Local Content Section Manager | alfanar Electric

Requisition ID:16030 

CityProject Sales 

Group overview:

Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design & development centers and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.

alfanar is involved in:

• Electrical, Electromechanical and Civil Engineering Construction
• Manufacturing and Marketing Electrical Construction Products
• Allied Engineering Services

Our Main Divisions:

• alfanar electric
• alfanar Construction
• alfanar Building Systems

alfanar electric

alfanar electric is the industrial arm of alfanar, manufacturing a variety of low, medium and high voltage electrical construction products.

alfanar electric operates industries in:

• Riyadh and Jubail, Saudi Arabia
• Dubai, UAE
• London, UK

alfanar has a development and engineering center in Chennai, India.

Industrial Complex, Riyadh

The center of alfanar’s industrial activities is alfanar Industrial Complex situated in the Third Industrial Zone on Al-Kharj Road, Riyadh.

Spread across 700,000 square meters, the Complex houses alfanar’s facilities.

The Complex has a comprehensive infrastructure including a data and communication center as well as a commercial zone.

Job Purpose

Lead initiatives for local content requirements, overseeing progress, ensuring alignment with minimum scores, and engaging stakeholders. Develop plans for future requirements and coordinate with HR and Finance for enhanced activities. Contribute to alfanar Electric's success by achieving the required local content score.

Key Accountability Areas

Local Content Requirements Management:

• Oversee the implementation and management of local content initiatives across all business units.

  
  

• Monitor and report on the progress of local content implementation plans, ensuring alignment with committed local content scores.

  
  

• Ensure compliance with local content regulations and industry standards within business units.

  
  

Future Local Content Planning:

• Develop and implement plans for future local content requirements, forecasting changes and ensuring proactive strategies are in place.

  
  

• Collaborate with key stakeholders to identify potential local content opportunities and challenges.

  
  

Supporting Function Coordination:

• Coordinate with supporting functions, such as HR and Finance, to improve activities related to training, resource development, and other factors contributing to local content achievements.

  
  

• Work closely with these functions to ensure the overall local content score target is met across all relevant business units.

  
  

Stakeholder Management:

• Communicate progress, challenges, and recommendations related to local content to all relevant stakeholders.

  
  

• Provide guidance and support to business units to help them meet local content requirements.

  
  

Reporting and Documentation:

• Prepare and present periodic reports on local content progress, compliance status, and key developments to senior leadership.

  
  

• Ensure the documentation of local content initiatives and updates are accurate and up to date.

  
  

Continuous Improvement:

• Identify and recommend strategies for continuous improvement in local content management, aiming to exceed industry standards and regulatory requirements.

  
  

• Stay updated on industry best practices and regulations related to local content.

  
  

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 Electrical Engineering


Work Experience
6 to 10 Years


Technical / Functional Competencies
Analysis
Reporting