Manager, Business Insights - Data-Driven Growth

Abrams, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous paid holidays

Summer Fridays

Year-end office closure

Comprehensive health benefits

401k retirement savings

Vacation, Personal, and Sick time

Job summary

ABRAMS in New York, NY is seeking a Manager of Business Insights to join the Sales Team. This role partners with Sales, Publishing, and Operations to deliver financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis that informs strategic decisions.

The ideal candidate has 4–7 years in business analytics or FP&A, advanced Excel, and the ability to translate large datasets into actionable insights for senior leadership. This hybrid position requires in-office presence three days per week.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field.
• 4–7 years of experience in business analytics, financial planning and analysis, sales analytics, or related finance roles.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup formulas, and financial modeling.
• Ability to interpret large datasets and communicate clear, actionable insights to financial and non-financial stakeholders.
• Excellent analytical, organizational, problem-solving, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.
• Collaborative, business-partner mindset with comfort presenting findings to senior leadership.

Responsibilities

• Support annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long-range planning across publishing divisions and sales channels.
• Prepare monthly and quarterly reporting packages with variance analysis, trend commentary, and actionable business insights.
• Build and maintain financial models to evaluate title performance, account profitability, promotional investments, and new business opportunities.
• Partner with Finance during month-end close to provide title- and account-level performance insights for leadership.
• Monitor point-of-sale trends, returns, co-op and promotional spend, and other commercial drivers to identify risks and opportunities.
• Analyze promotion performance, pricing, placement, and retail marketing initiatives to assess financial impact.
• Develop insights across titles, authors, accounts, categories, and market segments to support sales and publishing decisions.
• Combine internal sales data with consumer and syndicated market data to identify shifts in demand, format trends, and category performance.
• Translate complex datasets into concise findings, recommendations, reports, and dashboards for senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Partner with Sales, Publishing, Marketing, Operations, IT, and Finance on strategic initiatives and business reviews.
• Streamline reporting, improve data quality, and automate recurring financial and analytical processes.
• Provide ad hoc analysis to support acquisition planning, inventory decisions, and other high-priority projects.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Data interpretation

Stakeholder communication

Analytical thinking

Deadline-driven

Collaboration

Education

Bachelors degree

Tools

Power BI

Job description

ABRAMS in New York, NY is seeking a Manager of Business Insights to join the Sales Team. This role partners with Sales, Publishing, and Operations to deliver financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis that informs strategic decisions.

The ideal candidate has 4–7 years in business analytics or FP&A, advanced Excel, and the ability to translate large datasets into actionable insights for senior leadership. This hybrid position requires in-office presence three days per week.