Nestle

Manager Strategic Planning

Nestle$100K — $130K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in strategic planning or process improvement roles
  • Proven project management skills with a focus on delivering enterprise-wide solutions
  • Strong expertise in change management and stakeholder engagement strategies
  • Familiarity with AI and digital tools for process automation
  • Excellent communication skills for translating strategies into actionable plans

Responsibilities

  • Drive enterprise-wide planning process excellence and standards implementation
  • Lead cross-functional planning initiatives from conception to execution
  • Manage program governance to ensure project delivery aligns with business goals
  • Develop and deliver training resources to enhance planning capabilities
  • Enable AI solutions to improve planning efficiency and execution

Benefits

  • Access to comprehensive training resources
  • Opportunities for professional development and capability building
  • Participation in a dynamic work culture focused on innovation
  • Ability to influence enterprise-wide planning strategies
  • Engagement with cutting-edge digital tools and AI solutions
Full Job Description
This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Main Purpose of the Job Lead strategic planning operations and enterprise process improvement initiatives that strengthen commercial planning across the organization. This role owns and evolves end-to-end planning routines, drives consistent adoption of standards and tools, and delivers scalable resources, training, and communications that enable smarter, faster execution. The role also serves as a key driver of AI and automation enablement within commercial planning, partnering across functions to shape, pilot, and scale automation and AI-enabled solutions that improve planning quality, clarify expectations, and unlock efficiency gains.

Role Summary

The Strategic Planning Manager on the Dynamic Planning Team plays a central role in evolving division-centric planning into Dynamic Planning by owning standardized ways of working, governance, and measurement across the Integrated Commercial Planning (ICP) process and other long-term and short-term planning processes.

This role helps establish the Dynamic Planning Team as an enterprise-wide Center of Excellence (COE) for unified short-term, mid-term, and long-term planning-bridging strategic and operational planning to deliver clarity, agility, and best-in-class execution.

The manager leads cross-functional programs that improve planning effectiveness and stakeholder experience by:
  • Owning ICP standards, expectations, and governance (what "good" looks like),
  • Creating and scaling planning resources, toolkits, and training,
  • Driving change management and communications to strengthen adoption,
  • Establishing performance metrics and feedback loops, and
  • Enabling AI and digital solutions (e.g., CAP Coach, VBT Dashboard / Osprey-connected workflows) to reduce rework and improve plan quality.


Key Responsibilities (High-Level)
  • Drive Enterprise Commercial Planning Process Excellence & ICP Standardization
  • Program & Project Management with Strong Operating Rhythms Governance
  • Lead AI Enablement & Digital Tool Adoption
  • Resource Creation, Training, and Capability Building
  • Change Management, Communication, and Stakeholder Engagement
  • Measurement, Insights, and Continuous Improvement


Responsibilities

Enterprise Planning Process Excellence & ICP Ownership
  • Own the end-to-end Integrated Commercial Planning (ICP) process, including standards, expectations, outputs, timelines, and role clarity across planning phases.
  • Assess current planning processes and identify opportunities to simplify execution, improve rigor, and reduce rework.
  • Define and govern enterprise planning standards that align cross-functional teams and reinforce accountability.
  • Drive consistency in process and tool usage by reinforcing "one way of working" and removing friction points.
  • Translate strategy and leadership direction into clear, executable planning guidance.

Program / Project Management & Operating Rhythm
  • Lead planning excellence and transformation initiatives end-to-end, from scoping and planning through execution, adoption, and value realization.
  • Coordinate cross-functional contributors across Sales, Commercial Development, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing, and IT/Digital.
  • Maintain disciplined planning rhythms, including milestone tracking, status reporting, escalations, and leadership updates.
  • Ensure initiatives are enterprise-ready, on time, and deliver intended business outcomes.

AI Enablement & Digital Tool Adoption
  • Support development and execution of the Dynamic Planning AI enablement roadmap aligned to ICP standards and decision needs.
  • Identify high-value use cases, support pilots, and scale adoption through training and change management.
  • Drive adoption and continuous improvement of planning tools
  • Partner with stakeholders to ensure strong data quality, definitions, and standards-recognizing their ro

About Nestle

Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss multinational food and drink processing conglomerate corporation headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. It is the largest food company in the world, measured by revenue and other metrics, since 2014. It ranked No. 64 on the Fortune Global 500 in 2017 and No. 33 in the 2016 edition of the Forbes Global 2000 list of largest public companies. Nestlé's products include baby food, medical food, bottled water, breakfast cereals, coffee and tea, confectionery, dairy products, ice cream, frozen food, pet foods, and snacks. Twenty-nine of Nestlé's brands have annual sales of over 1 billion CHF, including Nespresso, Nescafé, Kit Kat, Smarties, Nesquik, Stouffer's, Vittel, and Maggi. Nestlé has 447 factories, operates in 189 countries, and employs around 339,000 people. It is one of the main shareholders of L'Oreal, the world's largest cosmetics company. Nestlé was formed in 1905 by the merger of the "Anglo-Swiss Milk Company", established in 1866 by brothers George and Charles Page, and "Farine Lactée Henri Nestlé", founded in 1867 by Henri Nestlé. The company grew significantly during the First World War and again following the Second World War, expanding its offerings beyond its early condensed milk and infant formula products. The company has made a number of corporate acquisitions, including Crosse & Blackwell in 1950, Findus in 1963, Libby's in 1971, Rowntree Mackintosh in 1988, Klim in 1998, and Gerber in 2007.
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