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Job Purpose
Responsible for overseeing and managing the IT demands planning section within an organization. Ensuring that the IT demands of the organization are effectively planned, prioritized, and executed aligned with business objectives, ultimately contributing to the overall success of the organization.
Responsible for overseeing and managing the IT demands planning section within an organization. Ensuring that the IT demands of the organization are effectively planned, prioritized, and executed aligned with business objectives, ultimately contributing to the overall success of the organization.
Key Accountability Areas
Strategic Planning:
Developing and implementing a strategic plan for IT demands planning.
Aligning with the organization’s overall IT strategy.
Demand Management:
Managing and prioritizing the IT demands from various business units.
Ensuring that resources are allocated appropriately to meet business needs.
Resource Allocation:
Collaborating with IT teams and stakeholders to determine the necessary resources, such as budget, personnel, and equipment, required to fulfill IT demands.
Project Management:
Overseeing the planning, execution, and monitoring of IT projects.
Ensure that the projects are delivered within scope, budget, and timeline.
Stakeholder Engagement:
Collaborating with key stakeholders, including business unit leaders, IT teams, and senior management, to understand their IT demands.
Ensure the alignment with organizational goals.
Supply Chain Coordination:
Coordinate with procurement and production teams to ensure timely availability of materials and finished goods.
Optimize inventory levels to minimize costs while meeting demand.
Performance Monitoring and Reporting:
Tracking and analyzing the performance of IT demands planning initiatives.
Generate regular reports for management, highlighting areas for improvement and implementing corrective actions as needed.
Risk Management:
Identify potential risks (such as supply shortages, demand fluctuations, or production delays) and develop contingency plans.
Mitigate risks by adjusting inventory levels or collaborating with suppliers.
Team Leadership:
Managing and developing a team of IT professionals, providing guidance, mentoring, and support to ensure their success in meeting the organization’s IT demands.
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 a 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 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 automation 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
Change Management, Inventory Management, Planning
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