Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Potbelly Sandwich Works is a nationally recognized neighborhood sandwich shop looking for a Senior Manager in Marketing Finance. This role focuses on partnering with Marketing and Digital teams to drive growth through financial insights and strategic investment decisions.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary Finance partner to Marketing and Digital leadership, helping shape growth strategy and investment decisions
- Build and refine frameworks to evaluate marketing effectiveness, including ROI, payback, and incrementality
- Translate marketing and customer data into actionable insights that improve performance across channels
- Lead financial evaluation of campaigns, promotions, and tests to inform go/no-go decisions
- Drive pricing and promotional strategy through modeling of elasticity, mix, and competitive positioning
- Partner on test-and-learn agenda, ensuring rigorous prioritization and measurement of results
- Contribute to developing the annual Marketing budget and monthly forecasts
- Work closely with Marketing leadership to build long-term strategic plans and business cases to support presentations to senior leadership and the Board of Directors
- Direct and support various initiatives to improve and enhance financial processes, data visualization, reporting, etc. through Power BI, Planful and Excel
- Recruit, coach, and retain top talent in the Finance department
- Perform ad hoc analysis and work on project teams as the need arises
- Report to VP of Finance
Skills
- Minimum of 7 years of progressive career growth, ideally in a multi-unit, retail, or food business; high growth company and multi-channel experience a big plus (with focus on supporting marketing and/or e-commerce)
- Bachelor's degree in Finance
- Demonstrated leadership, team-building and coaching skills, experience building teams and supporting cross-functional partners
- Proven experience in budgeting/forecasting and various types of financial analysis
- Must be at an advanced Excel skill level and have experience with ad-hoc financial analysis and reporting tools such as Power BI, Planful, or other similar financial systems
- Sense of urgency and focus on results
- High energy level and intellectual curiosity, with a strong desire to learn
- Excellent problem solving, project management, and analytical skills
- Excellent communication, collaboration and influencing skills
- R and/or Python experience a plus
- Experience using complex statistical analysis and modeling to draw insights from large data sets is a big plus
Benefits
- Competitive pay with performance-based annual raises!
- Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Domestic Partnership Benefits
- Paid Parental Leave
- FSA and HSA with Employer Contribution
- Commuter Benefit Program
- Retirement Savings 401(k) WITH company match
- Employee Assistance Program
- Paid Time Off
- Discount Program
- Flexible Work Schedule
- Career growth opportunities
- Medical, Dental, Vision and Flexible Spending Account– We care about you and your family.
- 401(K) – We want to help secure your financial future.
- Time Off – We all need some time to relax, right?
- Employee Assistance Program – Things out of our control happen, we will help you get through it.
- Domestic Partner Benefits – We love who you love.
- Potbelly Meal Discounts – Hungry? We’ll feed you
- Work Life Balance – You have a life outside of work, we want you to enjoy it
Company Overview
Potbelly Sandwich Works is a restaurant chain serving sandwiches, soups, and shakes customized for customers. It is a sub-organization of RaceTrac Petroleum. It was founded in 1996, and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, USA, with a workforce of 5001-10000 employees. Its website is http://www.potbellysandwichworks.com.