[Hiring] Director, Integrated Business Planning @Vital Farms

Role Description

The Director, Integrated Business Planning (IBP) owns and facilitates Vital Farms’ established IBP process and advances its maturity and business impact. This role integrates commercial, operations, and financial plans across the rolling 36-month horizon to identify gaps and develop enterprise options.

• Lead and advance the IBP process
• Own and facilitate the rolling 36-month Integrated Business Planning process
• Facilitate the monthly cycle across Product/Portfolio Review, Demand Review, Supply Review, Integrated Reconciliation, and Management Business Review
• Advance standards, decision rights, inputs, outputs, KPIs, and meeting effectiveness
• Govern the IBP maturity roadmap, including 2027 priorities
• Partner with NLL and functional owners to define preparation, analysis, recommendations, presentation, and follow-through
• Continuously improve the process based on business performance, participant feedback, and evolving enterprise needs
• Create connectivity across Commercial, Operations, Finance, strategy, and AOP
• Partner with Sales Strategy and Demand Planning to bring a clear, assumption-based demand plan
• Partner with SCP to bring the integrated supply plan into Supply Review
• Partner with Finance to reconcile operational and commercial assumptions to the financial outlook
• Connect the strategic plan, AOP, commercial plan, and operations plan
• Enable decisions through scenarios, optionality, and strong facilitation
• Identify material gaps to strategic and financial targets
• Facilitate functional development of practical base, upside, downside, and gap-closure scenarios
• Distinguish operational planning decisions from enterprise tradeoffs
• Facilitate constructive debate and surface misalignment early
• Enable functional leaders to bring concise, financially grounded narratives to leadership and executive forums
• Build enterprise optionality by clarifying the cost and value of flexibility
• Strengthen governance, accountability, and execution
• Ensure decisions made through IBP translate into coordinated action and measurable outcomes
• Define and uphold decision rights, escalation thresholds, calendars, templates, and quality standards
• Maintain a transparent decision and action log
• Ensure approved decisions flow back into demand, supply, financial, and execution plans
• Define and govern business-performance and planning-health KPIs
• Lead through influence across NLL, senior leaders, and functional teams
• Build sustainable IBP capability
• Develop the organizational understanding and behaviors required for IBP
• Coach NLL, functional review owners, and participants on effective plan ownership
• Clarify the interfaces among IBP, Demand Planning, SCP, Finance, AOP, and S&OE
• Promote a shared-facts culture
• Partner with functional and data teams to evaluate fit-for-purpose tools

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Strategy, or a related field; master’s degree preferred
• 10+ years of progressive experience across Supply Chain, Finance, Strategy, Commercial Planning, Operations, or related CPG functions
• Demonstrated ability to mature an established IBP or S&OP process
• Deep understanding of the distinct roles and interfaces among Demand Planning, Supply Chain Planning, Finance, AOP, S&OE, and IBP
• Experience with planning horizons that bridge near-term execution and longer-range strategic choices
• Strong business and financial acumen
• A facilitator-coach approach with exceptional facilitation and communication skills
• Strong analytical and systems thinking
• Experience with planning technology, scenario modeling, data visualization, and business intelligence
• Adept at influencing without direct authority

Requirements

• This position is remote within the United States, with an estimated travel requirement of 10–20% based on business needs

Benefits

• A fast-paced, energetic, remote environment with passionate people
• Competitive pay and benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, and Paid Parental Leave)
• Generous retirement contributions: 401(k) + 3% Contribution from Day 1
• Free eggs, along with friends and family discounts
• Fun team SWAG
• Professional development opportunities