Associate Business Planning Manager

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Your role at Clorox:

Clorox is on a transformation journey to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of its integrated business planning (IBP) processes with the objective of enhancing Clorox’s ability to provide a complete, unbiased, and objective understanding of how integrated planning actions impact BU financial health and the business as a whole.

As part of this transformation journey, Clorox is piloting its new, IBP capabilities within and is testing new processes, systems and operating structures to bring this new capability to life. We are looking for a dynamic leader who can help drive the enhancement of Clorox’s IBP capabilities and help build Clorox’s IBP capability for the future. This role will serve as a core part of the IBP team within the BU and be a lynchpin for project success.

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In this role, you will:

Be in charge of demand forecast analysis activities by accomplishing the following:

• Develop demand forecast for the Glad Business Unit (BU), incorporate General Manager (GM) and functional feedback as needed to arrive at an integrated and accurate plan. 

• Assess and pressure test key forecast drivers, seeking a deeper understanding of demand forecast driver attribution and their influence of the forecast, risks, and operations. 

• Identify key forecast tensions, tradeoffs, and decisions needed for discussion in Demand Scenario Lock Meeting and GM Alignment Meeting. 

• Be the single point of consolidation and articulation of full Glad Demand plan from different demand planning streams.

Additionally, you will be in charge of scenario coordination activities such as:   

• Drive scenario analysis, leveraging scenario manager tool, identifying impact of changing demand drivers (e.g. pricing, promo, marketing, and distribution) based on business acumen. 

• Analyze demand forecast impact of different risk and opportunity scenarios. 

• Support framing and strategy development against most likely impactful scenarios, in alignment with Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Lead / Mgr. and BU Leadership Team. 

You will work cross-functionally will be a key responsibility in this role including:

• Conduct proactive cross-functional outreach to understand forecast and key drivers, extract business insights, understand risks & opportunities, correctly incorporate overrides to lock DP scenario, and explain the output of the model to the business. 

• Review and validate inputs and, if needed, hold input owners accountable for delivery, collecting updates via standardized tools, templates, and processes. 

• Provide feedback to the IBP hub on tool functionality. 

• Actively foster and contribute to a community of like practitioners. 

You will be part of the following people management activities:

• Oversee demand planning forecast and scenario analysis in the BU, support team members and providing business guidance, framing support, and sense checks as needed.

• Line manage commercial planning team (e.g. performance evaluations) and coach, develop, and train team members. 

What we look for:

• Forward-looking strategic thinking: Ability to synthesize disparate data into coherent, forward-looking business strategy and tactics for advancing business priorities, with mgmt. / LT support
• Strong financial acumen
• Strong data science / analytical skillset, including: In depth understanding how a forecast model works, strengths / pitfalls