Enterprise Planning Systems & Analytics Manager

About the role

The Finance Planning & Analytics Manager is responsible for leading the strategy, governance, and continuous evolution of the company's Anaplan planning ecosystem, including Enterprise Planning, Pricing, and Financial Planning models. This role serves as the bridge between Finance, Operations, and Technology, partnering with business leaders and technical teams to design scalable planning solutions, optimize reporting capabilities, and drive adoption of best-in-class planning processes. The position combines strategic leadership, financial systems expertise, and people management to enhance decision-making across the Berry business.

Responsibilities

• Anaplan Architecture & Governance: Lead the strategic development of our Anaplan models (Enterprise Planning, Pricing, and FP&A), acting as the core business logic architect and designing future-state planning processes with key business partners.
• Cross-Functional Tech Liaison: Serve as the bridge between Finance, Operations, and IT to align business requirements with technology, driving seamless platform adoption across the organization.
• Digital Ecosystem & Innovation: Evaluate emerging technologies, design integration strategies, and build prototypes to enable self-service analytics and reduce manual data extraction.
• Financial Alignment & Forecasting: Ensure consistency across financial analyses, forecasts, and strategic projections across all business units to support enterprise goals.
• Talent Development & Leadership: Directly manage and mentor a Senior Financial Analyst while coaching the broader analytics team to foster a culture of continuous learning.
• Continuous Improvement: Constructively challenge existing workflows to uncover operational efficiencies and drive better business outcomes.

Requirements

• Academic Degree & Education Requirements: Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Agricultural Business, or a related field. Master's degree or professional certifications in planning systems, analytics, finance, or project management are highly desirable.
• Functional & Technical Skills: Extensive experience with Microsoft Office (specifically Excel), relational databases, business intelligence (BI) platforms, and business modeling tools. Proven track record developing and delivering executive dashboards, KPIs, management reporting, and business insights using tools like Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms. Strong hands-on experience or certifications as an Anaplan Model Builder, Solution Architect, or equivalent enterprise planning system credentials are highly preferred. Foundational understanding of software development lifecycle, databases, and programming languages such as Python, R, and SQL. Advanced mathematical, statistical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Leadership & Experience Requirements: 3 to 5 years of direct experience managing and developing teams. Excellent written and verbal English skills are required. Bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish is strongly preferred. Adaptability & Collaboration: Strong interpersonal skills with a proven track record of earning trust, building cross-functional relationships, and thriving in fast-paced, rapidly changing environments.

Qualifications

• Experience Years: 5-10 Years of Experience.

Skills

• Software & Modeling: Extensive experience with Microsoft Office (specifically Excel), relational databases, business intelligence (BI) platforms, and business modeling tools.
• BI & Reporting: Proven track record developing and delivering executive dashboards, KPIs, management reporting, and business insights using tools like Tableau, Power BI, or similar platforms.
• Enterprise Planning Systems: Strong hands-on experience or certifications as an Anaplan Model Builder, Solution Architect, or equivalent enterprise planning system credentials are highly preferred.
• Programming & Analytics: Foundational understanding of software development lifecycle, databases, and programming languages such as Python, R, and SQL.
• Quantitative Acumen: Advanced mathematical, statistical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.

Benefits

• Salary Range: Estimated for the Enterprise Planning Systems & Analytics Manager: $107,000.00/year to $140,000.00/year.
• Driscoll’s is committed to a culture of care and offers an attractive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week. Other benefits include: 401(k) with employer match, profit-sharing participation, paid sick time, paid vacation, paid personal and family care leave, and a free Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

About Driscolls

Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world. Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – meaning, no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners. Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries™.