Use Your Power for Purpose
As Senior Director of Integrated Business Planning, you will use your power to turn complexity into clarity aligning Commercial, Supply, Finance, and Strategy around one enterprise plan. By orchestrating disciplined trade‑offs, scenario‑based decisions, and modern decision intelligence, this role ensures the organization makes better, faster choices that drive sustainable growth, resilience, and enterprise value.
The Senior Director of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) serves as the enterprise-wide process owner for the IBP framework, driving end‑to‑end planning excellence and decision alignment across Commercial, Supply, Finance, and Strategy functions. This role leads the design, governance, and continuous improvement of the IBP cycle, while also overseeing development of a modern decision‑intelligence ecosystem—integrating advanced analytics, digital planning capabilities, scenario modeling, and real‑time performance insights.
The ideal candidate is a strategic, influential leader with deep supply chain planning expertise, strong digital/analytics acumen, and a proven ability to orchestrate cross‑functional collaboration at senior levels.
This role holds enterprise accountability for Integrated Business Planning outcomes, with clear decision rights over IBP standards, planning assumptions, scenario selection, and escalation of enterprise trade‑offs.
While Commercial, Finance, and Supply retain functional ownership of execution, this leader has the mandate to challenge, arbitrate, and elevate decisions required to deliver an aligned enterprise plan. This is not a reporting or analytics coordination role; the focus is on enabling and driving enterprise decisions through structured trade‑offs, scenarios, and executive alignment.
What You Will Achieve
Serve as the enterprise decision authority and process owner for the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) framework, with accountability for the quality, coherence, and executability of the enterprise plan.
Define and evolve the IBP strategy, processes, standards, and governance required to align demand, supply, financial, and strategic plans.
Facilitate or oversee key IBP forums, also including Market and Brand S&OPs, Dollar-to-Unit Reconciliation, and Management Business Reviews.
Partner with Finance to ensure tight linkage between volume, cost, and financial plans.
Champion cross‑functional alignment and accountability for plan accuracy, performance, and risk mitigation.
Own decision escalation and resolution when demand, supply, financial, or strategic plans are misaligned, including defining when trade‑offs are resolved within functions versus elevated to executive forums.
Lead the development of an enterprise decision‑intelligence platform integrating data, models, and insights to improve decision speed and quality.
Partner with Digital/IT to define requirements for digital planning tools, predictive analytics, scenario modeling, and decision workflow automation.
Oversee development of decision‑oriented insights, scenarios, and visualizations that drive action and executive decisions, rather than passive reporting or dashboard consumption.
Embed decision intelligence capabilities into IBP routines—strengthening upstream signal detection and downstream agility.
Shape the analytics roadmap for IBP, including forecasting, demand sensing, supply optimization, network analytics, and inventory intelligence.
Guide standardization of data definitions, master data structures, and planning hierarchies used across planning systems and cycles.
Partner with data science teams to develop and industrialize analytical models that support scenario planning, risk assessment, and performance management.
Assess and recommend new digital tools, technologies, and modeling approaches to advance planning maturity.
Ensure analytics outputs are embedded into IBP decision forums with clear recommendations, decision points, and consequences, avoiding “analysis‑only” or report‑centric use cases.
Collaborate closely with senior leaders across Strategy, Commercial, Supply Chain, and Finance to ensure IBP outputs influence strategic and operational decisions that drive financial performance.
Support executive leadership with insights, scenarios, and recommendations to navigate volatility, resource constraints, or shifts in customer demand.
Serve as a trusted advisor and change agent, enabling adoption of new ways of working across planning teams and business units.
Define and govern the enterprise IBP performance framework, including KPIs and decision thresholds that directly inform financial commitments and trade‑off decisions, not just performance reporting.
Lead continuous improvement initiatives related to process simplification, cycle acceleration, planning quality, and data/technology enablement.
Provide thought leadership on future‑state planning and decision orchestration to elevate enterprise maturity.
Lead, mentor, and develop a multi‑disciplinary IBP and analytics team, fostering a culture of transparency, collaboration, innovation, and data‑driven decision‑making.
Attract and develop talent in planning, analytics, and decision science to scale future capabilities.
Relaunch an executive‑level IBP process with clearly defined decision rights, escalation paths, and financial trade‑off governance.
Establish a single, enterprise‑aligned planning baseline across Commercial, Supply, and Finance, reducing competing narratives and “shadow plans.”
Embed scenario‑based decision making into IBP forums, with explicit financial and service trade‑offs presented to executives.
Improve executive confidence in the IBP process as the primary mechanism for balancing growth, service, inventory, and cash under uncertainty.
Build and position the IBP Intelligence team as a trusted enterprise decision partner, not a reporting or compliance function
Here Is What You Need (Minimum Requirements)
Applicant must have a bachelor's degree with at least 12+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Integrated Business Planning, Operations, Strategy, or related fields.; OR a master's degree with at least 10+ years of experience; OR a PhD with 7+ years of experience.
Deep expertise in S&OP/IBP design, execution, and enterprise‑level governance.
Strong understanding of forecasting, supply planning, inventory management, financial planning, and scenario modeling.
High analytical acumen with experience in digital planning tools (e.g., SAP IBP, Kinaxis), advanced analytics, or decision‑support platforms.
Demonstrated success leading large cross‑functional teams and driving change across complex global organizations.
Exceptional communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills.
Bonus Points If You Have (Preferred Requirements)
Experience designing or implementing decision‑intelligence systems or advanced analytics solutions.
Background in digital transformation, AI/ML‑based forecasting, or end‑to‑end network modeling.
Candidate demonstrates a breadth of diverse leadership experiences and capabilities including: the ability to influence and collaborate with peers, develop and coach others, oversee and guide the work of other colleagues to achieve meaningful outcomes and create business impact.
NON-STANDARD WORK SCHEDULE, TRAVEL OR ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS
May require extended hours during critical IBP cycles (e.g., quarter close, annual planning, executive review preparations).
Occasional early morning or late evening meetings to support a global organization operating across time zones.
Periodic domestic and international travel depending on business needs (10–15%).
Ability to work effectively in both office and remote/virtual collaboration environments.
If visiting manufacturing sites, must follow site safety protocols, which may include PPE, aseptic gowning, or other compliance requirements.
Other Job Details:
Last day to Apply: March 20th, 2026
Work Location Assignment: Hybrid
Relocation assistance may be available based on business needs and/or eligibility.
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