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Job description / Role
Business Planner, Content Commissioning Unit (CCU)
MBC company is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Business Planner to join its Content Commissioning Unit. The successful candidate will be responsible for creating, implementing and monitoring business plans for the unit, documenting and optimizing processes, and ensuring that goals are met and objectives are achieved.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate current business processes and identify areas for improvement.
- Document all processes, creating detailed step-by-step guides and procedures to ensure that they can be easily followed and understood by all employees.
- Collaborate with department managers and other stakeholders to ensure that new processes are effectively integrated into the company's operations.
- Develop and implement business plans to achieve department goals and objectives.
- Assist the team in other internal functions such content performance review processes., strategic planning, metadata, compliance, content policy, etc....
- Manage the financial aspects of the content commissioning unit, including budgeting, forecasting, and reporting on performance.
- Monitor the performance of commissioned content and identify opportunities for improvement or potential areas for expansion.
- Document Business requirements for automation and content data governance initiatives and ensure their implementation.
- Prepare feasibility studies for projects with ability to manage them through implementation (Project Management).
- To ensure that procedures and policies are followed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, media, Finance, Management or a related field.
- A minimum of 5 years' experience in a similar role in the media industry.
- Strong process improvement skills, with experience in optimizing business processes.
- Excellent documentation skills, with experience creating detailed step-by-step guides and procedures.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
- Strong business acumen and financial management skills.
- Exposure to a multi-National Business environment with Experience in ERP environment would be highly preferable.
- Proficiency in the following: Word, Excel, MS Projects, Outlook, PowerPoint and Visio.
- Background in financial and operational business modeling.
About the Company
MBC GROUP is the largest media company in the Middle East & North Africa region that enriches people’s lives through information, interaction and entertainment. In 2002, nearly a decade after the launch of MBC1 in London, in 1991, MBC GROUP moved its headquarters to Dubai Media City, United Arab Emirates.
Today, MBC GROUP includes over 17 leading TV channels: MBC1 (general family entertainment); MBC2 & MBC MAX (24-hour western movies); MBC3 (children’s edutainment with a mix of both local productions and western acquisitions); MBC4 (entertainment for young families with a female-focus); MBC ACTION (an indigenous adrenaline-packed channel targeting young males with local and homegrown productions); MBC VARIETY (Western films and general entertainment with uninterrupted broadcasting); MBC DRAMA (24/7 Arabic drama) & MBC+ DRAMA (a joint pay-TV channel between MBC and OSN); MBC PERSIA (general family entertainment dubbed and subtitled in Farsi); WANASAH (24-hour Arabic music channel); MBC MASR & MBC MASR2 (general family entertainment geared towards the Egyptian family); MBC BOLLYWOOD (delivering the freshest in Bollywood content geared towards the region via an Arabized interface); MBC USA (on “Dish Network” in the US); MBC IRAQ (a premium channel aimed at the entire Iraqi family), MBC5 (new satellite channel dedicated to the Maghreb); all of them benefit from MBC STUDIOS which produces the region’s most compelling premium content for cinema, television and on-demand platforms. MBC GROUP also includes two FM radio stations: MBC FM (Gulf music) and Panorama FM (contemporary Arabic hit music).
Furthermore, part of MBC GROUP is Shahid and its premium subscription-based service Shahid VIP, the world’s leading Arabic streaming platform, home to highly rated original productions from the Arab world, a wide range of exclusive movies and premieres, as well as the top watched live Arab TV channels.