Business Planner

Job-ID: 15642; Location(s): McPherson, KS 

 

JOB DESCRIPTION SUMMARY

Take a primary role in the strategic planning process. Plan, develop, and implement strategies for all facets of business operations, including but not limited to budgeting, administration, project planning, resource planning, and supply chain. Have a strong focus on long-term growth and identify tactics and practices to accomplish goals. Establish benchmarks and metrics to evaluate progress and measure success. Work closely with stakeholders from across the organization.

 

 

JOB DESCRIPTION DETAILS

• Ensure all plans reconcile and meet corporate growth objectives. (i.e., master plan/MTP, budget, Metrics, product pruning)
• Analyze performance data, highlighting key findings.
• Monitor business and operation changes to ensure plans remain current and valid.
• Create executive-level summaries, presentation, and analysis that identify and make a compelling case for future opportunities, monthly progress to business metrics, project status and general business updates.
• Collaborate with stakeholders within and outside organization to develop and analyze opportunities.
• Perform business process analysis/business impact analysis (BPA/BIA), risk assessments of essential functions and/or information systems
• Foster core strategy development, large scale implementation and process optimization. (i.e., risk mitigation, strategy planning)
• Ensure reconciliation with financial goals such as revenue, margin, turns, and optimal inventory.
• Prepare and update the monthly performance metrics which would include main KPI’s and ad-hoc tracking
• Develop tools, manage, and recap monthly reporting for review by business partners, supporting required analysis and business decisions.
• Coordinate meetings with stakeholders, document and distribute meeting minutes, ensure actions items are completed on time, communicate project status, escalate issues to management as appropriate.
• Collaborate with leaders, business analysts, project managers, IT architects, technical leads, and other developers, along with internal and external customers, to understand requirements and develop needs according to business requirements.

 

Other

• Attends meetings as required and/or assigned.
• Performs other duties as required and/or assigned.
• Hybrid work environment

 

Special Job Dimensions

• Will be required to travel up to 25% of the time.