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About the Role

The Manager of Business Insights will support strategic decision-making across sales, publishing, and operations. This role serves as a key analytics partner to the Sales Team and intersects with leaders across the business, delivering financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis that improve visibility into performance and help guide investment decisions.

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.

Requirements

• 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 a related finance role.
• Advanced Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup formulas, and financial modeling.
• Strong 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.
• Experience in book publishing, media, consumer products, or another title- and retail-driven industry.
• Familiarity with point-of-sale reporting, title-level profitability, inventory, returns, syndicated market data, and consumer analytics tools.
• Experience with Power BI or similar reporting and visualization tools.

Skills

• Excel
• Financial modeling
• Data analysis
• Reporting
• Forecasting
• Business insights
• Power BI

Location

• New York, NY

Work Type

• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 4-7 years

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

Salary/Compensations

• $125,000 - $135,000

Benefits

• Generous paid holidays
• Summer Fridays
• Company-paid year-end office closure
• Comprehensive health benefits
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Retirement savings (401k)
• Life insurance
• Vacation time off
• Personal time off
• Sick time off

About the Company

• Founded in 1949 as the first U.S. publisher to specialize in art and illustrated books, ABRAMS has a long-standing reputation for publishing visually stunning, critically acclaimed, and bestselling works.
• Today, ABRAMS continues to lead in the creation and distribution of high-quality books across a wide range of categories—including art, photography, design, fashion, entertainment, cooking, craft, and popular culture—as well as award-winning children’s and young adult titles under imprints such as Abrams Books for Young Readers, Amulet Books, and Abrams Appleseed.
• Headquartered in the creative heart of New York City, ABRAMS is home to a passionate team of editors, designers, marketers, and publishing professionals who bring bold ideas to life in collaboration with celebrated authors, artists, chefs, photographers, and cultural icons.
• Our books are distributed globally and have helped shape conversations in classrooms, kitchens, museums, and living rooms around the world.
• ABRAMS is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion—both in the stories we publish and in the culture we foster.
• Through programs like the ABRAMS Amplify Award, we uplift and support underrepresented voices in children’s publishing.
• Internally, we promote inclusive hiring practices and an environment where employees of all identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences are encouraged to bring their full selves to work.
• At ABRAMS, creativity, integrity, and collaboration are the foundation of everything we do.
• If you’re inspired by books that make a difference and want to be part of a team that values art, impact, and inclusion, we invite you to join us.
• Learn more at abramsbooks.com.

Equal Opportunity

• ABRAMS is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion—both in the stories we publish and in the culture we foster.
• Through programs like the ABRAMS Amplify Award, we uplift and support underrepresented voices in children’s publishing.
• Internally, we promote inclusive hiring practices and an environment where employees of all identities, backgrounds, and lived experiences are encouraged to bring their full selves to work.