Director, Enterprise Planning – Performance

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of and oversee the ongoing 36-month Integrated Business Planning process.

• Uphold IBP standards, governance, decision rights, inputs, outputs, KPIs, schedules, templates, and quality benchmarks.

• Coordinate monthly cycles for Product/Portfolio Review, Demand Review, Supply Review, Integrated Reconciliation, and Management Business Review.

• Collaborate with senior leaders and functional owners to generate decision-ready inputs, decisions, ownership, and follow-up actions.

• Consolidate Commercial, Operations, Finance, strategy, AOP, demand, and supply plans into a unified enterprise perspective.

• Identify gaps, risks, opportunities, trade-offs, and necessary enterprise decisions.

• Facilitate the creation of base, upside, downside, and gap-closure scenarios concerning growth, service, capacity, supply, cost, margin, inventory, cash, and risk.

• Enhance enterprise optionality by clarifying the costs and benefits of flexibility and establishing adaptation triggers.

• Maintain logs of decisions and actions, ensuring that approved decisions are integrated into functional and execution plans.

• Define and oversee planning health and business performance KPIs; track plan performance, bias, adherence, realized risks, and decision effectiveness.

• Lead by influencing senior leaders and cross-functional teams.

• Mentor leaders and participants on plan ownership, assumptions, scenarios, risk/opportunity assessment, and decision readiness.

• Assess planning tools, advanced analytics, and AI use cases in collaboration with functional and data teams.

• Report to the Sr. Director of Operations Development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Strategy, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience; a master’s degree is preferred.

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in Supply Chain, Finance, Strategy, Commercial Planning, Operations, or related CPG functions.

• Significant leadership experience in IBP, S&OP, enterprise planning, or similar cross-functional processes.

• Proven ability to enhance an established IBP or S&OP process in a CPG, food, manufacturing, or similarly complex operating environment.

• Experience in governance, facilitation, scenario planning, and leadership of change initiatives.

• In-depth understanding of Demand Planning, Supply Chain Planning, Finance, AOP, S&OE, and IBP roles and their interactions.

• Familiarity with planning horizons that connect near-term execution with long-term strategic decisions, ideally spanning 18–36 months.

• Strong business and financial insight.

• Outstanding facilitation and communication skills across various functions and leadership levels.

• Strong analytical skills and systems thinking ability.

• Experience with planning technology, scenario modeling, data visualization, and business intelligence tools.

• Experience collaborating on AI-enabled planning is advantageous.

• Capacity to influence without direct authority and foster accountability among senior, cross-functional stakeholders.

• Remote work location within the United States; estimated travel requirement of 10–20%.

• Alignment with Vital Farms values and a culture that emphasizes collaboration and ownership.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision coverage.

• Paid Parental Leave.

• 401(k) with a 3% contribution from Day 1.

• Complimentary eggs.

• Discounts for friends and family.

• Fun team SWAG.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Remote work environment.

• A passionate team committed to growth.