Manager Business Planning

Department & Function: Marketing

Position: Manager Business Planning

Location: Islamabad

Reporting to: Deputy Director Business Planning, Pricing & Geo Marketing

Job Type: Permanent

Job Purpose:

• The position plays a pivotal role in developing and executing the business strategy to support the company's long-term growth objectives. This individual will drive commercial performance through insightful analysis, strategic planning, and effective cross-functional collaboration, ensuring alignment with corporate goals.

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop budgets, forecasts, targets, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for the department.
• Collaborate closely with BI, Analytics, and Finance teams to maintain consistent KPI definitions, data reliability, and reporting standards.
• Develop forecasting models to assess business trends, growth potential, and market evolution.
• Ensure alignment of financial goals with the broader commercial and company strategy and monitor key commercial KPIs including revenue, subscriber base, churn and ARPU etc.
• Preparation of high-level management presentations such as Monthly Reviews, CEO/CFO Briefings, Half-Yearly and Annual Business Reviews, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and actionable insights.
• Coordinate and conduct cross-functional meetings with internal and external stakeholders for project updates and alignment.
• Act as the key point of contact between the department and other commercial teams.
• Provide actionable insights by analyzing daily activations, revenue trends, subscriber growth, traffic, and churn.
• Investigate abnormalities and implement strategies to mitigate deviations from expected performance.
• Recommend and implement general process improvements to enhance efficiency and effectiveness within the department.
• Build comprehensive revenue, subscriber, churn, ARPU, PPGB, and RMS forecasts to support strategic initiatives
• Own all end-to-end commercial reporting to China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC), ensuring accuracy, compliance, and alignment with Group frameworks and support group-driven benchmarking, target setting, and best-practice sharing to enhance Zong’s planning discipline and performance management processes.
• Mentor and guide the business planning team in forecasting, modelling, reporting, and advanced analytical skills.

Eligibility Criteria (Education, Knowledge, Experience and Skills):

Education:

• Must have a Bachelors degree

Work Experience:

• Atleast 4 yrs. or Above relevant Experience