Director, Integrated Business Planning CoE

This role defines, leads, and continuously evolves the Beer Division Integrated Business Planning (IBP) operating model, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the IBP North Star, including the initiative roadmap and maturity progression across all IBP building blocks (demand, supply, financial integration, governance, data & technology).
• Identify end-to-end value opportunities across the Beer Division IBP operating model, classifying issues such as capability or tool enablement gaps and assessing impact on forecast quality, financial alignment, and Forecast Value Add (FVA).
• Define and maintain IBP standards and best practices, ensuring consistent ways of working across Demand, Supply, Governance, and Finance integration to improve planning performance and decision alignment.
• Develop and govern the IBP initiative roadmap, leading prioritization and trade-off decisions to focus on the highest-value opportunities and scalable solutions.
• Own the IBP Process Health Check and Process Maturity Assessment, driving continuous improvement of the IBP operating model to achieve measurable gains in planning effectiveness and business performance.
• Lead and influence at both executive and junior levels to establish IBP as the core enterprise operating model for balancing growth, cost, service, and risk across a multi-horizon planning cycle.

Success Metrics

• Top Line Revenue Growth — driven by improved planning accuracy and demand-supply matching.
• Bottom Line Total Landed Cost Reduction — Production Efficiency, Transportation, Labor, and Network Optimization savings.
• EBIT Margin improvement.
• Working Capital Exposure — inventory turns improvement, working capital reductions.
• IBP Process Maturity Score — improvement across the Health Check and Maturity Assessment.
• Standards Adoption — consistency of “one version of the truth” across planning functions.
• Operational Excellence — Planning Accuracy, continuous improvement implementation, IBP process effectiveness.

Working Relationships

• Reports to: Senior Director, IBP CoE.
• Indirect Reports: IBP Process SME(s)/Analyst(s).
• Key Interfaces: IBP Process Owners/Leads, Director, IBP CoE Enablement, Execution/IT (Solution Architects, DevOps), Knowledge Hub, Finance, Supply Chain, Commercial (Sales/Marketing).

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree with 8-10+ years in Supply Chain/Integrated Business Planning, with deep IBP domain expertise across Demand, Supply, and Executive/Financial review cycles.
• Proven experience designing or governing standards, frameworks, or maturity models within a large, matrixed organization.
• Experience facilitating cross-functional governance forums and steering committees.
• Working knowledge of agile and product operating models preferred.

Skills

• Strategic Planning & Business Acumen: Connects governance decisions to enterprise service, cost, and working-capital outcomes.
• Deep IBP Expertise: Fluent in the full IBP cadence — Portfolio, Demand, Supply, Pre-Exec, and Executive Review.
• Data/Analytics Proficiency: Uses data to assess value and prioritize trade-offs objectively.
• Facilitation & Governance: Runs structured decision forums that produce clear, actionable outcomes.
• Influencing Without Authority: Aligns Process Owners, Enablement, and Execution around shared standards.
• Change Leadership: Drives adoption of new standards and ways of working across the organization.

Mindsets & Behaviors

• Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust.
• Comfortable bringing structure to ambiguity and turning raw ideas into well-formed, governed initiatives.
• Result-oriented, recognizing that maturity improvement is a continuous journey, not a one-time event.
• Challenges the team to bring intellectual curiosity, creativity, and innovation to standards and governance.

Physical Requirements

• Must be at least 21 years of age.
• Able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time and work on a computer for extended periods.
• Lifting may be required.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Location

Chicago, Illinois or Rochester, New York.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $117,100.00 - $212,900.00. This range reflects the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of posting. Compensation is based on cost of labor and may vary by location. An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on factors including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business needs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive package including paid time off.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) and other benefits for eligible employees.

Schedule

Full time.