Global Integrated Business Planning Director

Global Integrated Business Planning Director

Job Category: Supply Chain Development and Optimization

Requisition Number: GLOBA
004711

• Posted :
  August 28, 2026
• Full-Time
• Hybrid

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Racine, WI

About Us

Founded in 1908, Merz is a successful, family-owned specialty healthcare company with a rich history. As a leading global aesthetics business, our award-winning portfolio of injectables, devices, and skincare products empowers healthcare professionals to enhance confidence through aesthetic medicine. Our purpose is to fuel confidence by helping people look better, feel better, and live better. We believe you do not have to choose between living life and making a living.

Live your best life with Merz Aesthetics.

A Brief Overview

The Director of Global Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is accountable for leading and advancing the end-to-end global Integrated Business Planning process across Merz Aesthetics. This strategic leadership role is responsible for aligning commercial, operational, supply, inventory, financial, and portfolio plans into a single integrated business plan that enables executive decision-making, supports growth objectives, and ensures supply chain resilience.

The Director serves as the process owner for the global IBP framework, establishing governance, performance management systems, planning standards, and organizational capabilities that drive cross-functional alignment and operational excellence. The role partners closely with Commercial, Finance, Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain leadership teams to balance customer service, growth, inventory, capacity, and financial objectives. In addition to owning the monthly IBP process, this position leads large-scale business transformation and process improvement initiatives focused on increasing planning maturity, improving operational effectiveness, standardizing business processes, and developing sustainable capabilities across the global organization.

The role requires strong strategic leadership, executive communication, business acumen, change management expertise, and demonstrated success leading complex cross-functional initiatives in a global pharmaceutical or medical device environment.

What You Will Do

• Integrated Business Planning Leadership
  • Own and lead the global Integrated Business Planning process across all business units and regions.
  • Establish and maintain IBP governance, standards, policies, and operating procedures.
  • Facilitate monthly Executive IBP meetings and decision‑making forums to guide strategic decisions.
  • Ensure alignment between strategic objectives, commercial plans, operational plans, and financial commitments.
  • Drive cross-functional consensus and accountability for business plans and performance outcomes.
  • Provide executive leadership with visibility to risks, opportunities, constraints, and scenario alternatives
• Demand & Commercial Integration
  • Partner with Commercial leadership to develop demand assumptions and market scenarios.
  • Lead consensus forecasting and demand review processes.
  • Challenge assumptions and identify forecast risks and opportunities.
  • Incorporate market intelligence, product launches, promotional plans, and portfolio changes into business planning activities.
  • Drive continuous improvement in forecast quality and planning effectiveness.
• Supply, Inventory & Capacity Planning
  • Align supply, capacity, inventory, and service strategies with business objectives.
  • Ensure inventory optimization balances service, financial, and operational requirements.
  • Lead supply‑demand balancing processes and executive decision‑making regarding constraints and trade‑offs.
  • Drive proactive identification and mitigation of supply chain risks.
  • Support strategic decisions regarding network…