Director – Integrated Business Planning

Work Shift:

Day

Pay Type:

Salary

Hourly Rate (if applicable):

N/A

Targeted Base Salary Range (if applicable):

$143,100.00 - $193,100.00

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 Financial 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.

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
• Financial commitments (P&L, cash flow, working capital, capital spend)

Lead, coordinate and orchestrate the full IBP governance cadence, including:

• Demand Review
• Almond Supply Review
• Supply Review
• Integrated Reconciliation/Management Review

Ensure IBP forums are decision-oriented, with clear visibility of:

• Risks and opportunities
• Ensure gaps between operational plans and financial commitments are surfaced early, quantified, and escalated with clear options and recommendations.
• Reinforce financial discipline by ensuring trade-offs are explicitly framed, decisions are documented, and outcomes are tracked (net profit and cash flow)
• Required executive decisions and ownership

Embed scenario planning as a core capability to proactively manage volatility related to demand shifts, crop variability, capacity constraints, and margin pressure.

Establish IBP as the single source of truth for enterprise volume, mix, capacity, inventory, and service assumptions.

Governance, Cadence & Decision Quality

Design and maintain enterprise planning and execution governance that ensures:

• Clear decision rights and accountability
• Consistent operating cadence across functions
• Executive focus on the highest-value issues

Improve decision quality by strengthening:

• Data integrity and assumption transparency
• Scenario comparison and trade-off visibility
• Alignment between strategic intent and execution reality

Prepare executive-level materials that are concise, insight-driven, and focused on actions and decisions.

Leadership & Development

Build, lead, influence, and develop teams cross-functionally through:

• Strong analytical capability
• Business and financial acumen
• Executive communication skills
• Influence without authority

Foster a culture of enterprise thinking, collaboration, and accountability.

Elevate IBP maturity across the organization by coaching functional leaders,

standardizing ways of working, and reinforcing ownership of commitments.

Serve 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)
• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in Integrated Business Planning:
  • Critical experience:
  • Demonstrated end-to-end IBP implementation experience
  • Worked across Sales, Operations, Finance and Supply Chain
  • Nice to have: PMI certifications and Six-Sigma (at least green belt)
• 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

Five leadership capability clusters will be critical:

• 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

​EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability

WHY BLUE DIAMOND?

In addition to working at the world’s largest, state-of-the-art almond manufacturer, we offer a safe and collaborative team environment, with numerous opportunities for free training and career advancement. Check out the BDG Benefits, Health & Wellness Guide HERE .

Grow your career. Partner with us. We Are the Almond People!

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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.