Director, Wholesale Beauty

Goop; Santa Monica (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Goopcation

Employee discounts

Beautiful Santa Monica workspace

Job summary

Goop in Santa Monica seeks a Director of Wholesale to lead goop Beauty's wholesale business across domestic and international accounts, manage sales operations, partner relationships, and growth while preserving brand integrity.

The role requires strategic thinking, hands-on execution, and mentoring of a team, with strong experience managing major retailers and delivering sales targets; goop offers a generous benefits package and a vibrant Santa Monica workspace.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of wholesale sales or account management experience in beauty, wellness, or consumer goods.
• 3+ years of managerial experience leading teams.
• Experience with large domestic retailers and international accounts.
• Proven track record of growing key retail partnerships and hitting targets.
• Strong understanding of retail operations, forecasting, and budgeting.
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Proficient with CRM tools, sales reporting, and analytics platforms.
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment.

Responsibilities

• Serve as primary contact for key wholesale accounts and drive growth.
• Manage communications across the team to ensure continuity.
• Drive wholesale sales through direct selling to small and boutique accounts internationally.
• Create retailer plans including launch, marketing, education, promotions, and sell-through.
• Collaborate with marketing, creative, digital, product development, and retail teams.
• Analyze sales reports, forecasts, and performance data to inform decisions.
• Oversee order management and back-office tasks.
• Mentor junior team members and supervise field staff.

Skills

Wholesale sales

Account management

Leadership & mentoring

Retail partnerships

Sales forecasting

Communication & negotiation

Tools

CRM tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

goopis a lifestyle platform dedicated to exploration, curation, and groundbreaking conversation. From its award-winning beauty and fashion lines to its expansive editorial lens, goop invites women to embrace the process of becoming, and to discover deep joy in the pursuit of pleasure, beauty, and growth in all phases of life.

Gwyneth Paltrow began goop in the fall of 2008 as a weekly newsletter. It has expanded into a beauty, fashion, and food businessthat’salso known for its products, curation, podcast, TV shows, live events, and retail stores.

ABOUT YOU

You are a dynamic and driven sales professional with deep experience and passion for the beauty. You’re comfortable managing complex retail relationships, analyzing sales data, and building effective sales strategies. You thrive in a fast-paced environment and are equally skilled at high-level business development and day-to-day operational execution. A team player at heart, you can lead, mentor, and jump in where needed to ensure smooth operations and achieve ambitious sales goals.

Culturally, results are your native language - clear goals, clear numbers, a visible line from contribution to outcome. AI is integral to how you work, raising the bar on what a small group can accomplish. Authority sits comfortably within your working style: your scope is defined, and you exercise real decision authority. Founder mode isn’t a stage you are curious about; it’s how you operate.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As the Director, Wholesale, you will oversee goop Beauty’s wholesale business across domestic and international accounts, including key wholesale partnerships. You will manage sales operations, retail partner relationships, and business development initiatives while driving growth and maintaining goop’s brand integrity. This role requires a strategic thinker who is hands-on, detail-oriented, and adept at managing both client-facing and operational responsibilities.

• Serve as a primary point of contact for key wholesale accounts, ensuring strong relationships, consistent communication, and growth-focused account management.
• Manage communications to ensure continuity in service and account oversight across the team.
• Drive wholesale sales through direct selling to small and boutique accounts, expanding goop presence in domestic and international markets.
• Ability to build retailer plans which include but are not limited to; launch plans, marketing plans, education plans, promotional plans and sell through plans.
• Work cross functionally with marketing, creative, digital, product development and retail teams to ensure brand messaging and priority cohesion.
• Analyze sales reports, forecasts, and performance data to inform business decisions and improve account management strategies. Collaborate with Merch Planning and FP&A teams to ensure efficiency between inventory and financial planning
• Handle administrative tasks, back-office duties, and order management as needed to support seamless sales operations.
• Leverage prior experience with major retailers and international partners to navigate complex account structures and drive long-term growth.
• Lead, mentor, and develop junior team members, including serving as the primary manager for specialist support
• Supervise a team of field sales representatives and brand ambassadors

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

• 8+ years of experience in wholesale sales or account management within the beauty, wellness, or consumer goods industries, minimum of 3 years of managerial experience
• Experience working with large domestic retailers, as well as international accounts
• Proven track record of managing and growing key retail partnerships, meeting sales targets, and exceeding revenue goals
• Strong understanding of retail operations, sales forecasting, and budgeting
• Excellent communication, negotiation, and presentation skills
• Comfortable with CRM tools, sales reporting, and analytics platforms
• Experience managing and mentoring team members
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel
• Ability to work independently, multitask, and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment

FAQ

• Compensation: $140,000 - $160,000 + Variable Incentive Compensation + Equity. This is a full-time, exempt role. Please note that this range represents the low and high end of the anticipated base salary range for the Los Angeles, CA based position. Goop, in good faith, reasonably expects to pay the position within this salary range. Goop provides the salary range in compliance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. The actual base salary will depend on numerous factors such as: experience, training, knowledge and skills, and if the location of the job changes.
• Benefits: Generous health benefits package, fertility benefits and paid parental leave.
• Perks: "goopcation" paid company summer break, generous goop discounts, special offers with brand partners, access to custom lifestyle resources and events, and a beautiful workspace in Santa Monica
• Work Philosophy: At goop we believe that creativity, innovation and camaraderie are essential to our business, our culture and our employee’s growth and development. For those in Los Angeles or New York we are in office a minimum of Tuesdays and Thursdays, with more days in office based on proximity. 100% remote candidates are also encouraged to apply.

goop is an Equal Opportunity Employer. goop does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. All information provided by the applicant is collected, stored and processed in accordance with the terms of our CCPA Notice for Job Candidates. Job Disclosures: No applicant disclosures related to physical requirements or ADA-related considerations are relevant for this role.

goop operates in a Hybrid Work environment. We are working in our Santa Monica office on Tuesdays & Thursdays and then remote other days of the work week.