Sr Principal, Integrated Business Planning (Business / Commercial)

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and implementation of the Integrated Business Planning process, with a focus on Management, Finance, Product, and Demand Reviews
• Play a key role in the implementation and ongoing improvement of SAP IBP ensuring new processes are adequately supported
• Work within a cross-functional team of subject-matter experts from both business and technology backgrounds
• Partner with functional leaders to understand current business processes, identify improvement opportunities, and align future-state planning capabilities with business objectives
• Develop and maintain an IBP roadmap prioritizing process, governance, organizational, and system enhancements
• Design, validate, and deploy process improvements and system capabilities that support integrated planning and scenario-based decision making
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to leverage advanced analytics, machine learning, and digital planning capabilities to improve business insights and effectiveness
• Drive process harmonization, monitor adoption and adherence, implementing interventions where required to improve engagement and effectiveness
• Collaborate with stakeholders outside of Global Operations to ensure alignment with the overall enterprise, e.g., master data governance, and enterprise IT systems (S/4 HANA, SAP IBP)

Qualifications

• 7+ years progressive experience in supply chain planning, finance, or operations, including working knowledge of one or more specific areas, esp. demand planning or finance or sales
• Experience building and managing cross-functional teams
• Process discovery, design, and implementation experience
• Knowledge of SAP capabilities, specifically SAP ECC, S/4 HANA, APO and SAP IBP
• Experience designing and deploying SAP-based processes and functionality
• Appreciation of UX best practices in the context of internally deployed solutions
• Strong project and program management skills, experience creating and executing multi-disciplinary projects
• Strong influencing skills, proven ability to work across organizational boundaries driving change and harmonization across a global organization
• Collaborative, listens and assimilates other viewpoints to come up with a better solution
• Agile and responsive, able to handle multiple priorities, act with urgency, and manage ambiguity
• Customer-centric, invests time in understanding customer requirements
• Results oriented, takes ownership and operates with high sense of urgency
• Solution-oriented, able to solve problems, break down barriers and deliver results ahead of schedule
• Strong written and verbal communication