Director, Integrated Business Planning - AFHI

Kraft Heinz•Chicago, IL

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Director, Integrated Commercial Business Planning – Away From Home (AFH) is a newly created leadership role responsible for owning and operating the commercial planning system across the Away From Home business unit. The Director connects brand and category teams through a shared planning cadence, maintains a single trusted demand number, and leads the decision rhythm that brings demand, supply, and commercial plans together. The role will build the Integrated Commercial Business Planning (ICBP) process and teams from the ground up, including designing routines, establishing governance, and launching a second-half pilot ahead of a January 2027 go-live. It will drive adoption and accountability across functions, lead weekly and monthly planning cycles, manage risks and opportunities, support selected strategic projects, and coordinate milestones for the annual three-year plan cycle. The position manages two salaried direct reports. This is an office-based role in a normal open-workspace environment. Employees may work virtually up to two days per week and are expected to be onsite at their assigned location at least three days per workweek during defined core days.

Requirements

Experience in commercial planning, sales strategy, category or business planning, IBP/S&OP, or related commercial roles.
Demonstrated experience partnering across Sales, Marketing, and Finance to align cross-functional plans.
Strong commercial acumen and ability to connect demand, investment, financial, and consumption drivers to business outcomes.
Comfort working with revenue, volume, and margin data.
Strong organizational and planning skills, including the ability to manage multiple complex workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholders concurrently.
Comfort operating in a dynamic, fast-changing environment and adapting as priorities and business conditions evolve.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including synthesizing data from multiple sources into clear, decision-ready insights.
Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders without direct authority.
Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and AI platforms.

Nice To Haves

Experience with formal business planning cycles such as IBP, S&OP, AOP/1YP, or similar.
Familiarity with planning or ERP systems such as SAP and BI tools such as Power BI.
Interest in how digital tools and AI can streamline commercial planning.

Responsibilities

Build the ICBP teams and process in partnership with internal and external partners, designing routines, establishing governance, and launching the second-half pilot ahead of the January 2027 go-live.
Drive behavior change and accountability across functions and levels to establish the new process and sustain long-term change.
Lead the weekly and monthly commercial planning cadence, including Quarterly Delivery Management and Rolling Gap Management cycles, ensuring pre-reads, minutes, and actions are completed.
Maintain a single trusted cross-business-unit demand number that serves as the authoritative view for organizational planning.
Identify, frame, and close risks and opportunities in real time; bring recommendations to the appropriate forums and maintain accountability through resolution.
Lead selected business-unit strategic projects, including organic and inorganic opportunity assessments.
Coordinate cross-business-unit milestones for the annual three-year plan cycle, including governance meetings and progress on long-term business enablers.
Manage a team of two salaried direct reports.