Analyst, Concession Business Planning

JOB DUTIES

• Planning
  • Long-Range Planning (LRP) for all current and potential future merchandise concession businesses
    • Maintain Current vs LRP vs AOP vs MFP
  • Quantify and communicate to key stakeholders, change impacts related to conversion timing
  • Monitor and validate monthly MFP projection updates including impacts of both owned and concession departments (Sales, Purchases, RTVs, Workroom, GM)
  • Monitor and validate all Concession locations are accurately reflected on strategy matrix
  • Maintain and share visibility to status of owned and concession financials during periods of transition, including financial bridge between systemic projections and outstanding departments
  • Partner with Concession team and concession brands on sales forecasts, keeping internal stakeholders abreast of expectations and changes
  • Establish and monitor daily sales plans, sharing insights with internal teams and brand partners
• Analysis and Reporting
  • Analyze, recap, and share monthly insights into concession business performance
    • Versus plan, sales productivity, comparison to owned businesses, assortment, and inventory insights
  • Partner with Customer Insights team to analyze and communicate customer impacts as businesses transition to concession
  • Partner with Concession and Store Planning teams to establish and maintain systemic record of prior, current and future brand shops. Analyze and produce visibility on productivity levels.
  • Create analytical materials to support brand business review meetings
• Negotiation strategy support
  • Partner with merchant teams to maintain sales forecasting at category and location level to support financial modeling and concession negotiations
  • Develop and maintain detailed P&L of all current and potential concession businesses
  • Maintain close contact with concession team, track and keep merchant teams abreast of brand negotiations status, updates, and changes
• Work on special projects, ad hoc analysis, and initiatives related to concession management.

JOB REQUIREMENTS

• This position is responsible for providing detailed and accurate input into elevated presentations with internal and external partners. Attention to detail and follow-through is critical.
• Outstanding organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to communicate effectively and succinctly, both verbally and in writing via email and Microsoft PowerPoint
• Ability to conduct complex quantitative analysis and build analytical models using Microsoft Excel
• Ability to compile and structure data in efficient and scalable formats
• Experience with, or strong desire to learn SQL
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple assignments and meet tight deadlines
• Ability to work independently and adapt to changing work priorities

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• Merchandising expertise - understanding of retail merchandising basics (i.e. buying office / category management) and merchandising organizational structures and processes
• Mastery of Microsoft Excel
• Four-year college degree or equivalent experience
• Passion for excellence. High energy, self-motivated, and results oriented
• Ability to effectively prioritize initiatives and collaborate across teams with ability to work under tight timelines and with quick turnarounds as needed.
• Demonstrated ability to build strong working relationships with business leads, and key internal and external partners.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to effectively present analytics data to business users.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or ability required.