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Job description / Role
Reporting to the Corporate Development Manager, the Corporate Planner will join a dynamic team that works for the Corporate Planning and PMO unit.
Responsibilities:
Annual planning and budgeting
• Support in the Group’s corporate annual planning and budgeting processes, including regular business reviews
• Responsible to ensure alignment between group strategic plans and business units
Project analysis and prioritization
• Conduct project analysis for major projects
• Carry out operational analysis for various activities covering process improvement and spend analysis
• Support in developing a project prioritization and follow up approach in coordination with the group’s PMO
• Improve validity of statistical and financial/business analysis on company data centered activities
Operations reporting and follow up
• Support in the preparation of annual business operations plans and action plans
• Continually review cost structures and operating models to identify areas of improvement (while highlighting implementation steps and challenges)
• Align with Technical operations and relevant business units to develop and follow up on quality measurement ratios and KPIs
Corporate Communications
• Work closely with HR department to support on all corporate and project communications
Requirements
• Minimum 5-6 years of professional experience in a similar business/corporate environment
• Holder of a degree in Business from a well reputed university (MBA is an advantage)
• Fluency in English and Arabic
• Background in financial and business modeling
• Highly numerate and analytic
• Proven skills in conducting industry research and analysis
• Organized and confident to work independently and efficiently under pressure
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.