Analyst, Business Planning

About The Company

ADNOC Distribution is on a journey to change the retail landscape, delivering tangible actions to facilitate progress in providing sustainable mobility solutions for our customers. We are taking bold and transformative steps to grow our domestic and international footprint for our customers. We are customer-centric, offering digitally enabled journeys and providing innovative products and services to drive accelerated and sustainable development for the future of mobility. ADNOC Distribution markets, sells, and distributes transportation fuel to both retail and commercial customers. We also run non-fuel services at our service stations.

About The Job

Analyse all aspects of the Retail Group business performance data for the assigned market (results, plans, execution, design and organization) and provide comprehensive reports to support strategic management decision making and contribute to the achievement of continuous operational excellence within Retail Group.

Key Accountabilities

Analysis

• Collaborate with Retail Management to identify the business needs and understand the business processes in order to facilitate the effective development of required business solutions.
• Assist the business in defining initiatives, including defining their objective, conducting cost benefit analysis, determining operational feasibility studies etc. to facilitate the development of a comprehensive business case.
• Generate high quality periodic and ad hoc reports for line and senior management review and effective decision-making process.
  
  

Reporting

• Establish reports and insights, in line with strategy and guidelines, to capture most important findings ready for communication towards management.
• Prepare relevant materials for meetings and presentations, in line with the agreed-upon content to ensure that the information shared is relevant, correct and timely available.
  
  

Cost Control

• Monitor the financial performance of a given area of activity versus budgets so that areas of unsatisfactory performance are identified and rectified promptly, and potential performance improvement opportunities are capitalized upon.
• Develops standard procedures to manage and maintain business operational and financial objectives.
  
  

Process Optimization

• Identify and support business process improvements and efficiencies that support Retail group business performance, improve customer satisfaction and drive innovation and growth.
• Apply structured problem-solving efforts and track trends to identify barriers to effective and efficient performance and areas for possible optimization.
• Identify critical areas where there is a business need to execute improvement projects by supporting the Business Process Optimization Manager in facilitating sessions with relevant employees.
  
  

Planning

• Support operational planning for next year and roll out target of (sales, expansions, new concepts, new products, locations, regions, etc) based on data and analytics gathered.
  
  

External Market assessment

• Utilise the most appropriate inputs in terms of data/information, both internal and external. Identify gaps in data/information relevant to projects.
• Identify ways to analyse different market metrics and variable that can provide answers to current performance gaps or can inform decision makers on different drivers or derailers that can affect performance.
  
  

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Management or equivalent.
• At least 6 years of experience, experience in Retail is a plus
• Knowledge of business workflows, operations processes and systems.
• Innovative and conceptual thinking
• Communication and influencing skills
  
  

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