Manager, Account Planning & Strategic Analysis

Job Description

Overview and Responsibilities

We are looking for a Manager, of Account Planning & Strategic Analysis, who will be supporting the growth and day to day management of one of the largest physical home entertainment business partners! We will rely on your quantitative & analytical skills to develop retailer quarterly gross revenue/consumer spend forecasts, inform product assortment decisions and help develop pricing strategies to manage product life cycle management while contributing to top line revenue and share growth at multiple physical retail accounts. You will be working cross functionally with Sales, Marketing, Finance and Operations!

Responsibilities Include, But Not Limited To:
• Partner with Planning Lead, Sales, Brand Marketing & Operations to help develop annual revenue plans for physical retail accounts
• Regularly evaluate promotional performance and Return On Investment - taking into consideration factors including promotion size, duration, price/discount level, assortment, competitive forces, and merchandising
• Develop weekly/monthly account specific sales reporting to track performance against retailer KPI's and profitability metrics
• Demonstrate retailer specific knowledge to develop future looking 'what if' scenarios and help assess impact of those scenarios to the overall business
• Analyze monthly performance drivers to identify areas of risk or opportunity, and recommend plans to mitigate or accelerate those
• Use internal & external industry data to support decision making for key partners
• Craft and develop new reporting and dashboards to support forecasting, planning, and performance measurement with an eye towards improved data visualization and automation
• Other tasks as needed on an ad hoc basis

Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree required, a focus in Finance, Economics, Statistics, or related quantitative field preferred
• 4+ years of sales planning, strategic analysis, and/or financial planning experience
• Experience in Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau, RetailLink, Data Warehouse, & working with large data sets

Additional Qualifications
• Experience with retailer systems data visualization tools (i.e. Tableau, Looker, DOMO, etc)
• Prior experience long range business planning (LRP) along analyzing customer profitability and promotional efficiency desired
• Passion for working with business partners to find opportunities, innovate, and deliver results
• Excellent communications skills with all levels of an organization and across geographies
• Comfortable with ambiguity, a fast pace and changing priorities
• Enthusiasm and aptitude for working in a fast-paced, collaborative corporate environment but with a start up mentality: highly self-directed, results-oriented and able to work at both strategic and tactical levels

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-r015xj-18-221-85-33-42 in your application.