Manager, FP&A Labor Finance and Productivity

Company Description

At National Vision, we believe everyone deserves to see their best to live their best. We help people by making quality eye care and eyewear more affordable and accessible. National Vision is one of the largest optical retail companies in the United States with over 1,200 stores. We operate four retail brands: America’s Best Contacts & Eyeglasses, Eyeglass World, and Vista Optical inside select Fred Meyer stores and on select military bases. We offer an innovative culture where training is a priority, hard work is praised, and career growth is a reality.

We are hiring for a Manager - Labor Planning and Analytics to join our growing team!

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.