Senior Manager, Global Integrated Business Planning and Inventory Management

Intermedia Group•Tempe, AZ

1d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for leading the implementation and coordination of the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process for the Business Unit (BU). The Senior Manager will partner with Executive Process Champions and Process leaders across the five IBP steps to ensure effective reviews, timely materials, and informed decision-making. This position provides holistic and unbiased counsel to the President across the end-to-end business value chain. The IBP Process Leader monitors the quality of IBP meetings, leads the Integrated Reconciliation Review, facilitates the Management Business Review, and ensures that identified issues and imbalances are cross-functionally reviewed, resolved, or escalated. The role is directly responsible for the effective and efficient operation of the BU's IBP process and its continuous improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering and/or Operations.
Minimum of 3 years related experience including demand planning, supply planning, BP or S&OP.
Advanced knowledge of data visualization tools (Power BI, QlikView, etc.).
Understand the key drivers of the business and the levers that impact business success (revenues, volumes, and margin).
Able to synthesize complex issues into focused and clearly articulated decisions that need to be made.
Ability to interact and communicate effectively with executive management.
Recognized leadership capability.
Strong project management, facilitation, and problem-solving skills.
Strong interpersonal and influencing skills, with the ability to build credible relationships with multiple functions.
Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate, both orally and in writing, technical and non-technical information to all organization levels.
Demonstrated ability to solve complex problems using personal knowledge and relevant tools.
Demonstrated proficiency in identifying, analyzing, and resolving functional, team, and individual performance issues in a fair, equitable, and professional manner using a thoughtful, deliberative, decision-making process.
Ability to analyze and integrate input from multiple functions when developing issue statements, alternatives, and recommendations and to present concise and compelling recommendations.
Experience implementing new business processes and driving organization change.
Demonstrated performance in living the values of the company.
Ability to appreciate and honor differing backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences and to develop genuine consensus among groups from different backgrounds and functions.

Nice To Haves

Masters or MBA preferred.
Broad functional experience or knowledge of the key processes of Product Management, Demand and/or Supply Management highly recommended.
Fundamental knowledge of finance and accounting records.
Advanced knowledge of IBP systems and processes a plus.

Responsibilities

Lead the implementation of IBP in the BU (globally and in regions).
Drive organizational adoption and acceptance of the IBP process.
Orchestrate the ongoing IBP process across all steps.
Lead the monthly Integrated Reconciliation (IR) and facilitate the monthly Management Business Review (MBR).
Partner with Finance to ensure clarity of financials for decision-making.
Support annual assessment and ongoing IBP process improvement.
Help create the vision for Integrated Business Plan within the BU and ensure process alignment across all BU's in coordination with the Global IBP Process Leader.
Manage the implementation project, ensuring appropriate scope, schedules, and resources.
Lead the implementation team to establish IBP processes and guidelines and ensure correct behaviors are followed.
Work with the management Steering Team to identify, intensify, and resolve project barriers, risks, or issues.
Ensure the IBP hierarchy supports the integration of product, demand, supply, and financial plans.
Manage and implement the change management plan to ensure adoption and evolution of IBP.
Lead continuous education processes after implementation to ensure broad organizational support and alignment.
Ensure the schedule of meetings for the next 12 months is published and that all process meetings take place as scheduled.
Maintain the IBP policy and procedure documentation.
Identify, develop, and implement process improvement plans to optimize IBP processes.
Proactively coach Process Leaders and Executive Champions in the IBP process.
Form and lead cross-functional teams to ensure issues and imbalances are reviewed, resolved, or intensified.
Participate in the monthly Financial Appraisal.
Facilitate the Integrated Reconciliation (IR) step, including the recommendation or development of scenarios that re-optimize the business and develop gap-closing solutions.
Facilitate the Management Business Review (MBR) meeting, including agenda preparation, executive briefing, consolidation, and distribution of the MBR deck, and the issuing of meeting minutes and action items.
Prepare and publish the MBR deck 24 hours in advance of the meeting and publish results of the MBR within 24 hours after the meeting.
Provide Leadership Team members with information that supports decision-making.
Engage and stay aligned with Product Management, Finance, and Supply to maintain continuous integrated resolution of issues, threats, and opportunities.
Monitor process KPIs to ensure the business and the process are delivering stated objectives.
Ensure corrective action measures are identified and implemented.
Provide analytical support as necessary to improve the quality and timeliness of IBP data reporting.
Ensure review critiques continuously improve the IBP process.
Review with process leaders any weaknesses in their processes and support them in developing and implementing improvement plans.
Lead a self-assessment of the process annually, and schedule/coordinate outside assessment(s) as appropriate.