How a Head of eCommerce uses ProfitPeak

3 min. readlast update: 08.28.2025

A Head of eCommerce sits right between data, strategy, and execution, so no doubt, your day-to-day is very data-driven. ProfitPeak was designed to make data-driven decision making simple. Our dashboards, along with Sherpa AI will extract insights and help you to take confident action with AI recommendations in real time.


📊 Sales & Profit Performance on The Peak

  • The Peak will assist you in tracking daily sales, AOV, profit and comparing against targets.

  • Monitoring gross vs. net sales, to understand the impact of returns, discounts and margins.

  • Keeping an eye on profitability by channel.

  • Sherpa AI can help you understand and diagnose why any key metrics are either positive or negative.

👥 Customer & Behaviour Data on the Customer Lifetime Value and Retention Analytics 

  • Analysing repeat purchase rates and retention cohort.

  • Checking customer acquisition cost (CAC) vs. lifetime value (LTV).

  • What are the brand, category, collection or products that drive LTV for the lowest CAC.
  • What are the marketing channels that drive the highest LTV for the lowest CAC
  • Know if customers bought this product, what are they likely to come back to buy next
  • Where you have opportunities to increase retention by stopping drop off between orders

📈 Marketing & Traffic Insights on the Attribution Vertex 

  • Reading channel performance reports (Google Ads, Meta, TikTok, email,  social, affiliates).

  • Tracking ROAS/PROAS and monitoring budget pacing.

  • Spotting trends in source traffic (organic vs. paid, new vs. returning visitors).

  • Reviewing email/SMS campaign performance (open rates, click-through, revenue contribution).

  • Diagnosing creative fatigue and which ads are showing signs of diminishing returns.
  • Finding the channels, campaigns, ads and ad sets really driving new customer acquisiton
  • Understanding product demand and balancing this with margins and SOH whether it be from paid, CRM or organic channels. 

📦 Trading & Merchandising Data on the Product Intelligence 

  • Looking at sell-through rates by product/collection.

  • Tracking inventory velocity (what’s moving fast, what’s ageing).

  • Monitoring markdown performance and margin impacts.

  • Ensuring availability of hero SKUs that drive the bulk of revenue and profit.

  • Identifying underperforming products fast so that you can convert into cash sooner with less margin impact.
  • Clearly understand you new customer acquisition products and which products your returning customers are buying.
  • Understand size curve demand on a product/collection/category basis.

🧠 Strategic & Leadership Focus from your Sherpa AI Monday Emails 

  • Using data to adjust forecasts and trading plans.

  • Feeding insights into marketing, product and finance teams.

  • Identifying new growth opportunities (markets, products, campaigns).

  • Ensuring reporting is clear, visual, and consistent for leadership.

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