If you're looking to grow your career at a company where creativity meets legacy, ABRAMS is the place for you. As a trailblazer in illustrated publishing since 1949, ABRAMS continues to set the standard for beautifully crafted books across art, design, culture, and children’s literature. As we continue to bring exceptional books to readers around the world, we're seeking a Manager of Business Insights to join our Sales Team!
The Manager, 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.
The ideal candidate combines strong financial planning and modeling skills with an interest in consumer behavior, market trends, and the publishing business. They will analyze title-, category-, and account-level performance; support budgeting and forecast cycles; administer the annual Sales incentive program; evaluate promotions and profitability; and translate large volumes of sales and market data into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
What you’d be doing:
Financial Planning & Reporting
- 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.
Publishing, Sales & Market Analytics
- 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.
Cross-Functional Partnership & Process Improvement
- 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.
We’re looking for someone who has:
- 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.
Highly preferred candidates also have:
- 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
This position is in New York, NY and follows a hybrid work schedule, requiring in-office presence three days per week.
The base salary range for this position is ($125,000 - $135,000) per year. The final offer will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, and qualifications.
What We Offer:
- Generous paid holidays and Summer Fridays.
- Company-paid year-end office closure between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day each year
- Comprehensive health benefits, including short-term and long-term disability.
- Retirement savings (401k) and life insurance.
- Vacation, Personal, and Sick time off.
About ABRAMS
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.
Skills Required
- 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
- 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 and 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
What We Do
ABRAMS is a book publisher specializing in art and illustrated works, publishing titles across art, photography, cooking, craft, comics, interior and garden design, entertainment, fashion, and popular culture. Its catalog also includes children’s books from board books and picture books through middle-grade and young-adult titles. The company creates and distributes books through multiple imprints, publishes gift and stationery products, and distributes titles for other publishers and cultural institutions.
