ensure alignment between group strategic plans and business units.
• Create framework for growth measurement for MBC to increase reviews through the production channels.
• Conduct project analysis for major projects across various major regions in GCC and outside of GCC.
• Carry out operational analysis for various activities covering process improvement and spend analysis.
• Investment analysis and review return options and projections.
• Support in developing a project prioritization and follow up approach.
• Improve validity of statistical and financial/business analysis on company data centered activities.
• Support in the preparation of annual business operations plans and action plans.
• Continually review cost structures and operating models to identify areas of improvement (while highlighting implementation steps and challenges).
• Supervision of service level reporting and inputs into scorecard results across Group.
• Preparation of periodic reports for Executive Committee and the Board.
• Management reporting and financial projections (Development spending and tracking performance on spend).
• Facilitate setting up of annual business and action plans for all the business units.
• Project evaluation and support.
• Support the development of processes and structures of Group Services and work with cross functional departmental teams to improve workflows/communication.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5+ years of professional experience in a similar business/corporate environment.
• Preferred experience in industry – working closely with production houses, TV networks or broadcasting media.
• Holder of a degree in Business from a well reputed university (MBA is an advantage).
• Experience in successfully negotiating and closing deals.
• Fluency in English and Arabic
• Background in financial and business modeling.
• Highly numerate and analytical.
• Proven skills in conducting industry research and analysis.
• Organized and confident to work independently and efficiently under pressure.
• Must be a self-starter who will proactively look for ways to add value to the Company.
• Substantial value for ethics and trustworthy operations
• Must be able to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Must have previous experience working with senior management and stakeholders.

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.