Integrated Business Planning Manager

Integrated Business Planning Manager Location: Winston-Salem, NC | Reports to: Chief Financial Officer | Full-time About Golding Since 1972, Golding Farms Foods has been making the sauces, condiments, and dressings that show up on grocery shelves and restaurant tables across North America. From our SQF-certified operations, we produce private label, branded, and co-manufactured products for retail and foodservice customers, pairing large-scale production with small-batch quality. We're growing, and we need a planning leader who can help us grow smarter. The Opportunity Golding Farms Foods is seeking an Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Manager to lead the end-to-end planning function. The IBP Manager is accountable for aligning demand, supply, and production scheduling into a single consensus plan that governs both near-term execution over a rolling 12-week horizon and longer-term planning over a rolling 12-month horizon. Reporting to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO), this individual contributor role partners closely with Sales, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Production Scheduling teams and owns the monthly IBP cycle that connects commercial, operational, and financial plans. The role also carries direct ownership of inventory, with accountability for balancing service levels against working capital. The ideal candidate is a hands-on leader who combines strong analytical capability and fluency with analytics, automation, and AI-enabled planning tools with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders, drive consensus, and translate plans into executable actions that improve service levels, inventory performance, operational efficiencies, and asset utilization. What You'll Do Integrated Business Planning Process Leadership · Own and facilitate the monthly IBP cycle, including product review, demand review, supply review, integrated reconciliation, and management business review. · Lead a weekly short-term planning cadence for the rolling 12-week horizon and a monthly IBP cycle for the rolling 12-month horizon, ensuring near-term demand, supply, and production decisions stay reconciled to the 12-month plan and that changes in either horizon are communicated promptly. · Identify gaps, risks, and opportunities between plans; use analytics and simulation tools to develop data-driven scenarios and recommend trade-off decisions to senior leadership. · Establish and maintain the IBP calendar, governance, decision rights, and meeting standards. · Partner closely with the Production Scheduling team to ensure the master production schedule reflects the approved consensus plan across the rolling 12-week horizon, align on capacity constraints and schedule stability rules, and quickly resolve disruptions that affect plan attainment. · Partner with Sales, Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Procurement to ensure plan ownership and accountability. Demand Planning Oversight · Direct the development of statistical, machine learning–driven, and consensus demand forecasts at the appropriate levels of aggregation. · Ensure commercial intelligence, promotions, new product introductions, and phase-outs are incorporated into the forecast, and apply demand-sensing analytics using order, point-of-sale, and market signals to refine the near-term forecast. · Monitor forecast accuracy and bias through automated performance tracking; lead root-cause analysis and continuous improvement of forecasting methods. · Facilitate the demand review and secure commercial alignment on the unconstrained demand plan. Supply Planning Oversight · Oversee translation of the demand plan into supply requirements, including materials, capacity, and inventory plans. · Lead rough-cut capacity planning and constraint analysis, using scenario modeling and optimization tools, to identify resource, material, and supplier limitations. · Set and maintain analytics-drive…

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