Merchandising Assistant

About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.

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.

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 setup 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.

Merchandising Assistant – Non‑Exempt

• Responsible for all new item setup and maintenance in systems at a SKU level. This includes tracking and reporting on the status of assigned products as well as communicating consistently with various cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Assists Buyer in setting up promotions, seasonal programs and vendor co‑ops. 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.
• Provides additional support on various merchandising projects as needed.

• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• Proficient with Excel, Word, and Outlook
• Strong organizational skills
• Excellent time management
• Previous retail experience preferred

• Passionate Learner – learns from different situations; asks questions to gain further understanding; receptive to feedback; applies leanings 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…