Integrated Business Planning Manager
Kraken Robotics Inc.Kraken Roboticsis currently recruitingforan Integrated Business Planning Manager to join our Canada, UK, or Denmark office with the option of working remoting from these locations.
The Integrated Business Planning
Manager is responsible for the development, implementation, and ongoing management of the organization’s Integrated Business Planning capability across a complex multinational matrix e
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nvironment. The role is accountable for establishing a robust planning framework that aligns strategic priorities, operational demand, resource capacity, and execution plans across functions, regions, and business units. Acting as the process owner for the operational planning elements of IBP, the role ensures a single, integrated view of business demand, resource requirements, organizational capacity, and delivery commitments.
Working in close partnership with the Vice President FP&A and Finance team, the IBP Manager ensures that operational plans are translated into integrated financial plans, enabling informed decision-making, proactive risk management, and achievement of business objectives. The role serves as the focal point for driving planning discipline, organizational alignment, scenario modelling, and data-driven decision making across the enterprise. ROLES AND RESPONSBILITIES
Integrated Business Planning Ownership Design, implement, and continuously improve the organization’s Integrated Business Planning framework. Establish and maintain a common planning methodology, planning calendar, governance structure, and operating model. Ensure alignment between strategic objectives, operational plans, resource requirements, and financial outcomes.
Drive consistent planning practices across all regions, functions, and business units. Act as the custodian of the IBP process, ensuring adherence and continuous maturity development. Resource & Capacity Planning Working alongside our People & Culture and business management teams: Lead the development and management of enterprise-wide resource and capacity planning processes.
Create a consolidated view of organisational capacity, utilisation, capability requirements, and future demand. Identify capacity constraints, capability gaps, and resource risks affecting business performance. Facilitate proactive decisions regarding hiring, deployment, outsourcing, investment, and prioritisation.
Work with functional leaders to balance demand against available capacity and strategic priorities. Develop rolling capacity forecasts and resource plans to support short, medium, and long-term business objectives.
Demand
Planning & Portfolio Alignment Consolidate demand signals from business units, customers, functions, and strategic initiatives. Ensure demand forecasts are evaluated against available capacity and operational constraints. Support prioritization decisions through scenario planning and trade‑off analysis. Create visibility of demand pipelines and future workload requirements. Facilitate alignment between growth ambitions, transformation initiatives, and delivery capability.
Financial Integration
Partner closely with the Vice President FP&A to translate operational plans into integrated financial plans and forecasts. Ensure resource plans, demand forecasts, and capacity assumptions are reflected accurately within budgeting and forecasting processes. Provide operational assumptions and planning intelligence to support financial modelling.
Support the development of integrated forecasts, annual operating plans, and strategic planning cycles. Ensure consistency between operational planning outputs and financial commitments.
Scenario
Planning & Decision Support Develop planning models and analytical tools to evaluate alternative business scenarios. Support executive decision-making through capacity assessments, investment evaluations, and resource optimization analysis. Quantify operational risks, opportunities, and potential impacts to strategic objectives. Facilitate scenario planning exer