Commercial Strategy Analyst

Future Beauty Brands (formerly PPI Beauty); Bentonville (AR); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Future Beauty Brands is seeking an analytical Commercial Strategy Analyst to join our Bentonville team. You will own data hierarchy, dashboards, and standardized reporting tools that drive category recommendations across our CAC, BAC, and Self Tan brands.

You’ll partner with Nielsen, Circana, and other data sources, ensuring accurate, timely data delivery. This role offers visibility and collaboration across the Commercial Strategy group and senior leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; Master’s degree a plus.
• Experience in consumer packaged goods or cross-functional roles is a plus.
• Detail-oriented with ability to build and maintain data structures used across teams.

Responsibilities

• Own data hierarchy, dashboards, and recurring reporting for CAC/BAC/Self Tan categories.
• Maintain data tools infrastructure and templates for consistency across brands.
• Collaborate with data vendors to ensure timely, accurate data delivery and insights.

Skills

analytical thinking

Excel skills

syndicated data experience

vendor management

data infrastructure

dashboard reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master’s degree (plus)

Tools

Excel

Nielsen

Circana

Job description

Future Beauty Brands is an entrepreneurial, privately held / private equity backed company that creates and distributes strong brands of makeup tools, body care accessories, and self-tanning products in over sixty countries. Our 70+ year old company is a high-growth, beauty business with a focus on exceptional quality products at affordable prices developed through innovation and on-trend design. Future Beauty Brands has a fast-paced culture, with the senior management team coming from major CPG companies and having strong records of growing businesses. The company has been recognized on Inc.’s Top 5000 fastest-growing privately held companies to work for 3 years in a row. Future Beauty Brands’ six core brands are EcoTools®, Freeman®, Isle of Paradise®, Real Techniques®, Tan Luxe®, and Tanologist®

DEPT/LOCATION

Sales Office – Bentonville, AR (Hybrid- 3 days - Tues, Wed, Thurs in office)

Great office location in Bentonville Square.

REPORTS TO

Director of Commercial Strategy

About the Role

We're looking for an analytical, detail-oriented Commercial Strategy Analyst to join our growing team. This role is central to how Future Beauty Brands turns syndicated retail data into decisions — owning the data infrastructure, reporting, and standardized tools that the Commercial Strategy team relies on to advise the business across our Cosmetic Accessories (CAC), Bath Accessories (BAC), and Self Tan categories. This is a foundational analytics role: you'll be the team's source of truth for data hierarchy, dashboards, recurring reporting, and vendor management, ensuring the Commercial Strategy Lead, Accessories Manager, and Self Tan Manager always have accurate, timely, well-organized data to build their category recommendations on.

This is a highly visible, collaborative role within the company with a knowledgeable, supportive team.

Scope

Owns the data tools and processes of the Commercial Strategy team: data hierarchy and mapping, dashboard and reporting infrastructure, standardized deck and workbook templates, and key retail-calendar/POD tracking. Manages relationships with data vendors (Nielsen, Stackline, and similar sources) to ensure accurate, timely data delivery. Produces recurring reporting and market insight summaries that the Accessories Manager, Self Tan Manager, and Commercial Strategy Lead use to build category points of view, retailer meeting content, and reset/mod impact analyses across brands including Real Techniques, EcoTools, Tanologist, Freeman, Isle of Paradise, and Tan Luxe.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Build and maintain the recurring reporting cadence — weekly, monthly, and quarterly — for CAC, BAC, and Self Tan categories across key retail partners (Walmart, Target, Ulta, CVS, Walgreens).
• Own dashboard and data tools infrastructure, building and improving repeatable, automated reporting tools (Excel, PowerPoint, and related platforms) that scale across brands and categories.
• Produce market insights summaries and topline output using the team's tools and dashboards, translating raw syndicated data into clear, digestible takeaways.
• Develop and maintain standardized deck and workbook templates and chart formats used across the Commercial Strategy team, so reporting is consistent and repeatable.
• Own key dates and POD (point-of-distribution) tracking, keeping the team ahead of retailer resets, mod dates, and distribution changes.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for data vendor management, resolving coding, item mapping, and data quality issues with Nielsen and other providers.
• Own and maintain the team's data hierarchy, ensuring category, brand, and item-level mapping stays accurate and consistent across Nielsen and other syndicated data sources.
• Support the Accessories Manager and Self Tan Manager with the underlying data and analysis for retailer meeting content, reset/mod impact analyses, and shopper insights research.
• Provide data support for sales and marketing ad-hoc requests, and assist with executive/board reporting requests as needed.
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure insights are the consistent, authoritative source for data interpretation across the organization.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree; Master’s degree is a plus
• Experience in consumer packaged goods environment; cross-functional role is a plus (Sales, Logistics, Analytics, Category, Brand)

SKILL REQUIREMENTS

• Highly analytical, with excellent Excel skills (SUMIFS, INDIRECT, SUMPRODUCT, conditional formatting, pivot tables, etc) and comfortable building repeatable reporting tools
• Experience with syndicated retail data (Nielsen, Circana, or similar) strongly preferred
• Detail-oriented with the ability to build and maintain data structures that others depend on for accuracy
• Comfortable managing vendor relationships and resolving data discrepancies directly
• Organized self-starter who can independently own infrastructure and reporting cadences with minimal oversight
• Curious mindset, focused on uncovering the “why” behind the numbers
• Thrives in a fast-paced environment and maintains an enthusiastic attitude
• Clear communicator who can translate data into insights usable by non-analytical stakeholders