Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Coordinator/Demand Planner

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 Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Coordinator/Demand Planner 

POSITION OVERVIEW 

The Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Coordinator/Demand Planner will be based at Milliken Headquarters in Spartanburg, SC, reporting to the Demand Manager. This role ensures successful implementation and maintenance of the IBP process through disciplined analysis, decision-making, and execution. The position focuses on keeping the process on track, engaging stakeholders, and ensuring adherence to all steps. Additionally, as the Demand Planner, this individual will lead the consensus demand planning process, develop forecast models, challenge assumptions, and communicate requirements to supply and financial teams. They will manage deviations from the business plan, monitor inventory levels, and drive improvement plans while facilitating consensus for a unified forward-looking plan. 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES 

Key responsibilities include: 

• Facilitate demand reviews and ensure timely participation by sales, marketing, and commercial teams. 

• Integrate new product development (NPD) plans into demand and supply planning processes. 

• Lead and facilitate SBU/BU DR/MBR meetings, ensuring decisions are documented and executed. 

• Identify gaps, help to develop and document countermeasures, track actions to completions or change. 

• Track and report key IBP metrics to monitor process effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities. 

• Collect and validate demand forecasts, financial plans, and market data to create a consensus demand plan. 

• Prepare and analyze scenarios for reconciling demand, supply, and financial plans. 

• Manage monthly demand planning processes, including cleansing historical data and running statistical forecasts. 

• Develop and maintain relationships with finance, sales, marketing, and supply planning partners. 

• Drive continuous process improvement and manage demand plans for product phase-in and phase-out. 

• Serve as SAP IBP demand planning module Super User. 

QUALIFICATIONS – REQUIRED 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, or related field (or equivalent experience). 

• Experience in demand or supply planning with broad exposure to business and industry processes. 

• Strong relationship-building, communication, and conflict management skills. 

• Detail-oriented with a process-driven mindset and ability to manage complex data. 

• Technical and analytical skills, including forecasting methodologies, scenario planning, and project management. 

• Proficiency in SAP IBP and related planning tools. 

• Ability to facilitate meetings and present data-driven insights effectively. 

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