Director, Integrated Business Planning - AFHI (AI)

Location: Chicago, IL; hybrid schedule with at least three in-person workdays per week and up to two virtual workdays

New hire base salary: $190,300–$237,900 per year, plus performance-based bonus and long-term incentive equity

Company

hirify.global is a consumer food company with an Away From Home business unit.

What you will do

• Build and implement the Integrated Commercial Business Planning process and teams from the ground up, including governance, operating routines, and a second-half pilot ahead of the January 2027 go-live.
• Drive cross-functional behavior change, accountability, and the weekly and monthly commercial planning cadence.
• Own one trusted cross-business-unit demand number connecting demand, supply, commercial, investment, financial, and consumption plans.
• Identify, frame, and close risks and opportunities, ensuring recommendations reach the appropriate forums and actions are completed.
• Lead selected strategic projects, including organic and inorganic opportunity assessments.
• Coordinate cross-business-unit milestones, governance meetings, and long-term enablers for the annual three-year planning cycle; manage two salaried direct reports.

Requirements

• Experience in commercial planning, sales strategy, category or business planning, IBP, S&OP, or related commercial roles.
• Experience partnering with Sales, Marketing, and Finance to align cross-functional plans.
• Strong commercial acumen, including the ability to connect demand, investment, financial, and consumption drivers to business outcomes and work with revenue, volume, and margin data.
• Strong organizational and project-planning skills, with the ability to manage multiple complex workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholders concurrently.
• Comfort working with planning tools, dashboards, data analytics, and AI platforms; curiosity about using digital tools and AI to streamline commercial planning.
• Flexibility and comfort with ambiguity in a dynamic, fast-changing environment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including synthesizing multiple data sources into decision-ready insights.
• Excellent communication, storytelling, and stakeholder-management skills, including influencing senior leaders without direct authority.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and AI platforms.

Nice to have

• Experience with formal business planning cycles such as IBP, S&OP, AOP/1YP, or similar.
• Familiarity with planning or ERP systems such as SAP and BI tools such as Power BI.

Culture & Benefits

• Normal office environment with open workspaces and defined core in-person days at the assigned work location.
• Performance-based bonus and long-term incentive equity eligibility.
• Healthcare, prescription drug, dental, vision, life, disability, and accidental death and dismemberment coverage, plus 401(k).
• Paid time off, company holidays, leave of absence, flexible work arrangements, training, recognition, employee assistance, wellbeing, and family support programs.
• Benefits and wellbeing programs may vary by role, country, region, union status, and employment status.