Now Hiring - Manufacturing Director Business Planning in Oakland, CA

The director of Business Planning oversees Clorox’s strategic and operational long-range and annual planning processes. As such, the candidate designs, implements, and executes the Corporate planning processes that ensure that the SBUs, Groups, and company deliver their strategic objectives, including its sales and profitability goals. The position works with the Corporate Finance team to ensure the company’s financial and operational plans and calendars are integrated and in sync.

This director reports to the corporate VP of Operations for the Enterprise Operations team and also directly with the Chief Operating Officer and Group Presidents to ensure that intra-group business planning processes for Group SBUs function well within the larger corporate context. This role will link strongly with SBU general managers, group squad leaders, and Group operations directors.

As a business planning director, he/she/they leads the analyses of emerging industry and category trends, competitive threats, and economic indicators that other SBUs leverage in their detailed planning, often working with groups like Enterprise Analytics. This leader works with the Enterprise Operations team to ensure that the SBUs, Groups, and company have the necessary performance metrics and cadence to operate effectively.

This role is an enterprise leader role ideal for candidates with future GM aspirations to provide earlier career visibility to strategy and business operations work across a large portfolio, but it is also appropriate for high-potential functional leaders looking to broaden their experience set with enterprise work.

• Develop, execute and continuously improve the LRP planning process, including capability planning, for the company, Groups, and SBUs.
• Develop, execute and continuously improve the annual and forecast planning process for the company, Groups, and SBUs.
• Develop and continuously improve Enterprise guidance for business & scenario planning, based on industry and category analysis for trends, threats, and economic indicators. Coordinate with key Enterprise initiatives (e.g., ERM 2.0, Finance); develop ‘proactive’ Enterprise Operations Tean (EOT) business planning discipline and assist Group Operations Directors to execute BU level scenario planning
• Develop and or assist in facilitating Group and intra-Group business planning processes where additional support is required, including Admin and Resource Planning.
• Develop and maintain the common performance metrics for the Enterprise, aligned to other strategic initatives (e.g., EoT Scorecard, IGNITE, etc); guide Group Operations Directors for SBU / Group-level to establish metrics cascade.
• Special projects for VP Operations, COO, and Group Presidents as required.

• Minimum: 8 years experience in consumer goods or professional service providers that serve consumer goods.
• Desirable: The ideal candidate would have experience in positions that require self-driven work product that incorporates and reconciles the perspective of a broad audience of senior and organizational leaders. Examples include, but are not limited to, management consulting, and leadership roles in marketing, sales, finance, product supply.

• Communication: Strong written & verbal communication skills; demonstrated skill in summarizing complex concepts into executive communication materials.
• Practicality & Effectiveness: Ability to modulate workflow and index on the right priorities.
• Mental Acuity: Strong critical thinking, thought leadership, situational adaptability.
• People Leadership: Builds effective relationships, taking care to build a network that represents the right balance of skills, levels, perspectives and roles; must be comfortable working, and in some cases providing direction to, senior leaders.
• Results Leadership: Aligns execution, ensures accountability, drives results.
• Agility: Adaptable, curious, risk-taking, and comfortable working in ambiguity to develop novel solutions to business challenges.

• College/B.S. or equivalent. MBA preferred but not required.