Product Portfolio Manager

Group overview

Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design and development centers, and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.

alfanar is involved in:

Electrical, electromechanical and civil engineering construction

Manufacturing and marketing electrical construction products

Allied engineering services

Our main divisions:

alfanar electric

alfanar construction

alfanar building systems

alfanar electric

alfanar electric is the industrial arm of alfanar, manufacturing a variety of low, medium and high voltage electrical construction products.

alfanar electric operates industries in:

Riyadh and Jubail, Saudi Arabia

Dubai, UAE

London, UK

alfanar has a development and engineering center in Chennai, India.

Industrial complex, Riyadh

The center of alfanar’s industrial activities is alfanar Industrial Complex situated in the Third Industrial Zone on Al-Kharj Road, Riyadh.

Spread across 700,000 square meters, the complex houses alfanar’s facilities.

The complex has a comprehensive infrastructure including a data and communication center as well as a commercial zone.

Job purpose

Responsible for overseeing the availability, accuracy, and consistency of product portfolio information across internal and external platforms, ensuring all product specifications are aligned with engineering data and effectively represented to support business operations and market visibility.

Key accountability areas

Product data and specification management

Oversee the collection, validation, and consolidation of product specifications from factory and engineering teams

Ensure all product data is accurate, complete, and aligned with approved technical documentation

Maintain consistency of specifications across all platforms and documentation

Website and digital content oversight

Oversee the publication and update of product specifications on digital platforms, including the company website

Ensure all product information is structured, up-to-date, and reflects current configurations and offerings

Monitor the quality and consistency of product representation across digital channels

Cross-functional coordination

Coordinate with factory, engineering, and relevant teams to obtain and validate technical product information

Align internally on product updates, changes, and new releases to ensure timely reflection in systems and platforms

Resolve discrepancies between engineering data and published content

Portfolio visibility and structuring

Maintain a structured and organized view of the product portfolio across categories and segments

Ensure clarity and accessibility of product information for internal stakeholders and external users

Support the standardization of product naming, classification, and presentation

Data governance and control

Establish and maintain controls to ensure accuracy and integrity of product information

Ensure proper version control and traceability of specification updates

Monitor compliance with internal documentation standards and requirements

Support to business functions

Provide accurate and validated product information to support sales, marketing, and tendering activities

Ensure readiness of product data for external communication and customer reference

Role accountability

HR proficiency:

Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management

Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them

Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination

Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results

Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy

Responsibility:

Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines

Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them

Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions

Delivery:

Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost

Making a tangible difference:

Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation and exceed business expectations

Business planning and performance:

Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans

Able to plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans

Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly

Provide periodic work progress reports

Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency

Organizational development:

Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans

Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment

Business process improvements:

Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automation opportunities as much as possible

Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business

Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture

Quality:

Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage; as such, managers are expected to act accordingly

Adaptation:

Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models

Health, safety and environment:

Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations

Academic qualification

Bachelor degree in information management sciences and systems or any relevant field

Work experience

15+ years

Technical / functional competencies

Content analysis

Information reporting

Information and reporting

Technical service manuals