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Integrated Business Planning Manager

Kraken Robotics Inc

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Responsibilities

  • Working in close partnership with the Vice President FP&A and Finance team, the IBP Manager ensures that operational plans are translated into integrated financial plans, enabling informed decision-making, proactive risk management, and achievement of business objectives.
  • AND RESPONSBILITIES Integrated Business Planning Ownership Design, implement, and continuously improve the organization's Integrated Business Planning framework.
  • Establish and maintain a common planning methodology, planning calendar, governance structure, and operating model.
  • Ensure alignment between strategic objectives, operational plans, resource requirements, and financial outcomes.
  • Drive consistent planning practices across all regions, functions, and business units.
  • Act as the custodian of the IBP process, ensuring adherence and continuous maturity development.
  • Resource & Capacity Planning Working alongside our People & Culture and business management teams: Lead the development and management of enterprise-wide resource and capacity planning processes.
  • Create a consolidated view of organisational capacity, utilisation, capability requirements, and future demand.
  • Identify capacity constraints, capability gaps, and resource risks affecting business performance.
  • Facilitate proactive decisions regarding hiring, deployment, outsourcing, investment, and prioritisation.
  • Work with functional leaders to balance demand against available capacity and strategic priorities.
  • Develop rolling capacity forecasts and resource plans to support short, medium, and long-term business objectives.
  • Demand Planning & Portfolio Alignment Consolidate demand signals from business units, customers, functions, and strategic initiatives.
  • Ensure demand forecasts are evaluated against available capacity and operational constraints.
  • Support prioritization decisions through scenario planning and trade-off analysis.
  • Create visibility of demand pipelines and future workload requirements.
  • Facilitate alignment between growth ambitions, transformation initiatives, and delivery capability.
  • Financial Integration Partner closely with the Vice President FP&A to translate operational plans into integrated financial plans and forecasts.
  • Ensure resource plans, demand forecasts, and capacity assumptions are reflected accurately within budgeting and forecasting processes.
  • Provide operational assumptions and planning intelligence to support financial modelling.
  • Support the development of integrated forecasts, annual operating plans, and strategic planning cycles.
  • Ensure consistency between operational planning outputs and financial commitments.
  • Scenario Planning & Decision Support Develop planning models and analytical tools to evaluate alternative business scenarios.
  • Support executive decision-making through capacity assessments, investment evaluations, and resource optimization analysis.
  • Quantify operational risks, opportunities, and potential impacts to strategic objectives.
  • Facilitate scenario planning exercises with senior leadership teams.
  • Continuous Improvement Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, tools, analytics, and governance.
  • Promote best practice planning methodologies and organizational planning maturity.
  • Drive adoption of integrated planning technologies and data-driven capabilities.
  • Champion a culture of proactive planning and enterprise-wide decision making.

Requirements

  • AND EXPERIENCE Significant experience in Integrated Business Planning, Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP), workforce planning, business planning, or operational planning.
  • Demonstrated experience developing and implementing planning frameworks within a multinational organization.
  • Strong understanding of resource planning, capacity management, demand forecasting, and operational performance management.
  • Proven ability to align operational plans with financial planning processes.
  • Experience facilitating senior-level planning and governance forums.
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.
  • Strong commercial awareness and business acumen.

Preferred

  • SKILLS Experience within technology, manufacturing, engineering, or other complex global operating environments.
  • Knowledge of enterprise planning platforms and technologies.
  • Experience with scenario modelling and predictive analytics tools.
  • Project Management, Lean, Six Sigma, APICS, IBF, or equivalent professional qualifications.
  • Experience in organizational transformation and change management.
  • NEW CAREER OPPORTUNITY Build your career with Kraken Robotics. Make a difference to others. If innovation drives you, and you want a career that makes a difference to the world, helping humanity overcome the challenges in our oceans – safely, efficiently, and sustainably – then come join us at Kraken Robotics.

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience working in highly matrixed environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
  • Strong analytical and modelling capabilities.