The Manager, Business Insights will support strategic decision-making across sales, publishing, and operations. This role serves as a key analytics partner to the Sales Team and intersects with leaders across the business, delivering financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis that improve visibility into performance and help guide investment decisions.
The ideal candidate combines strong financial planning and modeling skills with an interest in consumer behavior, market trends, and the publishing business. They will analyze title-, category-, and account-level performance; support budgeting and forecast cycles; administer the annual Sales incentive program; evaluate promotions and profitability; and translate large volumes of sales and market data into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
What you'd be doing:Financial Planning & Reporting- 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.
- Partner with Finance during month-end close to provide title- and account-level performance insights for leadership.
Publishing, Sales & Market Analytics- 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.
- Develop insights across titles, authors, accounts, categories, and market segments to support sales and publishing decisions.
- Combine internal sales data with consumer and syndicated market data to identify shifts in demand, format trends, and category performance.
- Translate complex datasets into concise findings, recommendations, reports, and dashboards for senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Process Improvement- 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.
We're looking for someone who has:- 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.
Highly preferred candidates also have:- 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
This position is in New York, NY and follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring in-office presence three days per week.
The base salary range for this position is ($125,000 - $135,000) per year. The final offer will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.What We Offer: - Generous paid holidays and Summer Fridays.
- Company-paid year-end office closure between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day each year
- Comprehensive health benefits, including short-term and long-term disability.
- Retirement savings (401k) and life insurance.
- Vacation, Personal, and Sick time off.
