Integrated Business Planning Lead
Alameda, CA
Manufacturing /
Full-time /
On-site
The IBP Lead is a critical leadership position responsible for orchestrating and optimizing the Integrated Business Planning process across the organization. This role drives cross-functional collaboration, facilitates data-driven decision-making, and ensures alignment between strategic goals, financial targets, and operational execution. The IBP Lead champions continuous improvement within the IBP framework, striving for enhanced forecast accuracy, optimized resource allocation, and improved business performance, including the integration of strategic procurement capabilities to optimize the supply chain and financial outcomes.
Key Responsibilities: IBP Process Ownership & Development
- Design, implement, and maintain a robust and scalable IBP process, encompassing all five steps (Product Portfolio Review, Demand Review, Supply Review, Financial Reconciliation, and Management Business Review).
- Establish clear process documentation, governance structures, and key performance indicators (KPIs) to monitor and evaluate IBP effectiveness.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and effectiveness of the IBP process.
- Stay current with industry best practices in IBP and related planning disciplines, evaluating new tools, processes, and analytics.
Key Responsibilities: Cross-Functional Collaboration & Alignment
- Foster strong partnerships and collaboration across all functional areas, including Sales, Marketing, Finance, Supply Chain, Operations, Product Development, and Strategic Procurement.
- Facilitate IBP meetings, ensuring active participation, constructive dialogue, and consensus on plans, assumptions, risks, and opportunities.
- Act as a liaison between different functional areas to drive consensus and resolve imbalances in supply, demand, and financial plans.
- Ensure IBP decisions are aligned with strategic priorities and translate into actionable plans.
Key Responsibilities: Demand & Supply Integration:
- Oversee and enhance demand forecasting processes, ensuring accurate and up-to-date projections based on market trends, customer data, and historical sales.
- Coordinate with supply chain, operations, and strategic procurement teams to optimize production schedules, manage inventory levels, and identify potential bottlenecks, considering material availability and supplier capabilities.
- Drive the integration of data-driven insights into the IBP process, ensuring the accuracy and reliability of forecasts and plans.
- Lead scenario planning exercises to anticipate potential challenges and develop mitigation strategies for demand-supply imbalances.
Key Responsibilities: Strategic Procurement Integration
- Ensure that strategic procurement insights regarding material availability, lead times, cost trends, supplier capabilities, and risk profiles are fully integrated into the IBP process.
- Collaborate closely with the procurement sourcing team to align sourcing strategies with overall business demand and supply plans, optimizing for cost, quality, and delivery.
- Incorporate procurement's visibility into long-term supplier agreements and potential supply constraints into scenario planning and risk mitigation strategies.
- Work with procurement sourcing to identify and realize cost reduction opportunities that align with financial targets within the IBP framework.
- Facilitate/drive discussions on make-vs-buy decisions and the impact of procurement strategies on the overall supply chain and product portfolio.
Key Responsibilities: Financial Reconciliation & Business Performance
- Collaborate with finance to ensure IBP plans align with financial objectives, including revenue, margin, and inventory targets, considering the impact of procurement strategies.
- Facilitate the reconciliation of business and financial plans, ensuring a single, integrated plan is presented to senior leadership.
- Monitor and report on IBP performance, providing insights and recommendations for improving financial outcomes.
Key Responsibilities: Change Management & Capability Building
- Lead change management efforts to embed IBP as a core business process and foster a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Develop and deliver training programs to upskill teams on IBP principles, processes, and tools.
- Act as a coach and advocate, driving IBP discipline and accountability across the organization.
- Build and develop a high-performing IBP team (if applicable), providing coaching, mentoring, and professional development opportunities.
Required Skills & Qualifications: Education & Experience
- Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations, Finance, Industrial Engineering, or a related field. Master's degree or MBA is preferred.
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in Integrated Business Planning (IBP), Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), demand planning, supply chain management, strategic procurement, or related roles within a complex, global organization.
Required Skills & Qualifications: Technical Proficiency
- Proficiency in advanced planning tools and systems (e.g., SAP IBP, Anaplan, Kinaxis, Oracle, JDA, other).
- Strong understanding of ERP systems (e.g., NetSuite, SAP, ECC).
- Expertise in data analytics platforms and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).
- Advanced Excel modeling skills.
Required Skills & Qualifications: Analytical & Problem-Solving Skills:
- Strong critical thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to derive insights from complex data and translate them into actionable plans and recommendations.
Required Skills & Qualifications: Leadership & Communication:
- Excellent communication, presentation, and influencing skills, capable of engaging and aligning team members at all organizational levels, including senior leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive consensus.
- Strong negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
Required Skills & Qualifications: Business Acumen
- Deep understanding of business planning cycles, supply chain dynamics, financial forecasting, operational processes, and strategic procurement principles. Anticipate clinical/market trends, enabling future growth consistent with corporate strategies.
Required Skills & Qualifications: Business Impact
- Significant impact to current and future business performance through building management and organizational excellence (competence, processes, and supporting systems). Enable business growth through creation and management of outstanding capability.
Required Skills & Qualifications: Project & Change Management
- Proven experience leading complex projects and driving organizational change initiatives.
Required Skills & Qualifications: Certifications (Preferred):
- APICS (CSCP, CPIM), CPSM (Certified Professional in Supply Management), or other relevant supply chain/planning/procurement certifications.
Desired Attributes:
- Strategic mindset with the ability to connect detailed plans to overall business objectives.
- Results-oriented with a strong focus on driving continuous improvement and delivering tangible business value.
- Adaptability and resilience in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
- Ability to balance standardization with local flexibility in a global context.
- Proactive and self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership.
$185,000 - $250,000 a year
About GeneFab
GeneFab is a contract manufacturing and synthetic biology biofoundry focused on cell and gene therapies. GeneFab was formed in 2023 with a vision to combine industry leading expertise in synthetic biology with advanced cGMP capabilities in order to accelerate the development and commercialization of genetic medicines. GeneFab offers its customers an extensive technology platform and know-how that spans early stage product design, technical development, and cGMP compliant production. GeneFab's technology platform includes bioinformatic-guided discovery of cell type promoters, directed evolution of small molecule-regulated gene switches, and the engineering of highly sensitive kill switches for enhanced safety and control of cellular therapies.
We are committed to an inclusive and diverse GeneFab. We believe that different perspectives lead to better ideas, and better ideas allow us to better understand the needs and interests of our diverse GeneFab team. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives and are an equal opportunity employer.
