Associate Director, Integrated Business Planning - Network Planning Food​/Burt's

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The IBP Associate Director is a critical leadership role within the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) organization, responsible for owning the end-to-end supply, and production planning integration for the business unit. This role serves as the primary bridge between strategy and execution, ensuring near , mid , and long term plans are aligned to enterprise strategic objectives.

This leader will own the forecast, and supply/production planning integration, while guiding the team’s day-to-day priorities, removing obstacles, and elevating the quality of insights, planning narratives, and decision support provided to senior leadership. The role acts as a thought partner to the IBP Director, supporting strategic integration, executive narrative building, and cross functional alignment across the business.

• Owns the integrated supply, and production planning process, ensuring alignment across forecast, capacity, inventory, and financial outcomes.
• Serves as the single point of accountability for translating demand signals into feasible, optimized supply and production plans across planning horizons.
• Ensures plans are unbiased, risk‑informed, and aligned with long‑term strategic objectives.

• Oversees forecasting and scenario development, ensuring appropriate network optimization, risk/opportunity identification, and assumptions.
• Ensures supply, network, and production plans are robust, executable, and aligned to demand scenarios and financial commitments.
• Leads tradeoff discussions across capacity, inventory, service, and cost, escalating only materially differentiated options to senior leadership.

• Maintains a strong long‑term (2–5 year) view of demand, supply, and network implications to support strategic business objectives and growth initiatives.
• Partners with cross‑functional leaders to assess strategic initiatives (e.g., innovation, portfolio changes, network investments, capacity decisions).
• Ensures planning outputs support strategic decision‑making rather than solely short‑term execution.

• Directly manages the Network Planning Managers (4 FTE’s) for Food and Burt's Bees
• Sets clear priorities and direction for the team, balancing daily execution needs with strategic deliverables.
• Coaches and develops team members to elevate technical rigor, business acumen, and executive communication.
• Ensures consistency, quality, and cadence across supply, and planning deliverables.

• Partners closely with the IBP Director to build integrated planning narratives, executive materials, and business storytelling.
• Synthesizes complex demand, supply, and financial data into clear insights, risks, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
• Prepares content for IBP forums, scenario reviews, leadership discussions, and executive decision moments.

• Acts as a trusted planning partner to Finance, Marketing, Sales, Operations, and Supply Chain leadership.
• Drives proactive cross‑functional engagement to surface risks early and ensure alignment on assumptions and actions.
• Supports consistent IBP ways of working and continuous improvement of planning processes, tools, and governance.

• 10+ years of progressive experience in Integrated Business Planning, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Network Planning, or related…