Integrated Business Planning Leader

Requisition Number: 65313

 

Corning is vital to progress – in the industries we help shape and in the world we share.

 

We invent life-changing technologies using materials science. Our scientific and manufacturing expertise, boundless curiosity, and commitment to purposeful invention place us at the center of the way the world interacts, works, learns, and lives.

 

Our sustained investment in research, development, and invention means we’re always ready to solve the toughest challenges alongside our customers. 

 

Corning’s businesses are ever evolving to best serve our customers, industries, and consumers. Today, we accelerate and transform life sciences, mobile consumer electronics, optical communications, display, and automotive markets. We are changing the world with: 

•    Trusted products that accelerate drug discovery, development, and delivery to save lives
•    Damage-resistant cover glass to enhance the devices that keep us connected
•    Optical fiber, wireless technologies, and connectivity solutions to carry information and ideas at the speed of light
•    Precision glass for advanced displays to deliver richer experiences 
•    Auto glass and ceramics to drive cleaner, safer, and smarter transportation 

Scope of Position

Integrated Business Planning (IBP) is a formal, decision-making process led by senior leadership to evaluate and synchronize portfolio, demand, inventory, supply, and financial plans over a 24+ month rolling horizon.  It is a demand-driven, assumptions-based, aggregate planning process, executed monthly with five sequential steps: Portfolio Management Review (PMR), Demand Review (DR), Supply Review (SR), Reconciliation Review (RR), and Management Business Review (MBR).

 

The IBP Leader owns the IBP (Advanced SIOP) process.  Leading this process includes process design, training, continuous improvement, change management, and process execution.  The IBP Leader works with senior leadership to ensure that the process is sufficiently resourced with executive owners, process leaders, and financial partners.  The role ensures the IBP process effectiveness and integration with business systems and corresponding processes.  The role is also the process leader for the RR and MBR.  In this capacity, the IBP Leader facilitates senior leadership to resolve supply chain imbalances, reconcile business and financial plans, and align resources for the successful execution of a single plan, to which all functions are aligned.  The role requires a high degree of business acumen, process discipline, objectivity, and strong communication skills in an executive setting.

Responsibilities

• Owns the design and integrity of the business’s IBP process
• Leads monthly, aggregate planning process and delivers an integrated (portfolio, demand, inventory, supply, financial) plan that is both realistic and credible
• Process leader for the RR and MBR, responsible for review preparation and facilitation
• Collaborates with PMR, DR, SR process leaders to form a cohesive team focused on recommendations and action plans that are unbiased and optimized for the business as a whole
• Aligns the review cycle to the expectations of the executive owners
• Builds a culture of trust, accountability, and decisiveness
• Champions process discipline, adhering to the process framework (deviations are true exceptions, not the norm)  
• Maintains process documentation, including standard views/templates to be used in the reviews
• Solicits feedback on process effectiveness and drives continuous improvement
• Develops an administers training plan for process owners, leaders, and participants
• Ensures that only valid and realistic plans are approved by executive leadership and is willing to point out where expectations are unrealistic
• Comprehends balance within the business unit enabling recommendations on best fit solutions with consideration to customer, corporate stake holders, strategy and capability

Required Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, engineering, or supply chain degree; MBA is desired
• 10+ years Integrated Business Planning experience
• Cross-functional