Integrated Business Planning Lead - Supply Chain & Ops (Senior Manager)

In our team you will:

• Learn at the forefront of the industry, provide actionable insights to the world's top organizations, helping them address priority C-suite issues with strategies and improvements they can execute with speed and at scale.

• Work in a central role enabling our Planning capabilities in working with some of the best global companies in the world, responsible for helping the CSCO/COO, and their business partners, address some of the critical business issues faced today, including:
  • Integrated Business Planning (IBP)—Help clients drive alignment across their sales, operations, and finance teams by deploying IBP solutions that improve collaboration, forecasting accuracy, and agility.
  • Supply chain strategy & segmentation (operating model, process design, etc.)
  • Strategic cost reduction (zero-based supply chain)
  • Inventory optimization—Help clients refine inventory management by balancing service levels, lead times, and inventory costs using advanced planning tools and methodologies like IBP and MRP.
  • Control towers—Implementation and optimization of digital control towers to provide end-to-end supply chain visibility, enhancing responsiveness and decision-making through real-time data.
  • Platform-driven transformation (technology strategy, systems implementation, etc.)—Enable organizations to implement advanced planning platforms (e.g., SAP IBP, Oracle Cloud SCM, Kinaxis, BlueYonder) to automate and optimize planning processes.
  • Sustainable and resilient supply chain (risk, performance, innovation, diversity, sustainability)—Assist in embedding sustainability and risk management into planning processes, balancing resilience with cost and efficiency.
  • Advanced analytics & AI—Utilize advanced analytics and AI-driven forecasting techniques to support predictive demand planning and scenario analysis, ensuring flexibility in rapidly changing market conditions.
  • Capacity planning & production scheduling—Work with clients to optimize production scheduling and capacity planning, reducing bottlenecks and improving throughput in line with demand fluctuations.

In this role you will:

• Understand and communicate the critical importance of Supply Chain & Operations functions to our Clients’ strategic vision and how they can drive business value. Concisely and convincingly conveying the central business importance of effective planning to client leadership

• Design and prove the strategic value case for Supply Chain & Operations planning transformation programmes. Act as the link between the executive leadership and operational delivery divisions of our clients to ensure detailed and advanced transformation programmes deliver their full strategic value. This will include, but not be limited to, the selection (based on a strategic assessment of business needs) and implementation of solutions such as SAP, Oracle, Blue Yonder, Kinaxis, o9 Solutions.

• Lead projects and delivery teams in our Supply Chain Planning group to formulate and execute customer-centric planning strategies

• Lead the comprehensive development and optimization of planning frameworks and drive the integration of advanced planning solutions and tools, such as IBP (Integrated Business Planning) and AI-powered forecasting, to enhance responsiveness and flexibility. These frameworks will cover the full end-to-end value chain of the business

Set yourself apart:

• Supply chain technology and digital disruptor awareness, including but not limited to SAP, S4/IBP, Kinaxis, BlueYonder, o9 Solutions, intelligent automation, Internet of Things (IoT), blockchain and analytics, etc.; other specific systems / applications relevant from previous experience
• Experience in Consumer Goods and Retails is preferred, along with Natural Resources, Energy, Utilities, Manufacturing, High-Tech (including Aerospace & Defense), Chemicals, and Logistics.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Functional experience should include some of the following: integrated business planning, sales and operations planning, distributed order management, inventory management, demand planning, supply planning, distribution and logistics, transport sourcing, global trade management
• 10-15 years consulting and/or project delivery experience including delivery to agreed scope, time scales and budgets from a top tier consulting company or blue-chip organisation

Here’s what you need:

• Minimum of 8 years of experience working on Supply Chain initiatives
• External experience at a consulting firm in a role equivalent to Senior Manager level within the industry
• A Bachelor’s Degree