OverviewPurpose:
The Senior Manager, IBP is a newly created role responsible for building, running, and continuously improving the company's Integrated Business Planning process. Sitting at the intersection of commercial, supply chain, and finance, this role is the operational engine behind IBP — designing the process architecture, facilitating monthly review cycles, and ensuring that plans across demand and supply translate into coherent financial and strategic decisions. Beyond process ownership, this role serves as the organization's center of excellence for supply and demand planning metrics, establishing the performance measurement frameworks, KPIs, and analytical standards used across the demand and supply planning functions led by peer directors. This is a high-visibility role with direct senior leadership exposure and significant cross-functional influence.
Career Level: This role manages multiple professional roles or complex teams, aligns cross functional priorities, and leads scalable solutions to improve efficiency and performance.
This role provides flexibility to work in a hybrid environment of home and our Westlake Village, CA office. (Hybrid is defined as 3 times per week in the office).
Responsibilities
Primary Accountabilities:
IBP Process Design & Execution
- Own and lead the end-to-end monthly IBP cycle, ensuring alignment, accountability, and decision readiness across all stages
- Lead IBP forums that drive alignment on risks, opportunities, and trade-offs impacting enterprise priorities and financial performance
- Establish standardized IBP artifacts (agendas, pre-reads, decision frameworks, escalation protocols) to enable consistent, decision-focused execution
- Define and advance the IBP roadmap from S&OP to fully integrated financial planning
- Own the alignment of operational and financial plans, ensuring decisions translate into P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow outcomes
Process Governance & Change Management
- Establish and govern the IBP operating model, including RACI, planning calendar, and escalation pathways
- Drive cross-functional adoption by reinforcing roles, decision rights, and accountability across commercial, supply chain, and finance
- Ensure planning assumptions are structured, owned, and actively managed to support transparent decision-making
- Identify and resolve systemic planning gaps, bias, and process breakdowns
Center of Excellence — Supply & Demand Metrics
- Own the enterprise planning performance framework, including KPI definitions, methodologies, and reporting standards
- Ensure consistent use of metrics to drive aligned, data-driven decisions across planning functions
- Deliver dashboards and insights that inform leadership prioritization and performance management
- Benchmark performance and drive continuous improvement initiatives
- Embed metrics into operating rhythms in partnership with planning leadership
Technology & Tools
- Define planning system and reporting requirements to support IBP processes and decision-making
- Partner with IT to ensure tools align with business needs and enable scalable planning capabilities
- Ensure data integrity and consistency across systems to support reliable insights
- Other duties as assigned
Qualifications
Experience, Knowledge, & Skills You Bring:
Required:
- 8+ years of progressive experience in supply chain planning, S&OP/IBP, or related functions
- Demonstrated experience designing or significantly improving an S&OP or IBP process at a mid-to-large organization
- Strong command of supply and demand planning metrics and the analytical methods behind them
- Ability to translate volume plans into financial terms (revenue, COGS, working capital)
- Proven cross-functional influencer, comfortable challenging commercial and operational assumptions with data
- Strong facilitation and communication skills; able to run senior leadership forums effectively
Preferred:
- Experience in [CPG / Food & Beverage / Manufacturing / relevant industry]
- Familiarity with planning tools such as SAP IBP, Kinaxis, O9, or similar
- Exposure to APICS/IBF frameworks (CPIM, CSCP, or equivalent)
- Experience leading process implementations in organizations transitioning from basic S&OP to financial IBP
What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Passionate about a purpose driven career
- Committed to fostering inclusive environments that support employee development and well-being
- Sets clear expectations, encourages innovation, and drives continuous improvement
- Models and coaches towards transparency and integrity in decision-making
- Effectively facilitates cross-team communication and teamwork
Education & Certification:
- BA/BS in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Engineering or equivalent
- MBA preferred
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to sit and use the computer for extended periods of time; ability to answer phones and use a variety of office equipment; ability to lift 15 pounds and reach overhead.
Travel Requirements:
- 10-20% travel may be required
