Director, Integrated Business Planning

Job Overview

Blue Diamond Growers is a grower-owned cooperative with $1.7B in annual revenue. The role is owned by the Chief Financial Officer and focuses on the end-to-end Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process.

Responsibilities

• Enterprise Integrated Business Planning Leadership Governance, Cadence & Decision Quality: 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, 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, 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).
• 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, consistent operating cadence across functions, executive focus on the highest-value issues. Improve decision quality by strengthening data integrity and assumption transparency, scenario comparison and trade-off visibility, alignment between strategic intent and execution reality.
• Prepare executive-level materials that are concise, insight-driven, and focused on actions and decisions.
• Leadership & Development: Build, lead, influence, and develop teams cross-functionally through strong analytical capability, business and financial acumen, executive communication skills, and 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering, or equivalent (MBA preferred)
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in Integrated Business Planning: Critical experience: Demonstrated end-to-end IBP implementation experience. Worked across Sales, Operations, Finance and Supply Chain
• Nice to have: PMI certifications and Six-Sigma (at least green belt)
• 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
• Leadership & Interpersonal Skills: Five leadership capability clusters will be critical: Enterprise Perspective & Strategic Agility, Decision Framing & Executive Influence, Operating Model & Process Leadership, Talent Multiplication & Coaching, Change Leadership & Resilience

Supervisory Requirements

N/A

Physical Demands

Office demands include extensive use of telephone and computer. Occasional travel.

Work Environment

Fast-paced in a dynamic growing environment.

Blue Diamond Growers

Blue Diamond Growers is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer. EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability. WHY BLUE DIAMOND? In addition to working at the world’s largest, state-of-the-art almond manufacturer, we offer a safe and collaborative team environment, with numerous opportunities for free training and career advancement. Check out the BDG Benefits, Health & Wellness Guide HERE. Grow your career. Partner with us. We Are the Almond People! Ready to get started? Apply now!