Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Consultant

Overview

Location: Hybrid (Greater Milwaukee WI area)Employment Type: Seasonal

 

Are you a seasoned Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Consultant who thrives on transforming complex business processes into clear, scalable, and actionable solutions? Trissential is seeking a Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Consultant to join our client’s team and play a critical role in documenting, optimizing, and preparing key supply chain planning processes for future-state success. This is an opportunity to work directly with business leaders, planners, and stakeholders to drive meaningful operational improvements while leveraging modern tools, including AI-enabled documentation practices.

 

What’s in It for You?

• High-Impact Work – Help shape the future of business planning processes that directly influence operational success and decision-making.
• Strategic Visibility – Collaborate with senior leaders, planners, analysts, and subject matter experts across the organization.
• Process Transformation – Lead discovery efforts that create clarity, consistency, and governance across critical planning workflows.
• Modern Technology Exposure – Utilize AI tools and process-mapping methodologies to improve documentation quality, efficiency, and knowledge management.
• Flexible Hybrid Environment – Participate in meaningful in-person collaboration while maintaining work-life balance.
• Autonomy & Ownership – Work independently, influence outcomes, and drive deliverables from inception to completion.

Your Role & Responsibilities

• Review existing process documentation and identify gaps, overlaps, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with planners, analysts, business leaders, and key stakeholders.
• Capture and translate institutional knowledge into clear, structured, and actionable documentation.
• Analyze and challenge unclear workflows, ownership structures, decision points, approvals, and handoff processes.
• Develop detailed current-state and future-state process maps documenting activities, responsibilities, inputs, outputs, and decisions.
• Create meeting charters that establish governance, participation expectations, required inputs, intended decisions, and expected outcomes.
• Define workflow ownership, approval structures, escalation paths, and responsibility matrices.
• Conduct change impact assessments and evaluate how future-state processes affect teams, roles, behaviors, and operating models.
• Leverage AI tools to accelerate documentation creation, validate completeness, improve consistency, and support knowledge repository development.
• Track decisions, assumptions, risks, action items, and outstanding questions in partnership with project leadership.
• Organize, validate, and maintain centralized process documentation that supports training, governance, implementation, and ongoing business operations.

Skills & Experience You Should Possess

• 15+ years of experience in Business Analysis, Process Consulting, Process Improvement, Process Design, or a related discipline.
• Advanced process-mapping expertise with a demonstrated ability to document complex business workflows.
• Strong workshop facilitation skills with experience driving stakeholder engagement and consensus.
• Experience documenting current-state and future-state business processes.
• Proven ability to work with cross-functional business teams, executives, and subject matter experts.
• Experience conducting change impact assessments and supporting organizational readiness initiatives.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills with attention to process governance and operational effectiveness.
• Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous stakeholder input into structured business documentation.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools to create, validate, organize, and improve business deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently in environments with evolving priorities and incomplete information.

Bonus Points If You Have

• Demand Planning experience.
• Supply Planning experience.
• Supply Chain Management experience.
• Integrated Business Planning (IBP) experience.
• SAP planning systems experience.
• Experience creating enterprise knowledge repositories and governance frameworks.
• Exposure to large-scale business transformation initiatives.
• Experience supporting planning process modernization programs.

Education & Certifications You Need

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Information Systems, Operations Management, or a related field.
• Relevant Business Analysis, Process Improvement, Organizational Change Management, or Project Management certifications are preferred.
• Lean, Six Sigma, CBAP, CCBA, PMP, or related certifications are a plus.

What We Offer

At Trissential, we value expertise, innovation, and collaboration. By joining our client’s team, you'll have the opportunity to contribute to a strategic transformation initiative while working alongside experienced professionals who value knowledge-sharing and continuous improvement.

• Competitive Compensation – $85–$95 per hour. Final compensation is determined based on skill alignment, years of experience, and fair, market-based rates by geography.

This opportunity is open only to candidates who are currently authorized to work in the United States.

Ready to be part of something exciting?

If you're passionate about process transformation, stakeholder engagement, business readiness, and creating clarity in complex organizations, we want to hear from you. Apply today and take the next step in your career as a Integrated Business Planning (IBP) Consultant with Trissential.