Manager, Planning
About The Position
The Manager, ECM Operations, Planning is an integral part of the team within the North American eCommerce & Customer Marketing (ECM) function. This role brings structure, analytical rigor, and data integrity to how ECM annual planning and investment decisions are managed. The role owns the day-to-day management of complex Excel-based budget and planning files, ensures the accuracy and reliability of planning data across multiple scenarios and simulations, and translates detailed inputs into clear, stakeholder-ready analyses and visualizations. This role will provide strategic input into the development of future technology-enabled planning solutions and support the rollout and adoption of the system across the team.
Requirements
- Advanced Excel Mastery: Demonstrated experience building and managing complex, matrixed templates and detailed working files, including advanced formulas, pivot tables, and budget or planning tools.
- Data Integrity Management: Proven experience maintaining data integrity across complex planning, reporting, budgeting, or forecasting processes with many moving pieces and stakeholder inputs.
- Strong analytical skills and comfort working with large, detailed, and frequently changing data sets.
- Experience managing interdependencies and running multiple simulations or scenarios to support planning and investment decisions.
- Ability to translate complex data into clear reporting, recommendations, and compelling stakeholder narratives, with strong visualization skills for leadership audiences.
- High attention to detail and strong standards for accuracy across planning and reporting outputs.
- Experience helping build or improve reporting platforms, tools, or data processes, including identifying pain points, recommending practical improvements, and supporting change management to drive adoption.
- Ability to simplify complexity for different audiences and turn detailed inputs into clear, actionable messages.
- Able to navigate a large matrix organization effectively.
- Possesses excellent organization and project management skills.
Responsibilities
- Build, manage, and continuously improve the complex, matrixed Excel-based budget and planning files used to manage ECM annual investment decisions, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and strong data integrity across inputs.
- Own the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of manually managed Excel-based planning data.
- Manage interdependencies across planning inputs and run scenarios and simulations as priorities shift to help ensure investment decisions remain aligned to broader business strategy.
- Create tailored views for different stakeholders and translate complex data into clear, compelling stories and visuals that help leadership understand planning strategy, tradeoffs, and outcomes.
- Build and maintain scalable templates and tracking tools that create structure across planning routines, helping bridge current manual processes with the team's future technology-enabled planning solutions. Rollout across 30+ team members, providing comprehensive training and support to ensure seamless adoption.
- Support planning rituals and routines by providing the data, analysis, and recommendations needed to inform investment decisions and business planning conversations.
- Help stabilize and improve current-state planning processes, reporting platforms, tools, and data processes while contributing to future reporting and platform-development efforts.
Benefits
- Medical, Prescription Drug, Dental, Vision, Screenings/Assessments
- Paid Time Off, Company Holidays, Leave of Absence, Flexible Work Arrangements, Recognition, Training
- Employee Assistance Program , Wellbeing Programs, Family Support Programs
- 401k, Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Disability
- Performance-based bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Education Level
No Education Listed
