Overview
This role serves as a critical analytical partner to Merchandising and Category leadership, shaping how pricing, promotions, assortment, and category profitability are evaluated and improved. The position is highly analytical and SQL-intensive, requiring hands-on work with complex data to deliver clear, decision-ready recommendations that influence commercial outcomes.
The organization also supports a “Work Your Way” model. Job applicants should confirm eligibility based on their state (details listed under Location).
Responsibilities
- Partner with Merchandising and Category leadership to support decisions on:
- Pricing strategy
- Promotional effectiveness
- Assortment planning
- Category-level profitability at scale
- Independently query and model large-scale datasets in Snowflake.
- Build and apply Price, Volume, Mix (PVM) analyses, including creating PVM models from the ground up, isolating business drivers, and translating financial mechanics into executive-level narratives.
- Own financial rigor behind new SKU and assortment launches, including:
- Forecasting
- Margin modeling
- Cannibalization analysis
- Post-launch performance measurement across multiple concurrent launches
- Evaluate marketing spend and incrementality, partnering with Marketing and FP&A leadership to assess ROI, trade-offs, and downstream impacts to:
- Demand
- Margin
- Inventory position
- Lead in-depth financial modeling, PVM analysis, and scenario planning to identify margin improvement, inventory efficiency, and category profitability levers.
- Communicate data-dense findings clearly to senior stakeholders and drive cross-functional alignment.
- Proactively identify where deeper analysis is needed.
Requirements
- Proven experience partnering directly with Merchandising, Category, or Commercial leadership in a senior operational finance capacity, driving decisions on pricing, promotional effectiveness, assortment planning, and category profitability.
- Deep, hands-on expertise in Price, Volume, Mix (PVM) analysis, including building PVM models from scratch and translating complex financial mechanics into decision-making narratives.
- Extensive SQL expertise, including writing complex, performant queries independently against large transactional datasets (Snowflake or equivalent) to build financial models and dashboards without reliance on data engineering support.
- Track record owning end-to-end financial support for new SKU, brand, or assortment launches, including forecasting, margin modeling, cannibalization analysis, and post-launch performance measurement across multiple concurrent launches.
- Experience evaluating marketing spend and incrementality, partnering with Marketing and FP&A leadership to assess ROI and downstream impacts to demand, margin, and inventory position.
Preferred Qualifications
- 7–10+ years of progressive experience in financial analysis, FP&A, or merchandising finance; retail or ecommerce exposure strongly preferred.
- Strong Power BI skills and advanced Excel skills to support automated, scalable reporting infrastructure.
- Experience operating at the autonomy expected at a Principal level.
Compensation & Benefits
- Generous vacation policy plus paid time-off for your wedding week.
- Paid parental leave.
- Support for parents of growing families.
- Affordable medical, dental, and vision plans with coast-to-coast coverage.
- Free telehealth.
- On-demand mental health resources.
- Opportunity to receive special gifts, swag store credit, or donations to a nonprofit of your choice.
- Recognition through awards for people pursuing impacts.
- Paid time off to support community giving and social impact.
Location
- Work Your Way eligibility: eligible applicants must reside in one of the following states:
- Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
- The corporate team meets in Lincoln on a quarterly basis for one week of in-person collaboration and team activities.