Commercial Planning and Reporting Sr. Specialist

Job description / Role

Role Summary:
Responsible of preparing all periodic reports with all information that compile and issued to internal and external sources, and ensuring accurate reporting throughout alignment with various departments and managements. On the other hand responsible of preparing operational budgeting cycle & Rolling FC Reports.

Duties & Responsibilities:
- Manage and submit Strategic plans modules and presentations, including the annual operational plan, communicate to each commercial function with all clarifications needed and tacking all actions needed to achieve company goals and all of the other critical elements developed during the plan exercise with produce a workable plan.
- Roll forecast 3+12 FC, 6+12 FC, 9+3FC, utilize forecasting to determine how to allocate the budget or plan either for revenue or expenses for an upcoming period of time.
- Prepare the operational budgeting cycle, and develop Annual Operation Plan and provide input to the budgeting process.
- Prepare weekly, monthly, and annual reports to ensure adherence to the Marketing Operating budget.
- Keep control on marketing KPI's through monthly GAP analysis Actual vs. Budget with Main KPIs report focusing mainly on revenue performance vs budget and vs rolling forecast with all needed analysis in order to make appropriate decision in proper time.
- Manage commercial reporting consolidation to the Ooredoo Group including Q review, BOD reports, annual reports, etc…)
- Manage commercial sections reporting for external reports (MTIT, ITU and External Auditor reports).
- Proactive follow up of commercial roadmap and assigned tasks, to ensure on target performance and raised any expected deviation.
- Support formulating strategies that result in a positive financial impact for OP and mitigates financial and operational risks
- Develop OPEX and market penetration targets and budgets in order to run Marketing operations.
- Direct and manage projects programs (e.g. progress reporting, follow-up and issue resolution) and synchronization of Marketing projects to optimize performance and capacity
- Review and validate business cases for commercial offers and promotions, provide inputs and recommendations to the review of existing products and services.
- Provide input and recommendations on effective time-limited promotions and discounts on existing and new products and services.
- Represent Marketing department in Risk Management committee, and manage all material and analysis needed.
- Follow up the Roadmap & CAT meetings actions implementation progress, provide supporting materials needed and prepare periodic detailed progress reports and submit to CEO.
- Manage monthly revenue reconciliation and discussion with finance department in order to unify revenue services Map, make sure of unified and consistent definition per revenue stream, and follow up on gap analysis needed.
- Manage and conduct marketing achievement evaluation per function including scorecard evaluation

Requirements

Skills:
- Minimum 5-6 years of work experience marketing & business environment.
- Knowledge/experience in planning & reporting.
- Bachelor degree in Marketing, Economics, Finance, or equivalent.

About the Company

We are a leading international communications company delivering mobile, fixed, broadband internet, and corporate managed services tailored to the needs of consumers and businesses across markets in the Middle East, North Africa and Southeast Asia. As a community-focused company, we are guided by our vision of enriching peoples lives and our belief that we can stimulate human growth by leveraging communications to help people achieve their full potential.

Formerly known as Qtel Group, we have a customer base of 92.9 million and reported revenues of USD 9.3 billion in 2012.