JAKKS Pacific, Inc., a leading designer and marketer of toys and consumer products, with a wide range of products that feature some of the most popular brands and children's toy licenses in the world, currently seeks an experienced, energetic, self-starter for the role of
Senior Manager, Strategy and Analytics for our Corporate Headquarters in Santa Monica, California. This newly-created position will report directly to the CFO, while partnering closely with the rest of the finance team and the business broadly.
Responsibilities include:
Partnering with the CFO to accelerate the finance team’s ability to enable the company to grow revenues and profitability faster, by:
- Crafting insightful, replicable analyses to identify revenue and margin growth across brands, categories, channels and markets, through establishing unit volume targets, optimizing pricing and establishing appropriate cost control mechanisms.
- Partnering with functional teams to support and often create analytic frameworks to establish clear guidelines/playbooks for various operational initiatives, inclusive of ecommerce, single-site customer orders and inventory management
- Establishing consistent processes around performance measurement, dashboard metrics and other relevant key performance indicators (KPI’s)
- Project managing corporate-level projects and initiatives across a wide range of areas, inclusive of deep dives into specific business areas, international expansion, as well as bolt-on technology assessment and implementation
- When appropriate, evaluating potential acquisition candidates, leading relevant analyses and building strategic rationale and integration plans
Skills & Experience required:
- Relevant experience includes:
- Successful experience with any and all of the Essential Functions, particularly in a consumer-centric environment
- Strategy/management consulting, particularly with a consumer/retail focus
- Generating insights to improve decision-making at all levels of the organization
- E-Commerce
- Finance Transformation Projects
- Licensing, Joint Venture, Franchise and Distribution business models
- Competitive analysis & benchmarking
- MBA or related certification
- Global business experience: familiarity with consumer retail environment, globally
- Foreign language skills, plus
- Passion for the toys/entertainment/kid-targeted consumer product industries, a plus
- Highly analytical
- Accustomed to working independently and managing up, down and across an organization
- Capable of making a meaningful contribution without solid-line direct reports
- Accustomed to working at a fast pace; expert in assessing a situation, making a decision, and filtering ambiguity into actionable key next steps and decisions that need to be taken
- Comfortable and adept at making the complex simple.
- Strong interpersonal skills, capable of establishing strong working partnerships with all functions within the organization
- Embraces establishing new processes and being an agent of change
- Collaborative leader with exceptional influencing skills and experience working across many areas and levels of an organization
- Ability to execute against time-sensitive data requests, working with internal and external stakeholders
- Outstanding written communication skills: clear and concise, particularly presentation decks
Our Benefits:
- Health and Wellness: Medical, dental, vision, disability, life & accident insurance and employee assistance program
- Savings: 401K matching, pre-tax spending accounts, and employee discount programs
- Compensation: JAKKS Pacific offers a competitive salary. Compensation for this role is commensurate with experience, qualifications, location, and education and typically ranges from $125,000 to $175,000 annually.
Company Overview
A leading designer and marketer of children’s toys and consumer products, JAKKS Pacific® is always on the lookout for talented, bright and creative individuals to join our ever-growing team.
Best known for our toy and entertainment products, JAKKS produces impressive and innovative products across multiple categories spanning from action figures, collectibles, and dolls, to high performance activity toys and vehicles, and let’s not forget our deep portfolios of beloved licensed characters. In other words, we work hard to make play more fun, and we believe it has paid off.
Included in Fortune’s 100 Fastest Growing Companies for four years in a row, and Forbes’ 100 Best Small Companies for three years, JAKKS is an aggressive and passionate company, with a commitment to customers and a dedication to growing our business.
Our goal is to continuously cultivate a talented and diverse workforce while providing a safe and productive work environment and an excellent career growth opportunity while working with a dynamic team who loves what they do and for a Company that ultimately makes children smile, play and succeed!
Jakks Pacific, Inc is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
NO RELOCATION ASSISTANCE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS POSITON.
No Recruiters Please.
