Vice President Sally Merchandising at Sally Beauty Holdings, LLC

Vice President Sally Merchandising

At SBH, our purpose is to inspire a more colorful, confident, and welcoming world. We are the leader in professional hair color, selling and distributing professional beauty supplies across 11 countries through our Sally Beauty and Beauty Systems Group businesses. Sally Beauty offers products for hair color, hair care, nails, and skin care to retail customers looking for salon quality products at a value price. Beauty Systems Group, branded as Cosmo Prof or Armstrong McCall stores, along with its direct sales consultants, sell professionally branded products intended for use and resale by salons to retail consumers.

Responsibilities

• Provides visionary leadership and strategic insight to develop systematic merchandising processes and implement technology enhancements, driving performance across all product categories. Facilitates collaboration to spearhead innovation, positively impacting business results.
• Responsible for overall initiatives in all category groups that maximize sales and margin, while leveraging the inventory assets of the company.
• Facilitate the communication channels within merchandising, marketing, CRM, e-commerce, supply chain, planning and allocation, finance, and store operations supporting merchandising strategic initiatives. 
• Builds key relationships with cross-functional leaders and vendor community, leading collaboration and thought sharing, to drive results.
• Instill forward thinking behavior, anticipate needs and events and their implication on the business; gather information and work towards a solution.   Strong financial acumen to coach the team to optimize databased insights to drive category performance. 
• Develops team and builds strong bench for critical roles.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Merchandising or related field, MBA a plus
• Extensive Merchandising experience at a leadership in category management, beauty experience preferred
• Transformative experience and driver of process improvement
• Retail or consumer goods industry experience preferred
• Strong knowledge of computer hardware, operating systems (Windows, macOS, etc.), software applications, networking, and security protocols

Competencies & Attributes

• Strong communication skills

• Strategic and creative thinker

• Trend identification

• Financial acumen

• Analytical skills

• Strong negation ability

• Ability to lead change

• Management and team leadership experience

This will be a hybrid role required to be onsite at the corporate office on specified days. The work environment generally involves everyday risks or discomforts which require normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices, meeting and training rooms, retail stores, and residences or commercial vehicles, e.g., use of safe work practices with office equipment, avoidance of trips and falls, observance of fire regulations and traffic signals, etc. The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated.

The work is sedentary; however, occasional travel to company locations may be required. Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking; standing; bending; carrying of light items such as papers, files, books, small parts; using a keyboard, driving an automobile, etc. No special physical demands are required to perform the work.

We offer a competitive salary and outstanding benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, paid vacation and sick days, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement and 401(k) with company match. In addition, associates of SBH may take advantage of our in-house salon with complementary services and a varied selection of food options at our corporate campus. Also, featured at our corporate campus, is both a Sally Beauty and CosmoProf Professional onsite store, where associates enjoy a great merchandise discount!

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, or disability.

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