Associate Business Planning Manager (Evergreen – For Future Openings)

The Clorox Company; Alpharetta (GA); Hybrid; USD 104,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dynamic leader to enhance Integrated Business Planning (IBP) capabilities. This role is pivotal in driving demand forecasting and business analysis, ensuring accurate planning that impacts financial health. The ideal candidate will synthesize data into actionable strategies, leveraging strong analytical skills and experience in statistical modeling. Join a company that values growth and inclusion, where your contributions can significantly impact the business and your professional journey. This is an exciting opportunity to be part of a transformation journey in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Robust health plans

401(k) program with company match

Flexible time off benefits

Inclusive fertility/adoption benefits

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of industry experience in CPG or fast-moving consumer goods.
• Deep experience in statistical modeling and predictive analytics.

Responsibilities

• Drive enhancement of IBP capabilities and demand forecasting.
• Conduct proactive cross-functional outreach to understand forecast drivers.

Skills

Statistical modeling

Predictive analytics

Financial acumen

Analytical skills

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional networking

Education

BA in Engineering

Masters preferred

Tools

Kinaxis

Iris tools

Job description

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. #CloroxIsThePlace

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 has embedded new Integrated Business Planning (IBP) capabilities including processes, systems and operating structures. 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 lynchpin for project success.

In this role, you will:

• Forecast ownership: Leverages system 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 of the demand forecast driver attribution and their influence on the forecast, while identifying risks and opportunities.
• DP narrative design: Constructs BU forecast narrative with support from director of IBP, proactively identifying key forecast tensions, tradeoffs, and decisions needed for discussion in IBP Meetings.
• Demand scenario analysis: Drives scenario analysis, identifying impact on financial and operating plan when changing demand drivers (e.g. pricing, promotion, marketing, and distribution).
• 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 business unit.
• Proactive communication: Conducts proactive cross-functional outreach to understand forecast and key drivers, extract business insights, understand risks & opportunities, correctly incorporate adjustments to lock new scenarios, 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 COE on IBP process and tools.
• Community of Practice: Actively foster and contribute to a community of like practitioners.
• Data quality: Performs regular data maintenance in demand planning systems and flags data quality and holds input owners and data stewards accountable for inputs that materially impact forecast quality.
• Tool / data collaboration: Works closely with IBP COE, Data Science and IT 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.
• 5-7 yrs industry experience, CPG / fast moving consumer preferred.
• Recent S&OP / demand planning experience.
• Deep experience in statistical modeling / predictive analytics (ML preferred).
• Experience interfacing and influencing across multiple functions.
• Experience in a customer-facing role.
• Forward-looking strategic thinking: Ability to synthesize disparate data into coherent, forward-looking business strategy and tactics for advancing business priorities, with LT support.
• Financial acumen: Strong financial acumen.
• Analytics / data mastery: Strong data science / analytical skillset, including:
• In depth understanding how a forecast model works, strengths / pitfalls of the ML model and the core elements of the model predictivity.
• Able to analyze and diagnose core forecast drivers and understand impact on forecast with Iris tools.
• High fluency / dexterity in working with data.
• Ability to recognize trends within data and translate into forecast narrative.
• Technical Aptitude: Demonstrated proficiency in using Kinaxis or similar demand planning tools.
• Customer operations: Deep understanding of both customer operations, with capacity to understand, explain, and reconcile demand drivers and how they interact to drive the business.
• Supply chain operations: Strong foundation in supply chain network management and operations.
• Ability to act fast paced environment.
• Ability to rapidly prioritize and adapt to change.
• Ability to network cross-functionally.

Workplace type:

Hybrid (3 days a week on site, 2 days work from home).

We seek out and celebrate diverse backgrounds and experiences. We’re looking for fresh perspectives, a desire to bring your best, and a non-stop drive to keep growing and learning.

At Clorox, we have a Culture of Inclusion. We believe our values-based culture connects to our purpose and helps our people be the best versions of themselves, professionally and personally. This means building a workplace where every person can feel respected, valued, and fully able to participate in our Clorox community. Learn more about our I&D program & initiatives here.

[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

– Zone A: $104,100 - $199,100 – Zone B: $95,500 - $183,300 – Zone C: $86,800 - $166,600.

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

Please apply directly to our job postings and do not submit your resume to any person via text message. Clorox does not conduct text-based interviews and encourages you to be cautious of anyone posing as a Clorox recruiter via unsolicited texts during these uncertain times.

To all recruitment agencies: Clorox (and its brand families) does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Clorox employees, including any members of our leadership team. Clorox is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.