Director, Integrated Business Planning

JOB OVERVIEW: Blue Diamond Growers is a grower‑owned cooperative made up of approximately 3,000 growers and is one of the world's leading almond processors and marketers, with $1.7B in annual revenue and products sold across the U.S. and in markets around the world. With a strong manufacturing footprint and deep agricultural roots, BDG is focused on delivering high‑quality almond products through operational excellence, innovation, and partnership. Reporting to the Chief Global Supply Officer, the role owns the end‑to‑end Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process (Demand, Almond Supply, Supply, Integrated Reconciliation), ensuring the company's most critical cross‑functional planning processes deliver measurable financial and operational results. The role acts as the partner for enterprise alignment—connecting strategy, demand, supply, inventory, and execution. IBP is positioned as the main management system of the business, enabling clear trade‑offs, disciplined decision‑making, and predictable value delivery. As a strategic business partner, the Director of IBP connects executive priorities with operational execution, ensuring the company can effectively balance growth, profitability, customer service, and supply chain performance. The role oversees the monthly IBP/S&OP process, develops scenario planning capabilities, and drives continuous improvement through analytics, technology, and process discipline. RESPONSIBILITIES: Enterprise Integrated Business Planning Leadership Governance, Cadence & Decision Quality Owns and continuously improves Blue Diamond's end‑to‑end IBP framework, ensuring tight integration between strategic priorities and full‑year execution, demand, supply, and inventory planning, and financial commitments (P&L, cash flow, working capital, capital spend). Leads, coordinates, and orchestrates the full IBP governance cadence, including Demand Review, Almond Supply Review, Supply Review, and Integrated Reconciliation/Management Review. Ensures IBP forums are decision‑oriented, with clear visibility of risks, opportunities, gaps between operational plans and financial commitments, and trade‑offs. Reinforces financial discipline by ensuring trade‑offs are explicitly framed, decisions documented, and outcomes tracked (net profit and cash flow). Embeds scenario planning as a core capability to proactively manage volatility related to demand shifts, crop variability, capacity constraints, and margin pressure. Establishes IBP as the single source of truth for enterprise volume, mix, capacity, inventory, and service assumptions. Governance, Cadence & Decision Quality (continued) Designs and maintains enterprise planning and execution governance that ensures clear decision rights, consistent operating cadence across functions, and executive focus on the highest‑value issues. Improves decision quality by strengthening data integrity, assumption transparency, scenario comparison and trade‑off visibility, and alignment between strategic intent and execution reality. Prepares executive‑level materials that are concise, insight‑driven, and focused on actions and decisions. Leadership & Development Builds, leads, influences, and develops cross‑functional teams through strong analytical capability, business and financial acumen, executive communication skills, and influence without authority. Fosters a culture of enterprise thinking, collaboration, and accountability. Elevates IBP maturity across the organization by coaching functional leaders, standardizing ways of working, and reinforcing ownership of commitments. Serves as a change/transformation leader, shifting mindsets from functional optimization to enterprise value optimization. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: Education & Experience Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Engineering, or equivalent (MBA preferred). Ideal with PMI and Six Sigma certifications (at least green belt). 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in Integrated Business Planning / S&OP, strategy execution or enterprise transformation, and cross‑functional program leadership. Experience in asset‑intensive, demand/supply‑driven environments (CPG, food, agriculture, manufacturing preferred). Technical & Business Skills Deep understanding of IBP maturity models and best practices. Strong business acumen with the ability to translate operational plans into value creation impacts. Experience with ERP, planning, and analytics platforms (e.g., SAP, BI solutions, AI tools including Claude). Ability to synthesize complex data into clear executive‑level insights. Leadership & Interpersonal Skills Enterprise Perspective & Strategic Agility: Systems thinking, dealing with ambiguity. Decision Framing & Executive Influence: Drive for results, influence without authority. Operating Model & Process Leadership: Process management. Talent Multiplication & Coaching: Developing direct reports, building effective teams. Change Leadership & Resilience: Leading through change, perseverance, continuous learning. Success Metrics IBP is viewed as the primary enterprise decision‑making forum by 1Q 2027. Clear linkage between strategy, operational plans, and financial outcomes. Improved predictability of margin, inventory, and cash performance. Strong executive confidence in planning assumptions and trade‑off decisions. Tangible improvements in business performance driven by IBP‑led decisions. SUPERVISORY REQUIREMENTS N/A PHYSICAL DEMANDS Office demands include extensive use of telephone and computer. WORK ENVIRONMENT Fast‑paced in a dynamic growing environment. Occasional travel. Blue Diamond Growers is an Equal Opportunity and E‑Verify Employer. Blue Diamond Growers (BDG) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. BDG provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status, or genetic information. BDG also complies with all provisions of the U.S. Government's Executive Order 11246 dated September 24, 1965 and the rules, regulations and relevant orders of the Secretary of Labor. #J-18808-Ljbffr