Senior Manager - Planning and Control

About the role

Botanica, a subsidiary of Red Sea Global, is looking for a Senior Manager - Planning and Control. The role acts as the single point of control for planning, performance and transformation, owning the integrated business plan, the KPI scorecard, cost and variance control with Finance, the risk register and the portfolio of strategic initiatives.

Key responsibilities

• Coordinate the annual business plan and budget calendar with Finance and all departments, and maintain the planning assumptions register.
• Run the portfolio of strategic initiatives with governance, schedules and stage gates, prepare and challenge business cases, and maintain decision and action logs.
• Run monthly business unit reviews on revenue, margin, cost, productivity and service KPIs, and highlight under-performing streams.
• Run the monthly S&OP cycle (demand, supply and capacity, cost and cash) and lead capacity, manpower and logistics/dispatch planning.
• Design the KPI framework, produce monthly performance packs and dashboards, and facilitate monthly performance reviews.
• Track actual versus plan costs by cost center and contract, analyse variances and maintain cost-to-complete forecasts.
• Maintain the risk register and RAID log, prepare board papers and GCEO presentation packs, and manage the initiative and capex portfolio.
• Lead the Planning & Performance and Control sections (9 FTE) and deliver the fixed responsibilities of a Department Head.
• Enforce policies, delegation of authority and standard operating procedures, and champion the ISO 9001, 14001, 45001 and 37301 management systems.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Supply Chain or Finance; PMP, PgMP or MSP preferred.
• At least 10 years in planning, project controls or PMO roles, including at least 5 years leading a PMO.
• Proven experience in business planning, performance management and transformation programmes in multi-business-unit organizations.
• Fluent English; Arabic preferred.

Required skills

• Programme governance, scheduling (Primavera P6 / MS Project) and stage-gate management.
• Financial modelling, variance analysis and KPI design.
• Data visualization and reporting (Excel, Power BI or equivalent).
• Executive reporting and facilitation.