Jobs · Business Development · California

Sr Manager, Integrated Business Planning (IBP)

Dole Packaged Foods · Westlake Village, CA · 1 mo ago
Business Development$165k–$185k/yrFull-time

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
  • 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

Qualifications

  • 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

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