Business Planning Manager

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DRiV is the aftermarket business group of Tenneco - DRiV website

About DRiV

DRiV, Tenneco’s aftermarket business group, is a global leader with a portfolio of trusted automotive brands and strong positions across major product categories. Through its regional commercial businesses and global manufacturing, engineering, purchasing, and distribution capabilities, DRiV delivers quality, performance, and value to customers worldwide. At DRiV, we win through disciplined execution, innovation, customer focus, and the power of our brands.

Position Summary

The Business Planning Manager leads DRiV’s integrated business planning processes and provides the analysis, structure, and coordination needed to translate strategic priorities into executable operating plans. This role partners closely with Commercial, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Distribution, Product Management, Purchasing, and other functions to develop forecasts, evaluate business performance, identify risks and opportunities, and support timely decision-making. The successful candidate will drive planning discipline, align cross-functional assumptions, prepare executive-level insights, and help ensure that DRiV delivers its growth, profitability, working capital, and operational commitments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead DRiV’s annual operating plan, long-range plan, periodic forecast, and business review processes, establishing clear timelines, deliverables, assumptions, and accountabilities.
• Translate DRiV’s strategic priorities into coordinated commercial, operational, financial, and functional plans with measurable objectives and milestones.
• Partner with Commercial, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Distribution, Product Management, and Purchasing leaders to align demand, revenue, margin, inventory, capacity, productivity, and investment assumptions.
• Develop and maintain integrated planning models, scenarios, and sensitivity analyses to evaluate growth opportunities, market changes, operational constraints, and financial tradeoffs.
• Coordinate monthly and quarterly business performance reviews, consolidating results, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and corrective actions for senior leadership.
• Analyze performance against plan, identify root causes of variances, and partner with accountable leaders to define recovery actions and improve forecast accuracy.
• Monitor key business drivers, including sales, pricing, mix, margin, customer demand, inventory, service, productivity, working capital, and capital investment.
• Provide fact-based recommendations on resource allocation, commercial priorities, cost actions, inventory strategies, and other decisions affecting business performance.
• Establish consistent planning templates, definitions, governance, and reporting routines across regions and functions to improve transparency and decision quality.
• Prepare concise executive presentations and decision materials that communicate assumptions, performance trends, business implications, recommendations, and required actions.
• Facilitate cross-functional planning meetings, resolve gaps between functional plans, and ensure decisions and action items are documented and completed.
• Support strategic initiatives, business cases, portfolio reviews, customer or market assessments, and transformation programs through structured analysis and planning.
• Continuously improve planning tools, processes, data quality, and management routines to increase speed, accuracy, accountability, and business impact.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations, or a related field required; MBA or other advanced degree preferred.
• 6 or more years of progressive experience in business planning, financial planning and analysis, strategy, commercial planning, operations planning, supply chain planning, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience leading annual operating plans, forecasts, long-range plans, business reviews, or integrated business planning processes.
• Strong financial and commercial acumen, including experience analyzing revenue, pricing, mix, margin, cost, inventory, working capital, and investment decisions.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with planning, ERP, business intelligence, or financial reporting platforms preferred.
• Proven ability to build planning models, evaluate scenarios, identify performance drivers, and translate analysis into practical recommendations.
• Experience consolidating inputs from multiple functions, regions, or business units and establishing consistent assumptions, standards, and governance.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage recurring planning cycles, ad hoc priorities, and executive deliverables under tight timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Automotive aftermarket, manufacturing, distribution, consumer products, industrial, or multi-site business experience preferred.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally based on business needs.

Leadership Capabilities

• Enterprise mindset with the ability to connect strategy, market dynamics, financial outcomes, and operational execution.
• Strong planning and analytical judgment, with the ability to challenge assumptions, evaluate tradeoffs, and focus leaders on the most important business drivers.
• Clear, concise executive communication and presentation skills, with the ability to synthesize complex information into actionable recommendations.
• Collaborative leader who builds alignment, facilitates productive decisions, influences without direct authority, and drives accountability across functions.
• Strong business curiosity and learning agility, with the ability to quickly understand markets, customers, products, channels, operations, and financial drivers.
• Highly organized and resilient, with the ability to manage multiple planning cycles, shifting priorities, and tight deadlines in a dynamic environment.
• Commitment to disciplined execution, continuous improvement, and transparent performance management across the organization.