Senior Business Planning Manager

Whoop Whoop · Consumer · Boston, MA · Accessories & Apparel

Senior Business Planner for Apparel & Accessories at WHOOP, focusing on strategic financial planning, performance management, and growth opportunities. This role involves defining planning frameworks, setting KPI standards, and guiding leadership decisions through data and structured thinking. Responsibilities include developing sales plans, partnering with cross-functional teams, owning executive reviews, and evaluating new business initiatives. Requires 10+ years of experience in business planning, strategy, finance, or analytics, with a strong track record in forecasting, KPI reporting, and influencing senior leadership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Develops sales plan for the Apparel & Accessories business, spanning short-term forecasts through multi-year outlooks, by defining forecasting methodologies and assumptions that align demand, inventory, and financial outcomes
  2. Partner closely with Finance, Inventory Planning, and Marketing leadership to ensure an execution strategy against the financial forecast.
  3. Define the KPI framework for the Apparel & Accessories business, including but not limited to revenue per member, site traffic, conversion rate, margin, and growth. Clearly delineate how we will hit those KPIs, ensuring stakeholders are aligned on strategy & initiatives.
  4. Own executive-level business reviews, including weekly, monthly, and quarterly readouts. Translate complex performance data into concise, decision-oriented narratives for senior leadership.
  5. Lead the evaluation and sizing of new business opportunities across Apparel & Accessories, including new products, assortments, pricing strategies, and channel initiatives. Develop robust business cases that assess revenue potential, margin impact, operational complexity, and long-term scalability.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of experience in business planning, strategy, finance, or analytics
  • Deep experience owning sales forecasts, target setting, and executive KPI reporting
  • Proven track record of influencing senior leadership decisions through data and structured thinking
  • Strong experience sizing and evaluating new business or growth opportunities
  • Advanced Excel/Sheets and strong comfort with data visualization and planning tools
  • Exceptional communicator with the ability to simplify complexity and drive alignment
  • Comfortable operating with high ambiguity and high impact

Nice to have

  • ideally in apparel, accessories, and in omni-channel businesses

What the JD emphasized

  • strategic owner
  • senior thought partner
  • define the planning frameworks
  • set the standards for KPI management
  • shape how the business evaluates and prioritizes growth opportunities
  • critical role in guiding leadership decisions through data, insight, and structured thinking
  • Develops sales plan
  • defining forecasting methodologies and assumptions
  • align demand, inventory, and financial outcomes
  • Define the KPI framework
  • Clearly delineate how we will hit those KPIs
  • ensuring stakeholders are aligned on strategy & initiatives
  • Own executive-level business reviews
  • Translate complex performance data into concise, decision-oriented narratives for senior leadership
  • Proactively surface risks, opportunities, and scenario-based recommendations
  • Lead the evaluation and sizing of new business opportunities
  • Develop robust business cases that assess revenue potential, margin impact, operational complexity, and long-term scalability
  • 10+ years of experience in business planning, strategy, finance, or analytics
  • Deep experience owning sales forecasts, target setting, and executive KPI reporting
  • Proven track record of influencing senior leadership decisions through data and structured thinking
  • Strong experience sizing and evaluating new business or growth opportunities
  • Advanced Excel/Sheets and strong comfort with data visualization and planning tools
  • Exceptional communicator with the ability to simplify complexity and drive alignment
  • Comfortable operating with high ambiguity and high impact