Your role at Clorox:The IBP Associate Director is a critical leadership role within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) organization, responsible for owning the end-to-end supply, and production planning integration for the business unit. This role serves as the primary bridge between strategy and execution, ensuring near , mid , and long term plans are aligned to enterprise strategic objectives.
This leader will own the forecast, and supply/production planning integration, while guiding the team's day-to-day priorities, removing obstacles, and elevating the quality of insights, planning narratives, and decision support provided to senior leadership. The role acts as a thought partner to the IBP Director, supporting strategic integration, executive narrative building, and cross functional alignment across the business.
In this role, you will:End-to-End IBP Ownership- Owns the integrated supply, and production planning process, ensuring alignment across forecast, capacity, inventory, and financial outcomes.
- Serves as the single point of accountability for translating demand signals into feasible, optimized supply and production plans across planning horizons.
- Ensures plans are unbiased, risk-informed, and aligned with long-term strategic objectives.
Forecast & Supply Integration- Oversees forecasting and scenario development, ensuring appropriate network optimization, risk/opportunity identification, and assumptions.
- Ensures supply, network, and production plans are robust, executable, and aligned to demand scenarios and financial commitments.
- Leads tradeoff discussions across capacity, inventory, service, and cost, escalating only materially differentiated options to senior leadership.
Strategic Planning & Long-Term Focus- Maintains a strong long-term (2-5 year) view of demand, supply, and network implications to support strategic business objectives and growth initiatives.
- Partners with cross-functional leaders to assess strategic initiatives (e.g., innovation, portfolio changes, network investments, capacity decisions).
- Ensures planning outputs support strategic decision-making rather than solely short-term execution.
Team Leadership & Prioritization- Directly manages the Network Planning Managers (4 FTE's) for Food and Burt's Bees
- Sets clear priorities and direction for the team, balancing daily execution needs with strategic deliverables.
- Coaches and develops team members to elevate technical rigor, business acumen, and executive communication.
- Ensures consistency, quality, and cadence across supply, and planning deliverables.
Executive Narrative & Decision Support- Partners closely with the IBP Director to build integrated planning narratives, executive materials, and business storytelling.
- Synthesizes complex demand, supply, and financial data into clear insights, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
- Prepares content for IBP forums, scenario reviews, leadership discussions, and executive decision moments.
Cross-Functional Integration- Acts as a trusted planning partner to Finance, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Supply Chain leadership.
- Drives proactive cross-functional engagement to surface risks early and ensure alignment on assumptions and actions.
- Supports consistent IBP ways of working and continuous improvement of planning processes, tools, and governance.
What we look for:- 10+ years of progressive experience in Integrated Business Planning, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Network Planning, or related disciplines.
- Proven experience leading end-to-end IBP / S&OP / ISA processes and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Experience managing and developing managers and/or senior individual contributors.
- CPG or fast-moving consumer goods experience preferred.
Core Capabilities- Enterprise Thinking: Ability to balance short-term execution with long-term strategy.
- Strategic Problem Solving: Framing tradeoffs and decisions in ambiguous, complex environments.
- Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of P&L, working capital, tradeoffs across cost, service, and inventory.
- Analytical Rigor: Deep understanding of demand and supply planning drivers, scenarios, and risk mitigation strategies.
- Executive Communication: Ability to translate complexity into clear, compelling leadership narratives.
- Leadership Presence: Confident, credible partner to senior leaders across functions.
Education- Bachelor's degree required (Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Analytics, Business preferred)
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