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