Sr. Manager Beauty & Accessories Company Planning

About the Role

The Sr. Manager of Beauty & Accessories Company Planning leads the cross-brand forecast processes for sales, margin, and inventory for the Beauty and Accessories categories across Gap Inc Brands. You are a strategic and influential financial partner to both the centralized Beauty and Accessory teams as well as Brand Company Planning, Merchandise Planning, Inventory Management, Commercial Planning and Marketing teams. This role is critical in bringing the Beauty and Accessories strategic priorities to life in our financials and ensuring that we continue to accelerate our growth.

What You'll Do

• Scope: Own financial Sales, Margin, Inventory forecasts by Brand / Channel / Market / Expression for the Beauty and Accessories Business Units.

• Lead the forecast processes through influential and actionable hindsighting, and outstanding cross-functional leadership. Key processes include: Weekly Business Reviews and forecast, Annual Budget, Monthly Forecasts, Seasonal Planning.

• Own daily and weekly monitoring of sales, margin, levers and inventory trends. Effectively articulate insights, risks, and opportunities.

• Produce ad hoc financial models and analyses that clearly quantify the cost / benefit of initiatives. Initiate analyses to solve problems, create alternatives, and provide recommendations based on quantitative and qualitative analysis.

• Advance, standardize and maintain forecast tools and reporting.

• Lead and partner across matrixed teams to ensure Brands are up to speed on Beauty and Accessory financial outlooks and needs to prevent surprises

• Cultivate an inclusive, creative, and results-oriented work environment with a strong commitment to our brand values.

Who You Are

• You’re a detail-oriented, insightful, and analytical thought partner with high proficiency in financial modeling and forecasting.

• You have strong technical aptitude, including the ability to learn and master company systems/tools and build out new ones as necessary to adapt to a fast-changing environment.

• You’re a great storyteller; you make sense of a vast range of information from multiple sources and provide a simple, accurate, and compelling recommendation to a variety of audiences.

• You have a curiosity that challenges the status quo. You take risks, learn quickly, and take swift action.

• You have an ability to manage multiple work streams with tight timelines.

• You’re a team player with a positive attitude and proven ability to develop effective and influential business relationships at all levels of the organization.

• 5+ years of financial planning, forecasting and analysis experience in retail required.

• Very strong command of Microsoft Excel. Essbase, Omniture, Power BI, NOVA and Venus a plus