Head of Planning & Performance Management

Job description / Role

Head of Planning & Performance Management

Industry: Insurance

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic and Business Planning
- Drives strategic and business planning processes across the organisation.
- Integrates and incorporates planning activities such as budgeting, manpower, capital expenditure and capital planning.
- Formulates comprehensive business strategy.
- Alignment of strategy with capital plan and communication plan.
- Incorporates strategic initiatives in the planning process with appropriate description.
- Compiles strategic direction and business plan documents.

Strategy Execution
- To develop strategy management framework based on Balanced Scorecard.
- Actively manages strategy execution process across organization with focus on key strategic work streams/initiatives, monitor strategic target achievements with scorecard based strategy map, as well as prioritize and coordinate key market / Operating entities / strategic projects.
- Responsible for reporting, analyzing and communicating strategy execution results throughout the organisation using dashboards and appropriate KPIs.
- Oversees Program Management Office end ensures that program and project management best practices are implemented.

Business and Market Analysis
- Prepares strategic analysis, market, competitive and feasibility studies.
- Provides effective management to a team, ensuring continuous improvement in service delivery.
- Develops Market and Business Intelligence framework by utilizing industry’s best practices.
- Oversees Research and Development activities assigned by Executive Management.

Management
- Assumes responsibility for the effective performance of all PPM Department functions.
- Sets the Department’s overall policies, planning & budget.
- Supervises and drives development of appropriate administrative communication tools.
- Achieves financial objectives by anticipating requirements; submitting information for budget preparation; scheduling expenditures; monitoring costs; analyzing variances.
- Implements proper housekeeping and makes sure internal procedures and directives are adhered to
- Manages work schedules for all team members.
- Demonstrates personal commitment to continuous self-development and service improvement.

Requirements

- 10 – 15 years’ progressive experience including minimum 3 years in strategy management role.
- Bachelor Degree (MBA is an advantage).
- Professional qualification in insurance or risk or project management or similar.

About the Company

Human Capital House was set up in the year 2013 with a vision to be a progressive talent acquisition partner for organizations within the local and regional market in the Middle East.

As international markets get ever demanding, corporations globally are presented with the challenges of attracting the right talent. Human capital retention and recruitment remain a critical factor to the success of any company. Strategic decision to recruit the right talent is a key issue to organization as wrong candidate selection can potentially be disastrous to their efficiency.

The critical aspect of choosing the right individual with the apt experience and knowledge becomes more crucial as he/she would need to share the ambitions of the employer, while fitting in to the new culture. Human Capital House has both the experience and expertise to help its clients make the right choice of selection. From understanding client requirements, through identifying and assessing the candidates, our systematic approach strives to ensure successful executive recruitment.