Associate Director, Integrated Business Planning Lead - (Brita)

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Your role at Clorox:

The IBP Lead (Brita) owns end-to-end integrated business planning for Brita, aligning near-, mid-, and long-term demand and supply plans with business objectives and enterprise strategy. This role partners across functions to translate demand, supply, and financial insights into clear recommendations, guide tradeoffs across service, inventory, cost, and capacity, and support executive decision-making. The Integrated Business Planning Lead for Brita, leads the planning team to balance near-term execution with long-term growth priorities.

In this role, you will:

Forecast, Demand & Supply Integration:  

• Own consolidation of the BU demand plan across planning streams, incorporating GM and functional feedback to deliver an integrated, accurate forecast. 

• Oversees tradeoff discussions across demand, capacity, inventory, service, and cost, proactively identifying key forecast tensions, tradeoffs, and decisions needed for discussion with the LT.  

• Maintain a real-time pulse on how demand is manifesting vs. latest forecast / expectations. 

Strategic Planning & Long-Term Focus: 

• Maintains a strong longterm (2–5 year) view of demand, supply, and network implications to support strategic business objectives and growth initiatives.  

• Partners with cross functional leaders to assess strategic initiatives (e.g., innovation, portfolio changes, network investments, capacity decisions).  

• Prioritize and assess high-impact scenarios, balancing risks, opportunities, and tradeoffs to achieve BU goals. 

• Understand and own IBP metrics & risks across the value chain and assign actions to improve execution. 

Cross Functional Collaboration:    

• Partner with Finance, Marketing, Sales, R&D, and Supply Chain to understand forecast drivers, identify risks and opportunities, and translate planning outputs into business insights. 

• Supports consistent IBP ways of working and continuous improvement of planning processes, tools, and governance, through strong partnership with IBP COE 

Executive Narrative & Decision Support  

• Translate demand, supply, and financial data into clear insights and recommendations for IBP forums, scenario reviews, and executive decisions. 

• Ensure there are building block assumptions (VBR) to explain forecast and actual shipments & consumption. 

Team Leadership & Prioritization  

• Directly manages the Brita S&OE Manager, Network Planning Manager and Business Planning Manager.  

• Set team priorities, balancing daily execution with strategic deliverables, and coach team members in technical rigor, business acumen, and executive communication. 

What we look for:

• 10+ years of progressive cross-functional experience in planning, demand, forecasting, sales, or marketing, including leadership of IBP/S&OP/S&OE processes.

• Experience managing and developing managers and/or senior individual contributors. 

• Strategic problem solver able to frame tradeoffs, set clear expectations, and drive results in complex, ambiguous environments.

• Strong financial acumen with experience managing a P&L, working capital, tradeoffs across cost, service, and inventory. 

• Strong communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex topics into actionable insights and build cross-functional and enterprise partnerships.

• Analytical rigor with a strong understanding of demand and supply planning drivers, scenarios, and risk mitigation strategies. 

Education Level/Degree: 

• Bachelor’s degree required (Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, Analytics, Business preferred) 

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Workplace type:

Hybrid

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[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: $157,600 - $316,700

–Zone B: $144,400 - $290,300

–Zone C: $131,300 - $263,900

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.

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