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Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Governance Director

AT Constellation Brands
Constellation Brands

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Governance Director

Chicago, IL

Job Description

Position Summary

To deliver continued results as an organization and create resiliency amongst the industry, a robust Integrated Business Planning process is key to its success. The Director of, Integrated Business Planning Governance plays a critical role by providing the structure, processes, and oversight needed to ensure that the operational, commercial and finance planning is effective, efficient, and aligned with the organization's strategic goals across all IBP Planning horizons (i.e. Advanced Planning, S&OP, S&OE) for the entire Beer Division.

In this role this individual will be responsible for driving effective IBP governance and process discipline by:

  • Alignment and Accountability: Governance ensures that all parts of the organization are aligned with the overall business strategy. It establishes clear roles and responsibilities, ensuring accountability at all levels of the planning process.

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  • This includes influencing many levels up through Executive leadership to ensure we can deliver short term to long term business targets and objectives.
  • Decision-Making: Effective governance provides a structured framework for decision-making. It helps in prioritizing initiatives, allocating resources efficiently, and making informed decisions that align with strategic objectives.
    • S&OE - Drive tactical decisioning with fulfillment, production scheduling, resource allocation, and customer service.
    • S&OP -Drive strategic decisions around demand, supply, production and financial planning to meet business targets.
    • NPI - Drives strategic decisions on new product introduction.
    • Strategic Planning - Drive decisions around capacity planning, network design, supplier planning and risk management
  • Risk Management: Governance frameworks help identify, assess, and mitigate risks associated with business planning. This proactive approach to risk management ensures that potential issues are addressed before they impact the business. Examples include:
    • Ensuring proper levels of redundancy in capabilities as well as establishing risk mitigation plans in the event of issues to allow for better business continuity.
  • Performance Monitoring: Governance structures facilitate the monitoring and evaluation of performance against the plan. This ongoing assessment helps in identifying areas for improvement and ensuring that the business remains on track to achieve its goals.
  • Communication and Collaboration: Governance promotes effective communication and collaboration across different departments and functions. It ensures that everyone is working towards common goals and that there is a shared understanding of the business priorities.
  • Compliance and Control: Governance ensures that the business planning process complies with relevant laws, regulations, and internal policies. It establishes controls to safeguard the integrity of the planning process, and the accuracy of the information used.
  • Continuous Improvement: A strong governance framework supports continuous improvement by encouraging feedback and learning from past experiences. It helps in refining processes and strategies to enhance future planning efforts.
  • Driving Alignment across Planning horizon: This role will be responsible for driving alignment and fluidity across all three planning horizon governances- advanced planning, S&OP, S&OE. The role is critical in bridging the different functions.
  • New Product Strategy: Build a robust new product route to market strategy that unlocks commercial capabilities with speed and quality.
  • Talent Management: Build a diverse, highly agile team focused on successful outcomes to be an incubator of ideas, determining innovative ways of working to collaborate cross functionally to achieve results.
    • Identify the capabilities needed to meet the development of the Planning teams. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities.
    • Motivate others to develop their capabilities and fulfil their personal potential. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organization through formalized training, clear and concise operating model overview, mentoring and other informal methods.
    • Set clear performance expectations and provide regular feedback to team members to ensure optimal performance.
    • Manage a team of 9+ professionals.

  • Success Metrics:

    • Operational Excellence- IBP process effectiveness, Time to decision, Decision ROI
    • Planning Accuracy/Adherence
    • Delivery of annual targets

    Working Relationships:

    • Reports to: Sr Director, Advanced Planning
    • Direct Reports:
      • Manager, Sales & Operations Planning
      • Manager, Sales & Operations Execution
      • Manager, New Products
    • Key Interfaces:
      • Beer Leadership Team
      • Growth
      • Commercial (Brand Mktg, SET, Sales)
      • Supply Chain (Procurement, Logistics, Mfg., Engineering/Project Mgt)
      • Finance (FP&A, Commercial, Ops)
      • Beer Division Distributors/Suppliers

    Role Expertise

    • Bachelor's degree required, concentration in Supply Chain Management preferred and/or 12+ years of Supply Chain experience with inclusive of 3+ years management experience.
    • Proven knowledge of standard concepts, practices, and procedures within the CPG, preferably Beverage Alcohol, industry.
    • Strong collaborator with cross-functional teams from Strategy, Commercial, Supply Chain, finance, and digital.
    • Talent management experience and demonstrated results in managing and developing a team of strong skilled professionals required.

    Planning Expertise

    • 5+ years of Integrated Business Planning execution experience in high functional processes
    • High level of business acumen is required, including the knowledge and ability to have an E2E holistic perspective.
    • Excellent leadership and influencing skills with cross-functional teams, which may have disparate opinions and agendas, developing common outcomes, strategies and plans that drive change and turning vision into action. Builds a sense of working team goals, focusing working team on those ends while balancing trade-offs in each stakeholder community.
    • Deep understanding of technology enablement and current planning technology tools (i.e. o9, Blue Yonder, SAP)
    • Comfortable with process discipline and process adherence, and able to identify and take opportunities to develop, further and strengthen a process.

    Individual Skills

    • Strategic mindset - able to see big picture and future direction of the business, then translate into achievable new business development opportunities.
    • Leadership - Set the direction for the team from company/department visions/strategies and inspire the team to achieve goals.
    • Communication - Effectively transmit ideas, instructions, opinions, or emotions to others; deconstruct information into smaller categories in order to draw conclusion at an executive level.
    • Business Acumen - Ability to understand and interpret business situations, make informed decisions, and take effective actions. Includes understanding of business operations, financials, technical requirements and industry specific concepts.
    • Adaptive - Enable flexibility and support that fits team members unique needs. Ability to continually grow from their experiences, adapt to new situations within the organizations/industry and adopt different mindsets.
    • Decision making - Critical thinking, problem-solving, creativity, and information processing. Set the pace for team and highlight the route each team member is expected to take.
    • Integrity - Supporting teams in tough times, taking responsibility for issues under their purview and helping others without expecting something in return.

    Mindsets & Behaviors

    • Passion to challenge the status quo and find new solutions and drive out of the box ideas - loves and embraces change.
    • Believes in a non-hierarchical culture of collaboration, transparency, safety, and trust.
    • Not afraid to "roll up the sleeves" and seeks to go outside comfort zone to learn - pushes teams to do the same.
    • Empowers others to fail, learn, and grow.
    • Comfortable and experience bringing structure to ambiguity.
    • Possesses a spirit of intellectual curiosity, creativity, and innovation.

    Physical Requirements/Work Environment

    Must be at least 21 years of age. Must be able to sit and/or stand for long periods of time and work on a computer for extended periods. Lifting may be required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

    Location
    Chicago, Illinois

    Additional Locations

    Job Type
    Full time

    Job Area
    Supply Chain

    The salary range for this role is:
    $154,100.00 - $251,400.00

    This is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. Our compensation is based on cost of labor. For remote locations or positions open to multiple locations, the pay range may reflect several US geographic markets, including the lowest geographic market minimum to the highest geographic market maximum. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee's pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, the prevailing minimum wage for the location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. At Constellation Brands, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at the high end of the range for their role, and compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate. We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and any other benefits to eligible employees.

    Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole discretion, consistent with the law.

    Equal Opportunity

    Constellation Brands is committed to a continuing program of equal employment opportunity. All persons have equal employment opportunities with Constellation Brands, regardless of their sex, race, color, age, religion, creed, sexual orientation, national origin or citizenship, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition (cancer or genetic characteristics), marital status, gender (including gender identity or gender expression), familial status, military or veteran status, genetic information, pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related conditions (or any other group or category within the framework of the applicable discrimination laws and regulations).

    Client-provided location(s): Chicago, IL, USA
    Job ID: Constellation_Brands-R-37064
    Employment Type: Full Time