Director, Integrated Business Planning

Blue Diamond Growers•Sacramento, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

Blue Diamond Growers is a grower-owned cooperative made up of approximately 3,000 growers and is one of the world’s leading almond processors and marketers, with $1.7B in annual revenue and products sold across the U.S. and in markets around the world. With a strong manufacturing footprint and deep agricultural roots, BDG is focused on delivering high-quality almond products through operational excellence, innovation, and partnership. Reporting to the Chief Global Supply Officer, the role owns the end-to-end Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process (Demand, Almond Supply, Supply, Integrated Reconciliation), ensuring the company’s most critical cross-functional planning processes deliver measurable financial and operational results. The role acts as the partner for enterprise alignment - connecting strategy, demand, supply, inventory, and execution. IBP is positioned as the main management system of the business, enabling clear trade-offs, disciplined decision-making, and predictable value delivery. As a strategic business partner, the Director of IBP connects executive priorities with operational execution, ensuring the company can effectively balance growth, profitability, customer service, and supply chain performance. The role oversees the monthly IBP/S&OP process, develops scenario planning capabilities, and drives continuous improvement through analytics, technology, and process discipline.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering, or equivalent (MBA preferred).
Ideal with PMI and Six Sigma certifications (at least green belt).
10+ years of progressive leadership experience in: Integrated Business Planning / S&OP, Strategy execution or enterprise transformation, Cross-functional program leadership.
Experience in asset-intensive, demand/supply-driven environments (CPG, food, agriculture, manufacturing preferred).
Deep understanding of IBP maturity models and best practices.
Strong business acumen with the ability to translate operational plans into value creation impacts.
Experience with ERP, planning, and analytics platforms (e.g., SAP, BI solutions, AI tools including Claude).
Ability to synthesize complex data into clear executive-level insights.
Enterprise Perspective & Strategic Agility: Systems thinking, dealing with ambiguity.
Decision Framing & Executive Influence: Drive for results, influence without authority.
Operating Model & Process Leadership: Process management.
Talent Multiplication & Coaching: Developing direct reports, building effective teams.
Change Leadership & Resilience: Leading through change, perseverance, continuous learning.

Nice To Haves

MBA preferred
PMI and Six Sigma certifications (at least green belt)

Responsibilities

Owns and continuously improves Blue Diamond’s end-to-end IBP framework, ensuring tight integration between strategic priorities and full year execution, demand, supply, and inventory planning, and financial commitments (P&L, cash flow, working capital, capital spend).
Lead, coordinate and orchestrate the full IBP governance cadence, including: Demand Review, Almond Supply Review, Supply Review, Integrated Reconciliation/Management Review.
Ensure IBP forums are decision-oriented, with clear visibility of risks and opportunities.
Ensure gaps between operational plans and financial commitments are surfaced early, quantified, and escalated with clear options and recommendations.
Reinforce financial discipline by ensuring trade-offs are explicitly framed, decisions are documented, and outcomes are tracked (net profit and cash flow).
Required executive decisions and ownership.
Embed scenario planning as a core capability to proactively manage volatility related to demand shifts, crop variability, capacity constraints, and margin pressure.
Establish IBP as the single source of truth for enterprise volume, mix, capacity, inventory, and service assumptions.
Design and maintain enterprise planning and execution governance that ensures clear decision rights and accountability, and consistent operating cadence across functions.
Improve decision quality by strengthening data integrity and assumption transparency, scenario comparison and trade-off visibility, and alignment between strategic intent and execution reality.
Prepare executive-level materials that are concise, insight-driven, and focused on actions and decisions.
Build, lead, influence, and develop teams cross-functionally through strong analytical capability, business and financial acumen, and executive communication skills.
Influence without authority.
Foster a culture of enterprise thinking, collaboration, and accountability.
Elevate IBP maturity across the organization by coaching functional leaders, standardizing ways of working, and reinforcing ownership of commitments.
Serve as a change/transformation leader, shifting mindsets from functional optimization to enterprise value optimization.