Global Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Lead (m/f/d)
The primary role of the Global IBP Lead (m/f/d) is to lead the execution and continuous improvement of the IBP process while owning, designing, and consistently improving the process across all units globally. Your main responsibilities include:
Your responsibilities
- Lead all relevant stakeholders through the change journey to achieve best-in-class process maturity.
- Collaborate with the owners of all feeder processes (Product Lifecycle Management, Demand Planning, Master Planning, Sales & Operations (S&OE), Financial Planning, Strategy Execution, etc.) to improve the quality and relevance of all data sets fed into the IBP process.
- Define the agenda and flow of all reviews to position IBP as a strategy deployment process, strongly supported by the relevant feeder processes.
- Maintain close collaboration with all relevant business leaders, leveraging the IBP process to achieve best-in-class cross-functional integration and support the achievement of defined strategic goals.
- Communicate the set of assumptions, numbers, escalations, and key outcomes from each IBP review to the rest of the process and relevant stakeholders.
- Lead the design and continuous improvement of templates for each step of the IBP process and its execution, and translate cross-industry best practices into implementable and meaningful templates for the organization.
- Act as the organization’s thought leader in the domain of IBP, staying abreast of the latest cross-industry best practices, and connecting with relevant external thought leaders.
Your qualifications
- Master’s degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Several years of leadership experience within global, matrixed organizations.
- Proven expertise in leading change initiatives across diverse cultural environments.
- Demonstrated ability to build IBP/S&OP processes in a complex low-maturity environment.
- In-depth experience with IBP, demand planning, process design and implementation, change management, and stakeholder management.
- Significant experience interacting with and influencing senior management.
- Strong communication skills in English, with proficiency in Japanese being a strong advantage.
- Willingness to travel up to 15% of the time.
Location: In any country within the EMEA region where our company is present.
About Olympus Corporate
Olympus is passionate about creating customer-driven solutions for the medical, life sciences, and industrial equipment industries. For more than 100 years, Olympus has focused on making people’s lives healthier, safer and more fulfilling by helping to detect, prevent, and treat disease; furthering scientific research; and ensuring public safety. Olympus is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, with more than 35,000 employees worldwide in nearly 40 countries. Olympus Europa, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, serves the EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) region and employs 7,500 people across 31 subsidiaries.
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