Manager, Business Insights
$125,000–$135,000 year
HybridNew York City, New York, United States or New York, United States
Job Summary
Support annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range planning across publishing divisions and sales channels. Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting packages with variance analysis, trend commentary, and actionable business insights. Build and maintain financial models to evaluate title performance, account profitability, promotional investments, and new business opportunities. Monitor point-of-sale trends, returns, co-op and promotional spend, and other commercial drivers to identify risks and opportunities. Analyze promotion performance, pricing, placement, and retail marketing initiatives to assess financial impact. Partner with Sales, Publishing, Marketing, Operations, IT, and Finance on strategic initiatives and business reviews. Streamline reporting, improve data quality, and automate recurring financial and analytical processes. Provide ad hoc analysis to support acquisition planning, inventory decisions, and other high-priority projects. This role requires a hybrid schedule with three days in-office in New York, NY, and a base salary of $125,000-$135,000.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field
- 4–7 years of experience in business analytics, financial planning and analysis, sales analytics, or a related finance role
- Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup formulas, and financial modeling
- Strong ability to interpret large datasets and communicate clear, actionable insights to financial and non-financial stakeholders
- Excellent analytical, organizational, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment
- Collaborative, business-partner mindset with comfort presenting findings to senior leadership
- This position is in New York, NY and follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring in-office presence three days per week
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in book publishing, media, consumer products, or another title- and retail-driven industry
- Familiarity with point-of-sale reporting, title-level profitability, inventory, returns, syndicated market data, and consumer analytics tools
- Experience with Power BI or similar reporting and visualization tools
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