Versant’s Digital Platforms and Ventures group is looking for a Manager, Revenue Planning. This role is an integral part of the Revenue Strategy & Operations team, responsible for partnering across the organization to drive visibility into revenue performance and growth opportunities across the digital portfolio. This position will develop and oversee best in class consolidations and reporting processes through strong collaboration across Finance, Pricing Strategy, Rev Ops, and Data & Analytics teams. The role provides the opportunity for extensive visibility with the DPV leadership team and requires the ability to effectively communicate with executive stakeholders to drive business strategies, and synthesize and communicate data into proactive insights that drive data informed decisions.
Responsibilities
- Deeply understand the digital platform ecosystem of products and services; define and analyze metrics that evaluate the trajectory and inform the success of direct-to-consumer revenue streams, technology services, payments services, and advertising and sponsorships
- Lead revenue consolidations process across DPV portfolio including Budget, Forecast, and Long-Range Planning cycles
- Prepare executive and board level presentations to DPV and Versant leadership
- Partner with FP&A and operators to ensure timely and accurate reporting of revenue and KPI performance against goals and historical trends, driving accountability and transparency of business health
- Provide analytical support for business decisions, providing insights to support financial objectives, ensuring alignment and cohesive strategies that drive revenue and accelerate business growth
- Provide mentorship for direct report(s), clearly defining goals and performance standards for team members and foster a collaborative work environment that emphasizes value added work and delivering results
- Provide various ad-hoc analyses including variance analysis, sensitivities, and other requests from senior management
Leadership and Culture
- Bring a collaborative, hands-on approach to the work
- Promote a strong sense of urgency for reaching goals and key deliverables
- Develop open communication and productive work relationships with senior leadership, operations leads, and the broader finance and data teams
What Success Looks Like
- A well-run, accountable team with clear ownership, clear expectations, and scalable processes
- Revenue performance reporting is accurate, trusted, easily accessible, and easy to understand
- Risks and opportunities of revenue performance against plan are proactively identified and communicated
- Strong cross-functional network and productive working relationships where stakeholders come to you to help solve business problems