**Job Description :** **Name of the role:** IBP Lead - Colombia **Location:** Bogotá, Colombia **Type of contract:** Permanent **About the Role:** The IBP Lead role is a key market role and the face of Planning and Logistics within the respective market. The IBP Lead maintains a management and leadership role to ensure the Integrated Business Planning is managed and delivered in line with the Diageo requirements The role interacts with senior leaders within the market and supports the leadership team by ensuring timely decision-making in response to changing business plans. Within the market, the role of the IBP lead is to ensure sufficiency in the top and bottom lines where gaps between the latest estimates are clear. This will come through in a holistic understanding of the E2E business process and early identification of risks and opportunities that will enable Diageo to **come up with the right gap-closing options, decision-making, and action plans,** in addition to driving value through effective partnerships with commercial, marketing and the GM to ensure robust execution of the business plan and joint value creation through the IBP process. In addition, they are also accountable for coordinating and facilitating the monthly IBP process with Marketing, Commercial, Finance, Supply Planning, and Logistics, to deliver the service, inventory, forecast accuracy/bias volume plan, NSV, innovation, and cost savings. + They will lead all the IBP Cycle and Weekly S&OE meetings. + They will ensure the IBP process continues delivering to the Progressive standard. Influences the executive agenda through effective reconciliation. + They will ensure the continuous change management and elimination of parallel processes that hinder the effectiveness of the IBP Meetings and Decisions. **Dimensions** : Colombia and Cuba countries **Interfaces:** This role operates within a very complex and evolving network with the following dimensions: + Monthly cross functional collaboration with interdisciplinary departments and country Exec including Marketing Director, Finance Director, Commercial Director, Supply Chain Director and Managing Director. + All SC&P interfaces (function, category) + Global IBP Process Owners + Digital tools such as APO/OMP, Anaplan **Top Accountabilities:** + Accountable for ensuring the IBP process continues to deliver to the Progressive standard through the PMR, DMR, SR and MBR. + Influences the executive agenda through effective reconciliation. + Facilitates IR Review with Finance, including driving the agenda, focus and level of escalation. + Manages the monthly reconciliation cycle and is tasking the development and alignment of key decisions and gap-closing scenarios. + Coordinates the delivery of the overall business plan to deliver its objectives by combining the IBP plan with business activity and key drivers. Influences decision focus and executive alignment. + Supports business performance management through exception-based root cause and escalation. + Delivers key IBP performance metrics to the standard required. + Full integration with finance to deliver a single business plan, with clearly identified gaps and actions. + Works with Demand and Finance to facilitate decisions and actions in response to changes in business assumptions and plans. + Ensures the effective coordination if the monthly S&OE cycle and related meetings, including process implementation and management coordination. + Is seen by the business as an extension of the executive team with clear influence and access. + Can prioritise the management agenda, in a way that ensures trust in escalation and focus. Can present clearly defined decisions, including scenarios. + Has the ability to work within the dynamics of a leadership team. + Supports the category process with proactive integration as needed. + Drives process and tool enhancement, and advanced design foundations. Uses business tools and processes, with resistance to informal workarounds. + Drives continuous improvement using established process methodologies, including formal assessments, the Diageo Playbook, and formal meeting reviews, as well as their role as a business leader and influencer. + Prepare value-adding visual information and recommendations to support business planning and decision making. This includes conforming to Diageo standards for reporting and presentation, and the ability to clearly show an audience what is important when presenting information. Includes the ability to add clear and meaningful narration to visual presentations and the use of appropriate visual techniques (such as graphs and images) to maintain interest and focus. + Develop and design (or support the development and design) of information management processes (such as Business Intelligence reporting or dashboards) to ensure they deliver business value and focus. + Influence business executives to make changes to their plans by providing insight and support as needed based on information developed through the IBP process. + Articulates insights and outcomes in a way that can lead to an agreed executive decision / outcome. + Support business executives in delivering their business objectives through the preparation of plans and scenarios as needed, the reporting of key information and exceptions, and the completion of analysis and review of past performance and future. + Takes ownership and accountability for the business planning / budgeting cycle on behalf of the Market executive team and coordinates the activity to deliver a formal business plan / budget. + manage the delivery of strategic plans to support business objectives in response to changing market and business requirements where accountable. This includes delivering to agreed plans and managing change and risk. + Understand the key components of financial reports, including related metrics in a way that allows the appropriate review of financial numbers to identify areas of concern that might require review and explanation, and to bridge key gaps between planned and current performance. + Prepares and presents decision recommendations into appropriate IBP reviews, clearly articulating options, and impact in terms of volume, value, and resource requirements, and have developed a trusted position within the team to ensure appropriate support. **Experience required/Skills/Capabilities** **Previous Successful Experience:** + Having directly worked with senior business leadership. + Has practical experience in Demand Analytics, to analyze demand performance and trends, marketing, and sales activity impact (including pricing), and reach conclusions on what that might mean about current and future demand plans. + Has practical experience of IBP in a similar role and/or business, which can be used to support the current role and challenge? + Can manage an appropriate change management process to ensure market adoption of IBP, using Diageo principles, processes, and resources, as well as their skills, capabilities, and position. + Minimum 5 years experience working in IBP/S&OP + First-hand planning experience in IBP, S&OP, S&OE, and Demand Planning. + Has developed and successfully implemented strategies and S&OP programs. **Skills/Capabilities:** + Growth Mindset + Passion for data and a performance culture. + Very strong analytical skills. + Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to foster and maintain strong working relationships and influence at all levels of the organization. At ease working effectively with a diverse group of stakeholders and business cultures. + Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written combined with the ability to engage effectively at all levels in the organization. + Digital dexterity. Previous experience (and hunger to learn) on advanced planning tools, digital control towers, BI, etc. + Critical Thinking and robust problem-solving ability. + The most vocal voice of truth. + Collaborate efficiently. + Stands for digitization and does not tolerate drift. + Robust business acumen. + Evidence of strong bias performance. + Evidence of reconciliation. + Superbly understand the Route to Market and consumer insights of the market s/he will operate in. **Desirable:** + Experience in S&OP/ Demand Planning working in a multinational CPG / FMCG + BSc in engineering, supply chain, data science/statistics/applied mathematics, and economics. Additional MBA or MSc in Supply Chain Management or similar would be desirable. **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Bogota - IMC **Additional Locations :** **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-02-07 With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world. Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. 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