Senior Operations Lead, Growth Platforms
About The Position
The Senior Operations Lead, Growth Platform is a pivotal leadership role responsible for driving operational excellence to manage planning across the growth platforms. This position provides strategic oversight of financial process—including Long-Range Planning (LRP) and Annual Business Planning (ABP)—while managing the Platform performance P&Ls and the forecasting process with the category demand planners including managing the A&P and annual budget process. The ideal candidate thrives in a growth mindset, dynamic, cross-functional environment, bringing a proactive mindset to identify risks, opportunities, and trade-offs that drive portfolio performance and long-term business growth.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree
- Exceptional analytical acumen, financial P&L management, storytelling capability, and the ability to connect the dots across complex data sets to influence senior stakeholders.
- 5+ years of experience in analytics, insights, strategy, finance, or related fields (CPG or consumer health preferred)
- Experience working with forecasting, financial planning, or demand planning processes
- Advanced Excel skills; experience with market data (e.g., Nielsen, Circana) and consumer panel data (e.g., Numerator)
- Demonstrated success operating in cross-functional, matrixed environments
Nice To Haves
- Growth Mindset, Ability to thrive in ambiguity, ability to move with speed, strong personal and communication skills and resilience.
- Strong ability to connect disparate data into a cohesive enterprise narrative
- Excellent communication and storytelling skills, especially with senior audiences
- Comfort navigating ambiguity and leading through complex, evolving business questions
- Highly collaborative mindset with the ability to influence across functions and levels
- Strong leadership and coaching capabilities with a focus on developing others
Responsibilities
- Lead platform business cases and driving progress against strategic and performance KPIs including ongoing local and global dashboards.
- Own the Long-Range Planning and Annual Business Planning processes for GCC.
- Deliver monthly performance reports to the teams and influence YTG forecast working closely with the categories
- Manage budget and ensuring alignment with strategic priorities.
Benefits
- competitive pay
- comprehensive benefits program
- generous 401(k) plan
- tuition reimbursement
- time off programs
- 6 months paid parental leave
- healthcare programs where the company pays for the majority of your medical coverage for you and your family
- discretionary bonus based on the achievement of key business performance
- other incentive/recognition programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
