IBP & Strategy Leader

IBP and Strategy Leader
Location: Gauteng, South Africa
Industry: FMCG (multinational)

About the role

This role goes beyond traditional IBP ownership. It combines end-to-end integrated planning, strategy execution, business performance management and transformation governance, with significant exposure to senior leadership.

The IBP framework is already established. The challenge is embedding it, building organisational discipline and making sure it delivers real business value. You will be the custodian of the process, connecting strategic priorities with commercial realities and operational execution, and helping the business move from reactive firefighting to predictable, integrated performance.

You will connect demand, supply and financial plans, challenge cross-functional assumptions, improve decision-making and translate business priorities into measurable results.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the implementation and embedding of an end-to-end IBP framework across the business
• Drive process discipline, governance and continuous improvement across the five IBP processes
• Connect strategic planning with commercial, financial and operational decision-making
• Influence senior stakeholders and challenge established ways of working to improve cross-functional collaboration
• Lead behavioural change and build accountability across functions, often through influence rather than direct authority
• Identify opportunities to improve systems, processes, planning tools and the use of data
• Help shift the business from reactive firefighting towards more predictable, integrated performance
• Build a culture of continuous improvement, resilience and forward-looking decision-making

Requirements

• Proven FMCG experience, ideally in a complex, retail-facing environment
• Demonstrable experience implementing IBP or leading a substantial planning transformation
• Strong understanding of the full IBP framework and its five core processes, beyond traditional S&OP
• Strategic mindset, with an understanding of business strategy, commercial planning and end-to-end value chain integration
• Exceptional stakeholder management and the confidence to challenge and influence senior leaders
• Track record of driving change, shifting behaviours and embedding sustainable processes
• Experience improving planning processes, systems and operational effectiveness
• Resilience, adaptability, energy and the courage to lead through ambiguity

Candidates must be able to give examples of implementing and improving an end-to-end IBP process, and of working beyond the planning cycle to connect strategy, financial performance, cross-functional decisions and transformation delivery.

Should you meet the required skills please respond to this advert