Director, Integrated Business Planning

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Enterprise Integrated Business Planning Leadership

Governance Cadence & Decision Quality:

Owns and continuously improves Blue Diamonds end-to-end IBP framework ensuring tight integration between:

• Strategic priorities and full year execution
• Demand supply and inventory planning
• Financial commitments (P&L cash flow working capital capital spend)

Lead coordinate and orchestrate the full IBP governance cadence including:

• Demand Review
• Almond Supply Review
• Supply Review
• Integrated Reconciliation/Management Review

Ensure IBP forums are decision-oriented with clear visibility of:

• Risks and opportunities
• Ensure gaps between operational plans and financial commitments are surfaced early quantified and escalated with clear options and recommendations.
• Reinforce financial discipline by ensuring trade-offs are explicitly framed decisions are documented and outcomes are tracked (net profit and cash flow)
• Required executive decisions and ownership

Embed scenario planning as a core capability to proactively manage volatility related to demand shifts crop variability capacity constraints and margin pressure.

Establish IBP as the single source of truth for enterprise volume mix capacity inventory and service assumptions.

Governance Cadence & Decision Quality

Design and maintain enterprise planning and execution governance that ensures:

• Clear decision rights and accountability
• Consistent operating cadence across functions
• Executive focus on the highest-value issues

Improve decision quality by strengthening:

• Data integrity and assumption transparency
• Scenario comparison and trade-off visibility
• Alignment between strategic intent and execution reality

Prepare executive-level materials that are concise insight-driven and focused on actions and decisions.

Leadership & Development

Build lead influence and develop teams cross-functionally through:

• Strong analytical capability
• Business and financial acumen
• Executive communication skills
• Influence without authority

Foster a culture of enterprise thinking collaboration and accountability.

Elevate IBP maturity across the organization by coaching functional leaders

standardizing ways of working and reinforcing ownership of commitments.

Serve as a change/transformation leader shifting mindsets from functional optimization to enterprise value optimization.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

Education & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Business Finance Supply Chain Engineering or equivalent (MBA preferred)
• Ideal with PMI and Six Sigma certifications (at least green belt)
• 10 years of progressive leadership experience in:
  • Integrated Business Planning / S&OP
  • Strategy execution or enterprise transformation
  • Cross-functional program leadership
• Experience in asset-intensive demand/supply-driven environments (CPG food agriculture manufacturing preferred)

Technical & Business Skills

• Deep understanding of IBP maturity models and best practices
• Strong business acumen with the ability to translate operational plans into value creation impacts
• Experience with ERP planning and analytics platforms (e.g. SAP BI solutions AI tools including Claude)
• Ability to synthesize complex data into clear executive-level insights

Leadership & Interpersonal Skills

Five leadership capability clusters will be critical:

• Enterprise Perspective & Strategic Agility: Systems thinking dealing with ambiguity
• Decision Framing & Executive Influence: Drive for results influence without authority
• Operating Model & Process Leadership: Process management
• Talent Multiplication & Coaching: Developing direct reports building effective teams
• Change Leadership & Resilience: Leading through change perseverance continuous learning

Success Metrics

• IBP is viewed as the primary enterprise decision-making forum by 1Q 2027
• Clear linkage between strategy operational plans and financial outcomes
• Improved predictability of margin inventory and cash performance
• Strong executive confidence in planning assumptions and trade-off decisions
• Tangible improvements in business performance driven by IBP-led decisions

SUPERVISORY REQUIREMENTS

N/A

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Office demands include extensive use of telephone and computer.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Fast-paced in a dynamic growing environment. Occasional Travel.

Blue Diamond Growers is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer

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WHY BLUE DIAMOND

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