Associate Business Planning Manager

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Your role at Clorox:

Clorox is on a transformation journey to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of its integrated business planning (IBP) processes with the objective of enhancing Clorox’s ability to provide a complete, unbiased, and objective understanding of how integrated planning actions impact BU financial health and the business as a whole.
As part of this transformation journey, Clorox continues validating its new, IBP capabilities, processes, systems and operating structures to bring this new capability to life. We are looking for a dynamic leader who can help drive the enhancement of Clorox’s IBP capabilities and help build Clorox’s IBP capability for the future. This role will serve as a core part of the IBP team within the BU and be a critical for on-going success.

In this role, you will:

• Forecast ownership: Leverages Iris and develop demand forecast for the BU, incorporating in GM and functional feedback and adjusts as needed to arrive at an integrated and accurate plan
• Driver attribution and business analysis: Assesses and pressure tests key forecast drivers, seeking a deep understanding demand forecast driver attribution and their influence the forecast, risks, and opportunities.
• DP narrative design: Constructs BU Latest Estimated Demand Plan (LEDP) narrative with support from IBP lead, proactively identifying key forecast tensions, tradeoffs, and decisions needed for discussion in LEDP & Scenario Meeting and GM Signoff Meeting
• Demand scenario analysis: Drives scenario analysis, leveraging Iris Scenario Mgr. tool, identifying impact of changing demand drivers (e.g. pricing, promotion, marketing, and distribution) based on business acumen
• Risks & opportunities: Analyzes demand forecast impact of different risk / opportunity scenarios
• Scenario framing & response: Supports framing and strategy development against most likely impactful scenarios, in alignment with IBP Lead / Manager and BU LT
• Proactive communication:  Conducts proactive cross-functional outreach to understand forecast and key drivers, extract business insights, understand risks & opportunities, correctly incorporate adjustments to lock DP scenario, and explain the output of the model to the business
• Input coordination: Reviews and validates inputs and, if needed, holds input owners accountable for delivery, collecting updates via standardized tools, templates, and processes
• Tool feedback: Provides feedback to the IBP hub on Iris tool functionality
• Community of practice: Actively foster and contribute to a community of like practitioners
• Data quality: Flags data quality and holds input owners and data stewards accountable for inputs that materially impact forecast quality
• Model deployment: Runs Iris model, sense checks results and predictions, and creates LER LE DP decomposition report to share with customer team and finance
• Tool / data collaboration: Works closely with IBP hub and functions to ensure tool robustness and data availability and granularity at necessary level to feed the demand forecast
• Actuals analysis: Analyzes actuals via Rearview Mirror, routinely monitoring forecast accuracy & bias

What we look for:

• BA or equivalent in Engineering, Supply Chain, Data Science, or Predictive Analytics, Masters preferred
• 5+ yrs industry experience, CPG / fast moving consumer preferred
• Recent S&OP / demand planning experience
• Deep experience in statistical modeling / predictive analytics
• Experience interfacing and influencing across multiple functions
• Preference: Experience in a customer-facing role

Workplace type:

Hybrid - 3 days in the office, 2 days WFH

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[U.S.]Additional Information:

At Clorox, we champion people to be well and thrive, starting with our own people. To help make this possible, we offer comprehensive, competitive benefits that prioritize all aspects of wellbeing and provide flexibility for our teammates’ unique needs. This includes robust health plans, a market-leading 401(k) program with a company match, flexible time off benefits (including half-day summer Fridays depending on location), inclusive fertility/adoption benefits, and more.

We are committed to fair and equitable pay and are transparent with current and future teammates about our full salary ranges. We use broad salary ranges that reflect the competitive market for similar jobs, provide sufficient opportunity for growth as you gain experience and expand responsibilities, while also allowing for differentiation based on performance. Based on the breadth of our ranges, most new hires will start at Clorox in the first half of the applicable range. Your starting pay will depend on job-related factors, including relevant skills, knowledge, experience and location. The applicable salary range for every role in the U.S. is based on your work location and is aligned to one of three zones according to the cost of labor in your area.

–Zone A: $106,700 - $204,900

–Zone B: $97,800 - $187,900

–Zone C: $88,900 - $170,800

All ranges are subject to change in the future. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your location during the hiring process.

This job is also eligible for participation in Clorox’s incentive plans, subject to the terms of the applicable plan documents and policies.

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