Global Integrated Business Planning Manager

The primary role of the Global Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Manager is to support the Global IBP Lead and the relevant stakeholders in establishing and running the IBP Process for the assigned Division or Business Unit (BU).

More specifically, the IBP Manager focuses on coordinating activities, ensuring process adherence, and driving continuous improvement to achieve alignment between demand, supply, financial planning and strategic objectives.

Responsibilities:

Process Design

• Support the Global IBP Lead and BU Stakeholders in designing the IBP Review. Continuously improve process design and supporting templates
• Translate cross-industry best practices into implementable process improvement for the organization
• Solicit improvement input from all IBP stakeholders and filter them into design improvement of the global standard and templates
• Support the Global IBP Lead in acting as organization’s thought leader in the domain of IBP. Stay abreast of latest cross-industry best practices, connect with relevant external thought leaders and represent the organization’s IBP experience in external forums

Process Implementation and Execution

• Establish all IBP Reviews as per pre-agreed roadmap. Drive the continuous build-up and improvement of all process steps in order to reach the targeted process maturity level
• Support the Global IBP Lead in leading all relevant stakeholders through the change journey to achieve best-in-class process maturity
• Coordinate training, workshops, and change management activities to drive adoption.
• Identify process gaps and propose enhancements to improve IBP maturity.
• Collaborate with relevant stakeholders in improving quality and meaningfulness all of data sets fed into the IBP process
• Prepare material to support all IBP Reviews and support Review owners in selecting focus areas for effective decision making
• Facilitate or co-facilitate the assigned IBP Reviews for effective decision making
• Pass on key outcome and escalations across IBP Reviews, including short-term execution reviews (S&OE), for full end2end alignment and seamless decision-making across the process

Collaboration

• Set the highest collaboration standard with all relevant business and functional teams, with particular focus on Global BUs, Global Finance and Operations teams
• Support and counsel the BU Leaders in leveraging the IBP framework to achieve the defined strategic goals

Key Requirements:

Education:

Master in Business or Engineering studies or equivalent work experience

Experience:

At least 10 years of Supply Chain, Strategy or cross-functional professional experience.

At least 5 years of prior experience at Sr Manager or Director level in building up IBP Process in global, complex organizations

Skills:

Leadership: Stakeholder management, Collaboration, Results Oriented

Functional skills: process design and implementation, IBP/S&OP, Demand/Supply Planning, Strategy Deployment, Consulting senior leaders

Flexibility to attend calls covering multiple time-zones

Ability to travel up to 15%.

We are open to all candidates within any Asia Pacific countries where Olympus has a legal entity presence in same country.

We are deeply committed to fostering a respectful, fair, and welcoming workplace for all individuals, perspectives, and lifestyles. We believe in fostering a non-discriminatory, inclusive work environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging, in full compliance with legal standards. Empathy and unity are core to our company culture, empowering employees to contribute fully and flourish. We warmly encourage all who wish to bring their talents to Olympus to apply.