Senior Manager – Investor Relations & Business Insights

Summary of Position

The position of Senior Manager, Investor Relations & Business Insights will help in developing and executing the IR strategy, operating plans, and global IR program, while also serving as a critical member of the Global Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. This role is uniquely positioned in the organization to garner external feedback and bring back to the business, creating a powerful feedback loop to empower internal and external stakeholders with the best information and insights.

The primary objective of the IR program is to educate and update investors and security analysts about the company’s long-term strategic, operational, and financial vision and performance. The program must accurately represent and reflect the company.

Reporting to the Vice President, FP&A, with a dotted line to the SVP, Investor Relations, this role will work regularly with senior management, finance teams, marketing, product, and internal legal counsel. This is a unique opportunity to work in an ever changing, dynamic, and truly global organization. The Senior Manager, Investor Relations & Business Insights is an influential leader, with the presence and understanding to enroll others, and the curiosity, acumen, and polish to build and maintain relationships at all levels, inside and outside the organization.

This position requires a self-starter, who can initiate and drive continuous improvement efforts in the Investor Relations function and pursue intellectual curiosities across our financials and business operations. We work in a fast-paced environment where keen attention to detail and the ability to work nimbly is crucial to success.

Essential Functions

• Responsible for helping drive and deliver a comprehensive investor relations program
• Helps lead the quarterly earnings process, including preparing and drafting press releases, conference call scripts, Q&A and presentation materials
• Responsible for developing key messaging for non-earnings-related events, including talking points and presentation materials, financial media, conferences, one-on-one meetings
• Organize and coordinate investor meetings, conferences, road show and other activities
• Serves as a contact with the investment community, relaying feedback, and perceptions to senior leadership
• Partner with broader Finance team and leaders in the organization to drive impact thru P&L improvement projects, investment decision support, and KPI management
• Ability to roll up sleeves, dig into the data, synthesize key findings, and present to all levels of executive leadership
• Identify specific areas of continued performance improvement to pursue, with an internal consultant lens, and support execution through collaboration with cross functional leaders and teams
• Provide strategic, financial, and overall business support to ad-hoc projects and recurring activities
• Create models, analysis and presentations that condense complex topics into actionable information
• Build & generate analysis from a variety of different data sources and functional groups on a global basis
• Overall Financial Health – ratio analysis and target setting, cost efficiency measures, rolling forecast, short-term and long-term scenario planning
• Help manage sell-side analyst relationships and maintain and track all investor communications
• Collaborate with SharkNinja FP&A team, as a strategic partner within the company, bringing external knowledge and educational awareness of financial goals and areas of focus within the company
• Maintain and track comparable organization metrics and competitive intelligence including but not limited to, peers, customers, and other industry benchmarks
• Keeps abreast of best IR practices driving continuous improvement within the practice

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree required in Business Administration, Finance, or similar field; MBA preferred
• Minimum of 6-8+ years of relevant work experience in Finance, at least 4 years with publicly traded company, and/or investment bank or fund
• Robust quantitative skill set and an analytical, intellectually curious mindset that is both data-driven and experience-driven
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work both independently and cross functionally with various global teams
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task, manage to tight deadlines, and maintain strong detail orientation
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills required, especially Excel and PowerPoint