ASSISTANT BUYER

CosmoProf Beauty; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Life Insurance

Paid vacation and sick days

Paid holidays

Tuition reimbursement

401(k) with company match

Merchandise discount

Job summary

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. in Plano, TX is seeking a Buyer support professional in a hybrid role. You will assist with day-to-day management of business processes to maximize sales and gross margin while managing inventory objectives for assigned brands.

You will develop strategic objectives for long-term growth, partner with vendors on pricing, promotions, and assortment, and collaborate with marketing, operations, and planning teams to achieve optimal results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience.
• 2-4 years purchasing or merchandising experience in related field.
• Beauty experience a plus.
• JDA a plus.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills.
• Ability to multi task with accuracy.
• Leadership qualities and work ethics that dictate standards.
• Ability to communicate with and influence all levels of staff.
• Strong negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Supports the Buyer with the assortment strategy for the assigned category.
• Works with vendor and brand partners to maximize first‑to‑market products and pricing strategy.
• Partners with pricing and promotions to optimize sales and margin; collaborates with marketing and operations.
• Assists with inventory levels and presentation to leadership.
• Analyzes data to identify trends and develop exit strategies for slow-moving items.
• Supports vendor negotiations to reduce costs and improve terms.
• Attends vendor meetings to identify opportunities through new products and competitive strategies.

Skills

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Negotiation skills

Leadership qualities

Communication with staff

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

JDA

Job description

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.

Job Description

This position is hybrid reporting into the support center at Legacy West in Plano Texas.

About The Role

Responsible for supporting the Buyer with the day to day management and development of business processes to maximize sales and gross margin objectives, while managing inventory objectives for specific brands. Develops strategic objectives to ensure long-term sustained growth.

Responsibilities

• Supports the Buyer with the assortment strategy for the assigned category. Works collaboratively with vendor and brand partners to maximize first‑to‑market approach of on‑trend products, promotional and pricing strategy for the assigned category placement.
• Partners with pricing and promotional team to ensure optimal performance against sales and margin. Works collaboratively with the marketing and operations team to ensure a ‘customer first’ approach to the product strategy. Works collaboratively with the planning and allocation team to ensure ideal inventory levels. Assists with presentation preparation to all levels of leadership.
• Analyzes and draws conclusions from multiple resources to provide a concise, logical merchandising focus. Identifies and promotes new products and trends in a timely manner to maximize sales potential. Devises profitable exit strategies, including vendor participation, of slow‑selling items, discontinued items, package changes and poor promotional sell‑through.
• Supports vendor partnerships and negotiations to reduce costs, increase margin, special terms, discounts, allowances and payment dating in all appropriate opportunities.
• Develops category expertise through competitive analysis and attends vendor meetings and trade‑show presentations to identify sales opportunities through new products, trends and competitive strategies.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and/or equivalent experience
• 2‑4 years purchasing or merchandising experience in related field. Category management experience in related field preferred. Consumer goods and services preferred
• Proven track record of growing categories or leading category growth
• Beauty experience a plus
• JDA a plus
• Strong analytical and organizational skills combined with high creative potential
• Ability to multi task with accuracy
• Leadership qualities and work ethics that dictate the standards for the department
• Ability to communicate with and influence all levels of staff
• Strong negotiation skills

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

Location: Hybrid | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at the Sally Beauty Support Center, Legacy West (Plano, TX)

The typical working environment is in the support center office, and the work is sedentary. Typically, the associate may sit comfortably to do the job. However, some tasks and activities may be walking, standing, bending, carrying light items such as papers, files, books, and small parts, driving an automobile to a store location, etc. These activities are not frequent and do not require significant physical demands to perform the work.

While involving everyday risks or discomforts, the work environment is designed with standard safety precautions. These precautions, typical of offices, meeting and training rooms, retail stores, residences, or commercial vehicles, include using safe work practices with office equipment, avoiding trips and falls, observing fire regulations and traffic signals, etc. The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated, ensuring the safety and comfort of our associates.

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!