September 6
🏢 In-office - Los Angeles
• As the Senior Business Operations and Planning Analyst/Manager at ZURU, you will be the driving force behind growth optimisation, leveraging your expertise in business analytics. • In this pivotal role, you will excel at delivering actionable insights through meticulous data analysis, enabling effective decision-making. • Your financial acumen will guide the construction of Profit and Loss statements and identify strategic opportunities. • Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will play a key part in customer-facing interactions and support strategic initiatives, ensuring ZURU's continued success and market leadership. • Analytical support for retailer-level sales performance and proactive SKU management. • Provide Weekly, Monthly, and seasonal Forecasts to drive growth and manage excess inventory. • Maximize POS performance with in-stock management and End of Selling Period inventory transition. • Analyze and summarize item/brand performance, publishing findings and insights. • Prepare ad-hoc reports in response to business needs. • Analyze product assortment and child-level performance for optimal product mix recommendations. • Research, analyze, and publish relevant industry and market trends. • Build and maintain Profit and Loss statements, analyzing revenue, cost, and margins by product, brand, class, and category for informed recommendations. • Collaborate with Inventory/Demand Planners and Buyers for optimized inventory management. • Engage with ZURU VP of Sales, Commercial, Marketing, and Operations for effective business alignment. • Present sales, operations, and financial data to Retailer’s team during key meetings. • Support Sales in Line Review, JBP, Forecasting, and Buyer’s meeting preparation. • Address requests from Sales, Commercial, and Marketing teams regarding POS information. • Assist in accurately preparing and distributing weekly/monthly POS reports, reviewing with specific sales teams for actionable insights. • Identify opportunities for improved efficiencies and timely communication of business performance. • Document key processes and best practices for sharing across teams. • Map inefficiencies/waste, propose and implement scalable solutions. • Deliver a key ZURU project driving impactful change annually.