Senior Product Development Manager Hybrid Growth Innovation

Sally Beauty Holdings, LLC; Plano (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Paid vacation and holidays

Tuition reimbursement and 401(k) with

In-house salon and merchandiseDiscount

Job summary

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Development Manager in Plano, TX, with responsibility for translating consumer insights and market trends into innovative, profitable product strategies.

This hybrid role partners with Merchandising and cross-functional teams to drive commercialization from concept to launch and to optimize portfolio health. You will mentor teams, influence senior leaders, and oversee strategic initiatives across Own Brand categories, balancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5–7 years of Product Development, Product Management, Category Management, or Consumer Packaged Goods experience; beauty industry preferred.
• Experience leading complex commercialization programs across multiple categories.
• Strong financial and business acumen with experience developing business cases, solving business issues, and translating analysis into strategic recommendations.
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams without direct authority.
• Knowledge of commercialization, sourcing, packaging, regulatory requirements, quality systems, and supplier management.
• Excellent presentation, executive communication, and negotiation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end product development lifecycle from concept through commercialization for assigned categories.
• Own the health and performance of assigned product portfolios by evaluating innovation, lifecycle performance, assortment productivity, and post-launch results.
• Develop business cases supported by financial analysis, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, and market trends.
• Lead strategic initiatives across categories, including growth gaps, margin pressure, assortment productivity, and lifecycle optimization.
• Identify business issues using financial, customer, competitive, and category data, and develop actionable recommendations to improve growth, profitability, and portfolio health.
• Partner with Merchandising to recommend new product introductions, upgrades, reformulations, packaging enhancements, and SKU optimization.
• Build and maintain a multi-season innovation pipeline aligned with category objectives.
• Develop the assigned business through portfolio strategy, innovation pipeline planning, SKU optimization, supplier capability development, and commercial performance management.
• Translate customer insights, supplier capabilities, emerging technologies, and business performance into actionable product recommendations.
• Lead cross-functional commercialization teams across Merchandising, Marketing, Creative, Regulatory, Sourcing and Planning.
• Drive alignment across partners while balancing customer experience, profitability, operational feasibility, timing, and compliance.
• Influence senior leaders and cross-functional partners to align on business priorities, investment choices, product strategies, and execution plans.
• Monitor launch success, sales performance, margin improvement, cost optimization, speed-to-market, and commercialization milestones.
• Proactive Management of Projects and Portfolio. Identify project, category or brand risks early and implement mitigation plans.
• Develop strategic supplier partnerships that improve innovation, quality, speed-to-market, and cost competitiveness.
• Support supplier negotiations through value engineering and cost optimization initiatives where relevant.
• Champion continuous improvement by simplifying processes and standardizing best practices.
• Leverage dashboards, analytics, and KPIs to support business decisions and executive recommendations.
• Present product strategies, business cases, innovation concepts, and portfolio recommendations to senior leadership.
• Mentor Product Development Managers, Assistant Managers, and cross-functional partners through coaching and knowledge sharing.
• Serve as the product development subject matter expert while fostering accountability, collaboration, and innovation.

Skills

Strategic Thinking

Commercial Acumen

Portfolio Management

Innovation Leadership

Financial Analysis

Cross-Functional Leadership

Executive Presence

Problem Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. is seeking a Senior Product Development Manager in Plano, TX, with responsibility for translating consumer insights and market trends into innovative, profitable product strategies.

This hybrid role partners with Merchandising and cross-functional teams to drive commercialization from concept to launch and to optimize portfolio health. You will mentor teams, influence senior leaders, and oversee strategic initiatives across Own Brand categories, balancing