MERCHANDISE FINANCIAL PLANNING ASSISTANT
About The Position
The Merchandise Financial Planning Assistant is responsible for supporting the Merchandise Finance Planner quantitative and financial analyses for their categories. Through their partnership with the Merchant team and Merchandise Finance team, those analyses will be utilized to increase productivity and profitability of the business in addition to helping support change management throughout the company. This is a hybrid role reporting into our Support Center at Legacy West in Plano Texas 3 days a week. “At Sally Beauty Holdings, we find beauty in diversity. Our inclusivity and self-expression are what fuel our innovation and growth. You are welcome here, and you can thrive here. We find beauty in YOU. Join us.”
Requirements
- Experience in business, retail or consumer products experience a plus, but previous experience in an analytical role is required.
- Well-developed retail math & analytical skillset.
- Methodical and logical approach to problem solving.
- Clear, concise communication style.
- Detail oriented.
- Ability to support a cross-functional project and cross-functional collaboration.
- Ability to develop strong relationships with key partners.
- Advanced Excel skills (pivot tables, VLOOKUP).
Nice To Haves
- Prior experience building category strategies, business plans, and/or business cases through data analysis.
- Needs to be a self-starter to be able to develop policies and programs to meet new business objectives.
- Agile learner that is looking to progress within the SBH organization.
- Previous experience analyzing a retail P&L a strong plus.
Responsibilities
- Tracking, reporting, and analyzing sales, margin and inventory trends for specific categories assigned by the Sr. Merchandise Planner.
- Creating reporting and analysis by pulling, interpreting and modeling data from multiple sources (data warehouse, category reporting, promotional performance, customer analytics, etc.) to uncover growth opportunities.
- Building and tracking daily sales for all BSG categories.
- Analytical support for annual category forecasting process in partnership with partners across Merchandise Finance and Merchandising.
- Effective communication of analyses & recommendations to the appropriate Merchant partner and Merchandise Finance team.
- Drive impact by uncovering opportunities for sales and margin growth through detailed analytics on customer insights, market and sales data.
- Identify unique category and brand opportunities for growth through the intersection of customer needs, domestic and international benchmarks and SBH strategy.
- Ad hoc analytical requests from manager (Sr. Merchandise Planner).
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- life Insurance
- paid vacation and sick days
- paid holidays
- tuition reimbursement
- 401(k) with company match
- in house salon with complementary services
- varied selection of food options at our corporate campus
- Sally Beauty and CosmoProf Professional onsite store, where associates enjoy a great merchandise discount!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
