IBP Strategy & Governance Leader

Arclin USA LLC; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Arclin USA LLC seeks an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Leader in Alpharetta to unify demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial planning across the organization. You will drive the transition from traditional S&OP to a fully integrated planning framework and serve as governance lead for a 24-month horizon.

The role requires strong business acumen, analytics, executive presence, and change leadership to implement a sustainable IBP process across functions such as commercial, supply

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, Business, Analytics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Five (5) or more years of experience leading, facilitating, or managing S&OP, IBP, demand planning, supply planning, operations planning, finance planning, or related business planning processes.
• Demonstrated experience leading or facilitating S&OP and/or IBP processes, including demand reviews, supply reviews, financial reconciliation activities, executive reviews, or similar cross-functional planning forums.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive alignment across commercial, supply chain, operations, manufacturing, and finance organizations without direct reporting authority.
• Strong understanding of demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, capacity planning, operational planning, and financial planning relationships.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex operational and financial data into concise business recommendations for executive audiences.
• Advanced analytical, strategic thinking, presentation, and facilitation skills.
• Experience managing cross-functional initiatives and driving organizational change.
• Strong executive communication skills with demonstrated experience presenting to senior leadership teams.
• Experience working with ERP, planning, reporting, or business intelligence platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation, operationalization, and continuous improvement of Arclin's Integrated Business Planning process, translating executive vision into a repeatable monthly planning cadence.
• Design, document, and manage the monthly IBP calendar, including demand reviews, supply reviews, financial reconciliation, pre-IBP, and executive IBP meetings.
• Consolidate demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial inputs into a cohesive enterprise business plan with a focus on a 24-month planning horizon.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure alignment between commercial forecasts, supply capabilities, operational planning, and financial objectives.
• Lead the financial reconciliation process by aligning operational volume plans with financial forecasts and facilitating resolution of planning gaps across business functions.
• Identify material gaps to plan, challenge assumptions, and develop scenarios that clarify revenue, margin, service, inventory, and capacity tradeoffs.
• Prepare concise, executive-ready materials that clearly communicate recommendations, risks, opportunities, and required decisions.
• Present recommendations, business risks, scenario analyses, and tradeoff evaluations to senior leadership teams, influencing decisions without direct authority.
• Facilitate cross-functional working sessions and drive alignment among stakeholders prior to executive review meetings.
• Maintain decision logs, action owners, due dates, and risk tracking while escalating unresolved issues through established governance processes.
• Drive organizational adoption of new planning processes, governance standards, and decision-making frameworks through effective change management and stakeholder engagement.
• Ensure consistent execution of a sustainable and repeatable monthly planning cycle across business functions.
• Build process maturity through standard work, role clarity, governance structures, meeting effectiveness reviews, and participant training initiatives.
• Partner with Finance to establish one aligned set of planning assumptions, enabling the organization to operate from a unified business outlook.
• Support executive leadership by transforming complex operational and financial information into actionable business recommendations.

Skills

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Change leadership

Analytical capability

Strategic thinking

Presentation skills

Stakeholder influence

Education

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain or related field

Tools

ERP systems

SAP

Power BI

SQL

Job description

Arclin USA LLC seeks an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Leader in Alpharetta to unify demand, supply, inventory, capacity, and financial planning across the organization. You will drive the transition from traditional S&OP to a fully integrated planning framework and serve as governance lead for a 24-month horizon.

The role requires strong business acumen, analytics, executive presence, and change leadership to implement a sustainable IBP process across functions such as commercial, supply