Job Description:
Job Purpose/Overview
The IBP Manager plays a critical role in driving the Integrated Business Planning process by connecting commercial plans, supply chain assumptions, and operational realities with financial commitments.
Lead the IBP 5 Step Cluster process (Steps 1-5) and drive alignment between all relevant functions.
Own the orchestration of all elements within IBP (Short term execution plan S&OE, IBP steps, and Annual Operating Plan) to ensure seamless translation of strategy into execution.
Job Responsibilities
Drive the Integrated Business Planning Process
Lead the monthly IBP cycle across portfolio management, forecasting, supply-demand alignment, financial reconciliation, and management reviews.
Coordinate cross-functional discussions to identify business risks, opportunities, and key assumptions.
Ensure timely governance and adherence to IBP processes and milestones.
Financial Forecasting & Business Performance
Consolidate and challenge commercial, operational, and financial assumptions to develop robust forecasts.
Drive rolling forecasts and scenario planning activities.
Analyze variances versus Budget, Forecast, Prior Year, and Strategic Plans.
Identify performance trends and articulate business implications to stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Business Partnering
Partner with Commercial, Marketing, Revenue Growth Management, Supply, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Finance teams.
Drive accountability for forecast assumptions and action plans across functions.
Performance Insights & Analytics
Build & maintain executive level scorecards
Monitor and analyze key business indicators including:
Revenue and Volume Performance
Forecast Accuracy
Inventory Health
Customer Service Levels
Activity Evaluation/Management
Context and Scope
Explain how the job gets done and the way it operates within the team and with stakeholders
The role partners closely with Finance, Sales, Marketing, Supply , Manufacturing, Procurement, and Leadership teams to deliver a robust rolling forecast, identify risks and opportunities, and support informed decision-making.
The incumbent will lead cross-functional alignment of volume, revenue, inventory, and productivity assumptions while ensuring that business plans remain financially realistic and operationally executable.
Job Specifications/Qualifications
Education & Professional Qualifications
• MBA (Operations/Finance)
Knowledge / Experience
• 8–12 years of experience in Business (Demand, Supply) Planning, Integrated Business Planning, Financial Planning or similar experience
• Meaningful experience influencing senior leaders and shaping/ deploying strategy.
• Experience within FMCG, Consumer Goods, Food Manufacturing, or similar industries preferred.
• Exposure to cross-functional planning processes and business partnering roles.
Skills Required
- MBA in Operations or Finance
- 8-12 years of experience in business planning, demand planning, supply planning, Integrated Business Planning, financial planning, or similar
- Experience influencing senior leaders and shaping or deploying strategy
- Exposure to cross-functional planning processes and business partnering roles
- Experience in FMCG, consumer goods, food manufacturing, or similar industries
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
