Sr Integrated Business Planning Lead
Lamb WestonAbout the role
Location: Kennewick, WA
Job Requisition ID: Req-270922
Time Type: Full time
About Lamb Weston
You’ve probably enjoyed our fries without even knowing it! As a leading manufacturer in our industry, we inspire and bring people together with foods they love and trust. Our customer base includes international food service providers, restaurants, and households in over 100 countries around the world.
A highly innovative global corporation with a start-up mindset, we empower every individual to make a genuine difference. You’ll gain access to hands-on training to fuel your growth and success, explore opportunities for new solutions, and you’ll join a winning team of 10,000+ people all dedicated to raising the bar – together.
If you have a strong drive for results, a desire to help us bring the world together through our fries, and are ready for a fresh challenge, we want to hear from you.
Job Description Summary
The Senior IBP Lead plays a strategic, enterprise-level role within the Global Planning Center of Excellence, enabling Integrated Business Planning (IBP) through advanced analytics, scenario modeling, and decision support. This role serves as an insight originator and plan evaluator, synthesizing demand, supply, capacity, and financial data into forward-looking, decision-ready insights. It partners closely with Global IBP leadership to enhance decision quality, speed, and alignment, without owning the end-to-end process. Leveraging AI-enabled forecasting, predictive analytics, and external market sensing, the role integrates internal and external signals to anticipate disruptions, quantify risk, and translate uncertainty into actionable, scenario-based strategic recommendations.
Job Description
Strategic IBP Enablement & Integration
- Partner with Global S&OP leadership to enable and continuously improve IBP capabilities, outputs, and decision frameworks
- Integrate demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial data into holistic, enterprise-wide planning views
- Act as a plan evaluator, challenging assumptions and validating feasibility, trade-offs, and business impact
- Ensure alignment of planning assumptions and outputs across regions and functions
Advanced Scenario Planning & Predictive Insights
- Design and lead multi-scenario planning analyses incorporating both internal and external drivers
- Apply AI-enabled forecasting, predictive modeling, and external economic sensing to anticipate risks and opportunities
- Translate complex analytics into clear decision options, business impacts, and recommendations
- Develop leading indicators and early warning signals to improve planning responsiveness and forecast accuracy
Executive Decision Support & Storytelling
- Lead development of insight-driven content and scenarios for IBP forums
- Frame and quantify trade-offs across service, cost, inventory, and growth objectives
- Translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives tailored to executive audiences
- Act as a thought partner to senior leadership, improving the quality and speed of decision-making
Cross-Functional & Regional Collaboration
- Act as a central integrator across Supply Chain, Finance, Commercial, and Operations
- Facilitate alignment on assumptions, risks, and priorities across the enterprise
- Orchestrate inputs and perspectives to support cohesive, data-driven decision-making
- Build strong relationships to influence outcomes without direct authority
- Champion adoption of advanced planning capabilities, analytics, and AI-driven insights
Risk Management & Resilience
- Identify, quantify, and communicate enterprise risks across demand, supply, inventory, and financial dimensions
- Develop and evaluate mitigation strategies and scenario-based contingency plans
- Establish risk monitoring frameworks and proactive alert mechanisms
- Enable a risk-aware, forward-looking planning culture
Scope:
- Influences enterprise-level decisions supporting Global IBP processes
- Direct impact on multi-billion-dollar supply chain and financial planning outcomes
- Operates in a highly matrixed, global environment with regular executive interaction
- Serves as a key enabler of decision quality and planning maturity
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