Sr Director, GPO Integrated Business Planning

Sr Director, GPO Integrated Business Planning

Location:

Milford, MA, United States (USA).

Our Center for Process Excellence team is on a mission to improve business outcomes and employee experiences by driving step‑change improvements in critical enterprise processes, and the technology and analytics supporting these.

As the Sr Director, Global Process Owner, Integrated Business Planning, you will be responsible for the enterprise‑wide implementation of Integrated Business Planning processes (e.g., Portfolio, Demand, Supply, Finance, and Executive reviews) across all BUs and functions, as well as the implementation of tools to support these processes (e.g., SAP IBP, ML forecasting, Celonis).

You will lead a cross‑functional team, collaborate closely with global business stakeholders at all levels, and draw on your domain knowledge and change leadership experience to design, test, deploy, and drive adoption of new processes and systems.

This role reports to the VP, Enterprise Process Excellence.

• Lead a cross‑functional team of subject‑matter experts with both business and technology backgrounds.
• Work with leaders across business units and corporate functions to develop a good understanding of current processes and systems.
• Identify best practices to be adopted into current business processes.
• Create a prioritized roadmap of changes to be introduced, working with both business leaders and other Process Excellence teams to reach alignment.
• Design and validate proposed changes.
• Deploy new processes and functionality, supported with appropriate communication and change management.
• Measure maturity, adoption and adherence, execute interventions to drive improvement where necessary.
• Develop and attract best‑in‑class talent.

• 12+ years of progressive experience in demand planning, supply planning, financial planning, and/or portfolio management.
• Experience deploying Integrated Business Planning processes and systems in a complex, global organization.
• Process discovery, design, and implementation experience.
• Proven track record of managing cross‑functional teams and projects.
• Strong influencing skills, proven ability to work across organizational boundaries, driving change and harmonization across a global organization.
• Proven track record of solving problems, breaking down barriers and delivering results ahead of schedule.
• Strong written and verbal communication.

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory‑dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well‑being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.