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$143,100.00 - $193,100.00Blue Diamond Growers is a grower-owned cooperative made up of approximately 3,000 growers and is one of the world’s leading almond processors and marketers, with $1.7B in annual revenue and products sold across the U.S. and in markets around the world. With a strong manufacturing footprint and deep agricultural roots, BDG is focused on delivering high-quality almond products through operational excellence, innovation, and partnership.
Reporting to the Chief Global Supply Officer, the role owns the end-to-end Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process (Demand, Almond Supply, Supply, Integrated Reconciliation), ensuring the company’s most critical cross-functional planning processes deliver measurable financial and operational results. The role acts as the partner for enterprise alignment - connecting strategy, demand, supply, inventory, and execution. IBP is positioned as the main management system of the business, enabling clear trade-offs, disciplined decision-making, and predictable value delivery.
As a strategic business partner, the Director of IBP connects executive priorities with operational execution, ensuring the company can effectively balance growth, profitability, customer service, and supply chain performance. The role oversees the monthly IBP/S&OP process, develops scenario planning capabilities, and drives continuous improvement through analytics, technology, and process discipline.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS - KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Enterprise Integrated Business Planning Leadership
Governance, Cadence & Decision Quality:
Owns and continuously improves Blue Diamond’s end-to-end IBP framework, ensuring tight integration between:
Lead, coordinate and orchestrate the full IBP governance cadence, including:
Ensure IBP forums are decision-oriented, with clear visibility of:
Embed scenario planning as a core capability to proactively manage volatility related to demand shifts, crop variability, capacity constraints, and margin pressure.
Establish IBP as the single source of truth for enterprise volume, mix, capacity, inventory, and service assumptions.
Governance, Cadence & Decision Quality
Design and maintain enterprise planning and execution governance that ensures:
Improve decision quality by strengthening:
Prepare executive-level materials that are concise, insight-driven, and focused on actions and decisions.
Leadership & Development
Build, lead, influence, and develop teams cross-functionally through:
Foster a culture of enterprise thinking, collaboration, and accountability.
Elevate IBP maturity across the organization by coaching functional leaders,
standardizing ways of working, and reinforcing ownership of commitments.
Serve as a change/transformation leader, shifting mindsets from functional optimization to enterprise value optimization.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Education & Experience
Technical & Business Skills
Leadership & Interpersonal Skills
Five leadership capability clusters will be critical:
Success Metrics
SUPERVISORY REQUIREMENTS
N/A
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Office demands include extensive use of telephone and computer.
WORK ENVIRONMENT
Fast-paced in a dynamic growing environment. Occasional Travel.
Blue Diamond Growers is an Equal Opportunity and E-Verify Employer
EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disability
WHY BLUE DIAMOND?
In addition to working at the world’s largest, state-of-the-art almond manufacturer, we offer a safe and collaborative team environment, with numerous opportunities for free training and career advancement. Check out the BDG Benefits, Health & Wellness Guide HERE
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Blue Diamond Growers is on a global mission to share the benefits of almonds with the world.
Blue Diamond Growers is the world's largest almond processing and marketing company. We are the world’s leading almond brand, and we’re focused on building markets and creating new products to deliver the benefits of almonds to the world. Made up of more than 3,000 growers, we’re cooperatively owned by half of the state's almond growers who produce over 80 percent of the world almond supply.
The California almond crop is marketed to all 50 states and more than 90 foreign countries, making almonds California's largest food export, the sixth largest U.S. food export and the #1 specialty crop in America. We keep that market-leading position by remaining strategically ahead of the curve, with continual innovations in our award-winning processing plants and information technology systems that have grown by leaps and bounds to support global growth.
Our biggest point of differentiation, though, is our people. Through cooperation and teamwork, we, the Almond People as we’re affectionately known, deliver the best-tasting, highest-value almonds and almond products in the world.
This is an exciting time at Blue Diamond where every team member can showcase their talents and contribute in new and innovative ways to drive accomplishments. The opportunity is here for each of us to step up, take our futures in hand and find new ways to achieve at Blue Diamond. We’re building on our strengths, learning as we go, trusting one another and realizing unprecedented levels of success.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by law.
