Associate Business Planning Manager

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Alpharetta, GA - USA:
Pleasanton (CPC), CA - USA:
Durham, NC - USA (Hill Bldg) time type:
Full time posted on:
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Clorox is the place that’s committed to growth – for our people and our brands. Guided by our purpose and values, and with people at the center of everything we do, we believe every one of us can make a positive impact on consumers, communities, and teammates. Join our team.
** 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 continues validating its new, IBP capabilities, 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 critical for on-going success.
** In this role, you will:**
* ** Forecast ownership:
** Leverages Iris and develop demand forecast for the BU, incorporating in GM and functional feedback and adjusts as needed to arrive at an integrated and accurate plan
* ** Driver attribution and business analysis:
** Assesses and pressure tests key forecast drivers, seeking a deep understanding demand forecast driver attribution and their influence the forecast, risks, and opportunities.
* ** DP narrative design:
** Constructs BU Latest Estimated Demand Plan (LEDP) narrative with support from IBP lead, proactively identifying key forecast tensions, tradeoffs, and decisions needed for discussion in LEDP & Scenario Meeting and GM Signoff Meeting
* ** Demand scenario analysis:
** Drives scenario analysis, leveraging Iris Scenario Mgr. tool, identifying impact of changing demand drivers (e.g. pricing, promotion, marketing, and distribution) based on business acumen
* ** Risks & opportunities:
** Analyzes demand forecast impact of different risk / opportunity scenarios
* ** Scenario framing & response:
** Supports framing and strategy development against most likely impactful scenarios, in alignment with IBP Lead / Manager and BU LT
* ** Proactive communication:
** Conducts proactive cross-functional outreach to understand forecast and key drivers, extract business insights, understand risks & opportunities, correctly incorporate adjustments to lock DP scenario, and explain the output of the model to the business
* ** Input coordination:
** Reviews and validates inputs and, if needed, holds input owners accountable for delivery, collecting updates via standardized tools, templates, and processes
* ** Tool feedback:
** Provides feedback to the IBP hub on Iris tool functionality
* ** Community of practice:
** Actively foster and contribute to a community of like practitioners
* ** Data quality:
** Flags data quality and holds input owners and data stewards accountable for inputs that materially impact forecast quality
* ** Model deployment:
** Runs Iris model, sense checks results and predictions, and creates LER LE DP decomposition report to share with customer team and finance
* ** Tool / data collaboration:
** Works closely with IBP hub and functions to ensure tool robustness and data availability and granularity at necessary level to feed the demand forecast
* ** Actuals analysis:
** Analyzes actuals via Rearview Mirror, routinely monitoring forecast accuracy & bias
** What we look for:
*** BA or equivalent in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Science, or Predictive Analytics, Masters preferred
* 5+ yrs industry experience, CPG / fast moving consumer preferred
* Recent S&OP / demand planning experience
* Deep experience in statistical modeling / predictive analytics
* Experience interfacing and influencing across multiple functions
* Preference:
Experience in a customer-facing role
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