Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Governance Director

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.
  • 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