Job Description

This role is responsible for designing and institutionalizing a financially grounded labor planning and analytics framework that enables clear understanding of labor supply and demand dynamics, productivity, cost drivers, and tradeoffs across retail stores, labs, and clinical environments. It provides disciplined labor forecasts, consistent performance views, and decision-ready insights to support enterprise leadership. Reporting into Retail Finance and partnering closely FP&A, Business Intelligence, and Operations, this role serves as the enterprise leader for labor planning and analytics. The Sr Manager integrates labor data and systems, establishes planning and reporting standards, and builds operating rhythms that support proactive labor management aligned with financial and operational objectives.

What Would You Do? The Specifics.

Enterprise Labor Planning & Financial Stewardship

• Leads enterprise labor planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance management across retail stores, labs, and clinical environments, aligning labor economics with enterprise financial objectives.
• Owns the labor planning framework that translates labor demand, capacity, and productivity into financially coherent plans, forecasts, and performance views.
• Partners with Retail Finance to ensure labor plans are fully integrated into the broader retail P&L, margin, and leverage narratives.

Labor Analytics Framework & System Integration

• Designs and institutionalizes an enterprise labor analytics framework, reconciling labor-related systems, data sources, assumptions, and definitions into a consistent, trusted financial view.
• Establishes standards for labor metrics, KPIs, and analytical methodologies to support consistent interpretation across Finance, Operations, and executive leadership.
• Ensures labor analytics are scalable, auditable, and aligned with public-company governance and reporting expectations.

Planning, Forecasting & Risk Management

• Leads labor forecasting processes, including rolling forecasts, scenario analysis, and sensitivity modeling, enabling proactive management of labor-related risks and opportunities.
• Identifies emerging labor trends, constraints, and productivity drivers; quantifies financial impact and supports timely leadership decision-making.
• Ensures labor forecasts and plans remain aligned with enterprise targets while reflecting evolving operational realities.

Reporting, Insight & Decision Support

• Oversees labor performance reporting across daily, weekly, and monthly cadences, ensuring outputs are decision-oriented, analytically rigorous, and clearly connected to financial outcomes.
• Partners with Business Intelligence and Data & Analytics teams to define labor reporting requirements, dashboard logic, and adoption standards in a BI-driven environment.
• Translates complex labor dynamics into clear, decision-ready insights for Finance leadership, Retail executives, and board-level discussions.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Influence

• Serves as a key finance partner to Retail Operations, Workforce teams, Merchandising, and BI, supporting labor-related decisions through analytics, planning, and financial insight.
• Drives alignment across functions by establishing a shared fact base for labor discussions and enabling constructive tradeoff evaluation.
• Resolves analytical and planning disagreements through data, judgment, and collaboration, escalating material issues through Finance leadership as appropriate.

Leadership & Capability Development

• Leads and develops labor planning and analytics talent, setting expectations for analytical rigor, ownership, and enterprise thinking.
• Builds repeatable processes, operating rhythms, and documentation that institutionalize labor planning capabilities beyond individual contributors.
• Models the leadership behaviors expected of senior finance leaders at National Vision, including initiative, intellectual curiosity, disciplined execution, and cross-functional collaboration.

Qualifications

Work Experience

• 8+ years Progressive experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or corporate development with exposure to enterprise planning and reporting ((Required))
• 3+ years Leadership experience in multi-unit retail, healthcare, or consumer-facing business with distributed operations ((Required))

Education

• Four year college degree or equivalent experience. resulting in broad knowledge of a field related to the job, such as accounting, marketing, business administration, etc. (Required)
• Master's Degree MBA (Preferred)

Additional Skills

• Demonstrated success transforming manual or decentralized FP&A processes into standardized, automated structures (Required)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel (Required)
• Advanced Microsoft PowerPoint (Required)
• Expertise in data visualization tools (Power BI preferred; Tableau acceptable) (Required)
• Experience using enterprise planning systems (Oracle EPM, Hyperion, or similar) (Required)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate financial data into executive-ready insights (Required)
• Proven change-leadership capability within evolving FP&A or transformation environments (Required)

Additional Information

Taking Care of our People!

We understand the importance of financial health and security, and because of that, we provide competitive compensation to all Associates. We also offer a comprehensive benefits package including health and dental insurance, 401k retirement savings with company match, flex spending account, paid personal time off, paid company holidays, parental leave, employee eyewear discount and much, much more. At National Vision, we strive to deliver opportunities for professional growth and long-term career fulfillment. We provide training programs, access to educational courses and pride ourselves on the ever-increasing amount of promotions from within. #LI-SH1

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetic information, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics.