Associate Director, Integrated Business Planning Lead - (Brita)

Clorox • Alpharetta, GA

8d • Hybrid

About The Position

The IBP Lead for Brita owns end-to-end integrated business planning, aligning near-, mid-, and long-term demand and supply plans with business objectives and enterprise strategy. The role partners across functions to translate demand, supply, and financial insights into recommendations, guide tradeoffs across service, inventory, cost, and capacity, and support executive decision-making. The lead balances near-term execution with long-term growth priorities and directly manages the Brita S&OE Manager, Network Planning Manager, and Business Planning Manager.

The position maintains a two-to-five-year view of demand, supply, and network implications; assesses strategic initiatives and high-impact scenarios; owns IBP metrics and risks across the value chain; and supports consistent IBP practices and continuous improvement. It also prepares insights and recommendations for IBP forums, scenario reviews, and executive decisions, including building-block assumptions (VBR) to explain forecast and actual shipments and consumption.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive cross-functional experience in planning, demand, forecasting, sales, or marketing, including leadership of IBP/S&OP/S&OE processes.
• Experience managing and developing managers and/or senior individual contributors.
• Strategic problem-solving ability, including framing tradeoffs, setting clear expectations, and driving results in complex, ambiguous environments.
• Strong financial acumen, including experience managing a P&L and working capital and weighing tradeoffs across cost, service, and inventory.
• Strong communication and influencing skills, including translating complex topics into actionable insights and building cross-functional and enterprise partnerships.
• Analytical rigor and a strong understanding of demand and supply planning drivers, scenarios, and risk mitigation strategies.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice To Haves

• A degree in Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Analytics, or Business is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own consolidation of the business unit demand plan across planning streams, incorporating general manager and functional feedback to deliver an integrated, accurate forecast.
• Oversee tradeoff discussions across demand, capacity, inventory, service, and cost, identifying forecast tensions, tradeoffs, and decisions for leadership-team discussion.
• Maintain a real-time view of demand performance against the latest forecast and expectations.
• Maintain a two-to-five-year view of demand, supply, and network implications to support strategic business objectives and growth initiatives.
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to assess strategic initiatives, including innovation, portfolio changes, network investments, and capacity decisions.
• Prioritize and assess high-impact scenarios, balancing risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs to achieve business unit goals.
• Own IBP metrics and value-chain risks and assign actions to improve execution.
• Partner with Finance, Marketing, Sales, R&D, and Supply Chain to understand forecast drivers, identify risks and opportunities, and translate planning outputs into business insights.
• Support consistent IBP ways of working and continuous improvement of planning processes, tools, and governance in partnership with the IBP COE.
• Translate demand, supply, and financial data into insights and recommendations for IBP forums, scenario reviews, and executive decisions.
• Ensure building-block assumptions (VBR) explain forecast and actual shipments and consumption.
• Directly manage the Brita S&OE Manager, Network Planning Manager, and Business Planning Manager.
• Set team priorities to balance daily execution with strategic deliverables, and coach team members in technical rigor, business acumen, and executive communication.

Benefits

• Comprehensive, competitive benefits supporting wellbeing and flexibility.
• Robust health plans.
• Market-leading 401(k) program with company match.
• Flexible time off benefits, including half-day summer Fridays depending on location.
• Inclusive fertility and adoption benefits.
• Eligibility to participate in Clorox incentive plans, subject to applicable plan documents and policies.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director