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 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.

• 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

• 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

Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days WFH

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