Analyst headcount crucial to supporting real-time data management and analysis to ensure accuracy/timeliness in execution of critical reporting for sales forecasting, gross planning, and inventory management that drive strategic decision-making. The position will report to the Director, Key Account Strategy & Planning - Americas Wholesale. The ideal candidate is passionate about data organization and clarity, is energized by the idea of using data to help set strategy.

Overall Responsibilities:

This role is responsible for building and maintaining tools and data related to retail channel sell-in and sell-through. This individual will work with a high degree of accuracy, is comfortable managing many details, flexible to stay on top of and track changes, is analytical with the ability to convert data into insights, and will support the brand’s wholesale activities in the Americas with the following:

• Facilitate data collection, organization, report building, and analysis, extracting key insights to support business strategy and planning.
• Own and manage data updates in the BI system, compiling and maintaining accurate retail and gross sales data (current and historical) by retailer account and channel, from various sources, including but not limited to: retailer OTB, SKU-Level sell though & PO values, calendar events (launch dates, discontinuations, SRP updates, promotions, etc.)
• Collaborate with internal partners (Sales Operations/Planning and Key Accounts teams) to report on sell-in & sell-through data across Americas Wholesale Key Accounts and assist in building key account forecasting.
• Maintain sell-in and sell-through forecasts, support updating forecasts and track changes (launch SKUs, LE, AOP, RF2, RF3, LRP)
• Conduct weekly sales reporting and analysis, effectively communicating insights, identifying opportunities, and tracking performance.
• Prepare reports, slides, and presentation materials for meetings as needed, and ensure actionable meeting notes are executed with follow-up on next steps.
• Develop reports and data visualization tools for LE analysis, forecasting, inventory management, ranks, and bottoms-up analysis by SKU, retailer, and channel.
• Analyze retailer inventory needs using sell-in, sell-through, and on-hand data, and communicate actionable recommendations to internal partners.
• Maintain sales tracking tools in Excel, generate custom reports from cloud-based systems, and publish weekly internal sales recaps.
• Track monthly mix-of-business plans for retailers, identify category-level risks for marketing support, and consolidate long-term innovation pipeline opportunities.
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses to support strategic initiatives and decision-making.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required minimum.
• 2+ years in sales analysis, account management, logistics or planning.
• Experience working in beauty industry is preferred.
• Strong analytical ability; attention to detail and organizational/time management skills.
• Strong cross-functional collaboration skill required; experience working with partners in finance, accounting and logistics preferred.
• Ability to work with data from multiple sources and interpret the data to provide actionable conclusions.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills required.
• Ability to learn new systems quickly and leverage systems and information to influence others.

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