Integrated Business Planning Leader

Corporate Headquarters
1150 Sanctuary Parkway
Suite 100
Alpharetta, GA 30009, USA

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Leader

Reports to: Senior Manager, Supply Chain Strategy and Analytics
Role Type: Senior Individual Contributor
Location: Alpharetta, GA

Position Summary

The Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Leader will establish and operate the analytical and governance backbone of Arclin's Integrated Business Planning process. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Supply Chain Strategy and Analytics, this role will serve as the governance leader responsible for driving the transition from traditional S&OP practices to a fully integrated business planning framework.

This position will connect demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial perspectives across the organization; identify gaps and tradeoffs; and ensure leaders enter financial reconciliation and executive planning reviews with clear choices and decision-ready information. The role will play a critical part in aligning commercial, supply chain, operations, manufacturing, and finance teams around a common planning model and 24-month planning horizon to support strategic business objectives, long-range growth, and organizational readiness initiatives.

The successful candidate will possess a unique combination of business acumen, analytical capability, executive presence, and change leadership skills to build, implement, and continuously improve a sustainable IBP process across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation, operationalization, and continuous improvement of Arclin's Integrated Business Planning process, translating executive vision into a repeatable monthly planning cadence.
• Design, document, and manage the monthly IBP calendar, including demand reviews, supply reviews, financial reconciliation, pre-IBP, and executive IBP meetings.
• Consolidate demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial inputs into a cohesive enterprise business plan with a focus on a 24-month planning horizon.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment between commercial forecasts, supply capabilities, operational planning, and financial objectives.
• Lead the financial reconciliation process by aligning operational volume plans with financial forecasts and facilitating resolution of planning gaps across business functions.
• Identify material gaps to plan, challenge assumptions, and develop scenarios that clarify revenue, margin, service, inventory, and capacity tradeoffs.
• Prepare concise, executive-ready materials that clearly communicate recommendations, risks, opportunities, and required decisions.
• Present recommendations, business risks, scenario analyses, and tradeoff evaluations to senior leadership teams, influencing decisions without direct authority.
• Facilitate cross-functional working sessions and drive alignment among stakeholders prior to executive review meetings.
• Maintain decision logs, action owners, due dates, and risk tracking while escalating unresolved issues through established governance processes.
• Drive organizational adoption of new planning processes, governance standards, and decision-making frameworks through effective change management and stakeholder engagement.
• Ensure consistent execution of a sustainable and repeatable monthly planning cycle across business functions.
• Build process maturity through standard work, role clarity, governance structures, meeting effectiveness reviews, and participant training initiatives.
• Partner with Finance to establish one aligned set of planning assumptions, enabling the organization to operate from a unified business outlook.
• Support executive leadership by transforming complex operational and financial information into actionable business recommendations.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Business, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Five (5) or more years of experience leading, facilitating, or managing S&OP, IBP, demand planning, supply planning, operations planning, finance planning, or related business planning processes.
• Demonstrated experience leading or facilitating S&OP and/or IBP processes, including demand reviews, supply reviews, financial reconciliation activities, executive reviews, or similar cross-functional planning forums.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across commercial, supply chain, operations, manufacturing, and finance organizations without…