Business Planning Lead
$136,300–$187,400 year
HybridCamden, New Jersey, United States
Job Summary
Lead the Integrated Business Planning Demand Review step to support Annual Operating Planning and Strategic Plans for your business category. Own the integration of commercial investments—including marketing spend, trade, pricing, and innovation—into rolling 24+-month volume and financial projections. Surface risks and opportunities, enabling fact-based tradeoff discussions across demand, supply, and finance to maximize ROI. Serve as the single point of demand integration with Sales, Marketing, and Finance, collaborating with Data Science to tune forecast models and drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy. Translate commercial strategy into actionable demand plans that support service, inventory, and revenue objectives. Work a hybrid schedule at our Camden, NJ HQ office.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of relevant experience in Commercial Planning, Marketing, Sales, Finance, and/or Strategy within CPG or adjacent industries
- Multiple functional experiences
- Demonstrated experience operating in IBP / S&OP process disciplines
- Bachelors
Desired Qualifications
- MBA
- Strategic & Business Acumen
- Deep understanding and curiosity of the P&L and how investments create demand across marketing, sales, pricing, and innovation
- Ability to translate business strategy into quantified demand implications
- Strong ability to connect disparate information, including understanding of marketplace factors (including external forces like competition and category performance) and leverage that to recommend controllable actions to drive Campbell outcomes
- Analytical and Problem-Solving Capabilities
- Strong ability to synthesize data, analytics, and judgment into decision ready insights
- Comfort interpreting advanced analytics and model outputs without losing business context
- Leadership & Influence
- Communicate strategically through storytelling to engage stakeholders and convey complex ideas with clarity and impact
- Proven ability to lead through influence, not authority
- Clear, compelling communicator of complex tradeoffs
- Escalate and prioritize material risks and opportunities with clear recommendations
- Exhibit a mindset of continuous process improvement by actively seeking opportunities to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
- Ability to travel as needed (10-15%) to company meetings, company & customer meetings
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