Sr Manager, Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

Dole Packaged Foods • Thousand Oaks, CA

1d • $165,000 - $185,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Dole Packaged Foods is a purpose-led organization focused on accessible fruit nutrition and building a brighter future for people through the goodness of fruit. Our culture is driven by core values, fostering a respectful, inclusive environment that values colleagues, customers, and global communities. We strive for excellence, empowering each other to overcome challenges, learn continuously, and achieve world-class results with integrity. Through collaboration, we cultivate positivity and teamwork towards our One Dole Purpose. The Senior Manager, IBP is a new role responsible for building, running, and continuously improving the company's Integrated Business Planning process. This role acts as the operational engine behind IBP, sitting at the intersection of commercial, supply chain, and finance. It involves designing the process architecture, facilitating monthly review cycles, and ensuring that demand and supply plans translate into coherent financial and strategic decisions. Additionally, this role serves as the organization's center of excellence for supply and demand planning metrics, establishing performance measurement frameworks, KPIs, and analytical standards. This is a high-visibility role with direct senior leadership exposure and significant cross-functional influence. 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 with 3 days per week in the Westlake Village, CA office.

Requirements

• 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.
• BA/BS in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Engineering or equivalent.

Nice To Haves

• 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.
• MBA preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or on the basis of disability.

What This Job Offers

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