Director, Retail WFM & Business Planning

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong>WHY JOIN ALO?</strong></p> <p>Mindful movement. It’s at the core of why we do what we do at ALO—it’s our calling. Because mindful movement in the studio leads to better living. It changes who yogis are off the mat, making their lives and their communities better. That’s the real meaning of studio-to-street: taking the consciousness from practice on the mat and putting it into practice in life.</p></div><p><strong>OVERVIEW</strong></p> <p>There couldn't be a better time to join Alo's Retail Operations team. As we continue the rapid global expansion, the WFM & Business Planning team sits at the center of our growth, enabling scalable store operations, labor efficiency, and a consistent and elevated customer experience across every region we operate in.</p> <p>The Director, Retail WFM & Business Planning is an enterprise leader responsible for defining, scaling, and executing Alo’s global WFM & business planning capability. This role owns our bottoms-up sales budgeting, monthly goal setting and reforecasting, labor budgeting and planning, and associated reporting capability.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>RESPONSBILITIES</strong></p> <p><em>Budgeting & Reporting</em></p> <ul> <li>Own our annual budgeting process, building bottoms-up budgets for all stores globally across sales, labor, and other P&L lines.</li> <li>Oversee reporting and storytelling around overall store performance, bridging from forecasts to actuals.</li> <li>Support cross-functional reporting requests, including development of enterprise-level platform-based reporting.</li> </ul> <p><em>Business Planning & Forecasting</em></p> <ul> <li>Oversee and refine regular reforecasting capabilities used to support business planning, product buys, promotional planning, and monthly goal setting.</li> <li>Partner with Technology, Data, and Analytics teams to evolve forecasting models, enhance reporting, and increase automation and self-service insight for field leaders.</li> <li>Oversee store bonus program management and execution.</li> <li>Support ad hoc analytics and reporting for pilots, initiatives, and executive requests.</li> <li>Build and leverage AI tools to automate and refine approach for business forecasting.</li> </ul> <p><em>Labor Planning & Forecasting</em></p> <ul> <li>Manage WFM planning cadence, decision forums, and global governance model. Develop ALO’s annual bottoms-up labor budget, partnering with Operations and Finance to align labor investment with business plans.</li> <li>Track and measure labor performance, identify