Merchandising Assistant
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. This is a hybrid role reporting into the Support Center at Legacy West in Plano Texas.
About the Role
The Merchandising Assistant provides administrative support to the merchandising team. This role is ideal for someone who is detail-oriented, organized, takes pride in product data integrity and is passionate about retail trends in the beauty industry. This position is responsible for new item set up and promo data entry and maintenance. This position will work with various stakeholders across the organization to identify and solve issues throughout the SKU lifecycle and support promotional integrity.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for all new item setup and maintenance in systems at a SKU Level. This includes tracking and reporting on the status of their assigned products as well as communicating consistently with various cross-functional stakeholders.
- Assists Buyer in setting up promotions, seasonal programs and vendor coops. This includes tracking and reporting on status of promotion set up in system and communicating with various cross functional stakeholders.
- Assists the Buyer with the creation and maintenance of planograms and visual displays.
- Assist in proofing marketing materials that will be available online or in store.
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Requirements
- Bachelor's degree preferred
- Proficient with Excel, Word, and Outlook
- Strong organizational skills
- Excellent time management
- Previous retail experience preferred
Competencies & Attributes
- Passionate Learner – learns from different situations; asks questions to gain further understanding; receptive to feedback; applies learnings to their role; shares learnings; allocates time to learning; seeks additional responsibility to develop skills and/or support others in learning
- Flexible & Agile Adapter – responsive and positive to change; works well with little direction; looks for solutions to achieve plan/task; keeps calm while under pressure; doesn't dwell on past
- Talent Builder – shares knowledge and builds skills within the team; actively involved in talent process; considers how to include others to create sense of involvement; invest times as informal/formal coach or buddy; looks for ways to acknowledge, motivate, and value the team
- Effective Communicator – articulates well when sharing information; self-aware of impact/style to engage others; effective in adapting style where necessary; shares information timely; encourages others to express views and opinions demonstrates active listening and uses probing questions
- Team Builder – understands importance of teamwork; shares information; provides support and collaborates with a wide number of colleagues/teams and customers; humble when operating within team; understands importance of collaboration and inclusion
- Customer Focused Partner – demonstrates solid understanding of the customer; uses customer insights to help improve; seeks to improve customer journey/experience; advocate of the customer; holds self (and others where relevant) to a good standard of customer service
- Strategic Thinker – brings new, strategic thinking and ideas to leader/team for consideration; contributes to ensure effective delivery of strategic plans; provides ideas and suggestions to improve upon strategies/plans to improve business performance and/or operations
- Big Picture Thinker – understands how the department and other key departments operate; contributes to and champions change plans to improve processes; knows how decisions could impact other departments
- Results Driver – holds self and team to good standard of delivery; gives ideas on how to make improvements; effective with own/team time management; focuses on the right priority; self-motivated; adapts easily to change and demonstrates grit and determination
- Problem Solver & Decision Maker – uses the right information to make good decisions; gathers and examines relevant information; make recommendations and takes actions to solve problems; considers important/impact of decisions on department/operations and others
Working Conditions & Physical Requirements
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. Typically, the employee may sit comfortably to do the work. However, there may be some walking, standing, bending, and occasionally requires carrying, moving and setting up of computers, for example desktops, monitors, printers, and other small hardware in the testing lab.
Benefits
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!