Sr Director Merchandising
for each section present. Use - for lists,
for prose. No job title heading, no Job ID. Remove boilerplate. Keep all substantive info.
We need to parse the job description.
Sections: About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (maybe "About the role"? Actually the description starts with "Job Description About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc." That's about the company. Could be "About the role"? The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content.
We have: "About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc." -> could be "About the role"? But it's about company. Might be better as "About the role"? However they said use those headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should use those exact headings if we have content. If not, we shouldn't create heading.
We have content about company purpose, etc. That could go under "About the role"? Not exactly. But maybe we treat as "About the role" describing the role and company. The instruction: "use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It suggests those are examples; we can use those headings if appropriate. We need to include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. So we need to decide which sections we have content for.
We have:
- About the role? Could include description of role purpose, essential function, hybrid role location. That seems like role overview. So we can have "About the role" heading.
- Responsibilities: The "Primary Duties" section lists many duties. That fits Responsibilities.
- Requirements: Could be "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities" plus maybe "Competencies And Attributes". Those are qualifications/skills. Could split into Requirements (education, experience) and Qualifications/Skills.
- Benefits: There's a Benefits section.
- Pay: Not mentioned (no salary). So we should NOT include Pay.
- Schedule: Not mentioned (hybrid role but not schedule specifics). Could mention hybrid role location but not schedule. Probably not include Schedule.
- Qualifications: Could be separate from Requirements. But we can combine.
We need to preserve all substantive info. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits.
We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. No job title given.
We need to drop boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's extract content.
First, "About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc." paragraph: 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.
Then "Essential Function": Provides senior leadership for a progressively broad merchandising scope, leading teams of merchants responsible for building customer-focused, trend-right assortments that drive sales, margin, inventory productivity, and category growth across channels. Sets strategic direction across buying, product selection, pricing, promotions, vendor partnerships, and lifecycle management while advancing process improvement, cross-functional alignment, and special projects that strengthen execution, simplify ways of working, and deliver a compelling Sally customer experience. This position is a hybrid role reporting to our support center at Legacy West in Plano Texas.
We can combine that into About the role.
Then "Primary Duties" with subheadings: Team Leadership & Merchant Development, Assortment & Category Strategy, Cross-Functional Partnership & Execution, Business Ownership & Performance Management, Trend, Innovation & Market Leadership, Vendor & Brand Partnership, Financial Planning & Department Support.
Each has sentences. We need to turn into list items under Responsibilities.
We should preserve all details.
Then "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities": bullet list? It's sentences separated by periods. We'll make list.
Then "Competencies And Attributes": also list.
Then "Working Conditions & Physical Requirements": paragraph.
Then "Benefits": paragraph with list.
We need to decide sections.
Possible sections:
About the role
(contains company overview + essential function + hybrid location)
Responsibilities
(list of duties)
Requirements
(education + experience)
Qualifications
(maybe knowledge, skills, abilities)
Skills
(maybe competencies)
But we might combine knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies into Skills section.
But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we can have:
- About the role
- Responsibilities
- Qualifications (includes education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies)
- Benefits
- Working Conditions (maybe not a standard heading; but we could omit if not in list. The instruction only gave examples; we could add other headings if needed? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those examples. Safer to stick to those. Working Conditions not in list; maybe we can omit or incorporate into About the role? But it's substantive. Could we put under "About the role"? Not ideal. Could we create a "Working Conditions" heading? The instruction didn't forbid but said use those as examples. Might be okay to add other headings if needed. However they said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That implies we should use those headings for sections; but we could also use other headings if needed? The safer approach: we can omit Working Conditions if not matching those headings. But we must preserve ALL substantive information. If we omit, we lose info. So we need to include it somewhere. Could we incorporate into "About the role" as a paragraph? That would preserve it. Yes, we can add a paragraph about working conditions under About the role.
Similarly, we could incorporate "Competencies And Attributes" into Skills or Qualifications.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits.
We need to ensure we don't create thin sections with filler.
Let's craft.
About the role: combine company overview, essential function, hybrid location, working conditions.
Responsibilities: list each duty bullet.
Qualifications: include education/experience preferences, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies.
Benefits: list.
We must not include Pay or Schedule.
Now format.
Use About the role
then
... maybe multiple paragraphs? Could be one paragraph with sentences.
Better to split into
for prose,
- for lists.
For About the role, we have prose: company overview, essential function, hybrid location, working conditions. Could be multiple
elements.
Let's write:
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.
Provides senior leadership for a progressively broad merchandising scope, leading teams of merchants responsible for building customer-focused, trend-right assortments that drive sales, margin, inventory productivity, and category growth across channels. Sets strategic direction across buying, product selection, pricing, promotions, vendor partnerships, and lifecycle management while advancing process improvement, cross-functional alignment, and special projects that strengthen execution, simplify ways of working, and deliver a compelling Sally customer experience. This position is a hybrid role reporting to our support center at Legacy West in Plano Texas.
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.
Now Responsibilities: we need to list each duty.
We have subheadings but we can just list each duty as a - with the full sentence(s). Let's extract each duty paragraph.
1. Team Leadership & Merchant Development: Provide senior leadership to merchant teams, setting clear direction across category strategies, business priorities, and financial goals. Develop merchant leaders, strengthen team capability, remove barriers, and build a high-performing culture focused on accountability, collaboration, customer relevance, and continuous improvement.
2. Assortment & Category Strategy: Set the strategic direction for customer-focused assortment and category plans across assigned areas of responsibility. Guide merchant teams in translating customer needs, market trends, competitive insights, financial targets, and growth opportunities into relevant, differentiated assortments that support sales, margin, inventory productivity, and a consistent Sally experience across store and digital channels.
3. Cross-Functional Partnership & Execution: Lead cross-functional alignment with Planning & Allocation, Marketing, Ecommerce, Store Operations, Merch Finance, Product Development, Visual Merchandising, and vendor partners to ensure category strategies are executed with clarity, speed, and accountability. Influence priorities, resolve barriers, manage risks, and support process improvements and special projects that strengthen launch execution, promotional planning, lifecycle management, and the overall Sally customer experience.
4. Business Ownership & Performance Management: Provide senior-level ownership of business performance across assigned categories, including sales, margin, inventory health, turns, open-to-buy, and SKU productivity. Use data, customer insights, and financial performance to guide merchant teams, identify risks and opportunities, shape corrective actions, and ensure category strategies deliver against business goals.
5. Trend, Innovation & Market Leadership: Lead merchant teams in identifying emerging trends, customer needs, assortment white space, and new growth opportunities across assigned businesses. Translate market, vendor, competitive, and performance insights into strategic recommendations, innovation ideas, and special projects that strengthen Sally’s assortment relevance and customer experience.
6. Vendor & Brand Partnership: Provide senior guidance on vendor and brand partnerships to support innovation, exclusivity, cost and margin improvement, supply continuity, education, promotional support, and long-term category growth. Ensure merchant teams build productive partnerships that align with Sally’s customer, financial, and brand priorities.
7. Financial Planning & Department Support: Lead merchant partnership with Merch Finance and Planning & Allocation to support open-to-buy, receipt planning, budgeting, forecasting, and key financial deliverables. Use financial insights to guide smart buying decisions, improve planning discipline, support process improvements, and enable strong category execution.
We'll put each as
- .
Now Qualifications: combine education/experience preferences, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies.
Let's extract:
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain, or
for prose. No job title heading, no Job ID. Remove boilerplate. Keep all substantive info. We need to parse the job description. Sections: About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (maybe "About the role"? Actually the description starts with "Job Description About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc." That's about the company. Could be "About the role"? The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to map content. We have: "About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc." -> could be "About the role"? But it's about company. Might be better as "About the role"? However they said use those headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). So we should use those exact headings if we have content. If not, we shouldn't create heading. We have content about company purpose, etc. That could go under "About the role"? Not exactly. But maybe we treat as "About the role" describing the role and company. The instruction: "use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It suggests those are examples; we can use those headings if appropriate. We need to include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it. So we need to decide which sections we have content for.
We have:
- About the role? Could include description of role purpose, essential function, hybrid role location. That seems like role overview. So we can have "About the role" heading.
- Responsibilities: The "Primary Duties" section lists many duties. That fits Responsibilities.
- Requirements: Could be "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities" plus maybe "Competencies And Attributes". Those are qualifications/skills. Could split into Requirements (education, experience) and Qualifications/Skills.
- Benefits: There's a Benefits section.
- Pay: Not mentioned (no salary). So we should NOT include Pay.
- Schedule: Not mentioned (hybrid role but not schedule specifics). Could mention hybrid role location but not schedule. Probably not include Schedule.
- Qualifications: Could be separate from Requirements. But we can combine.
We need to preserve all substantive info. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits.
We need to avoid repeating job title as heading. No job title given.
We need to drop boilerplate like cookie/navigation/legal/EEO etc. Not present.
We need to output only HTML fragment.
Let's extract content.
First, "About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc." paragraph: 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.
Then "Essential Function": Provides senior leadership for a progressively broad merchandising scope, leading teams of merchants responsible for building customer-focused, trend-right assortments that drive sales, margin, inventory productivity, and category growth across channels. Sets strategic direction across buying, product selection, pricing, promotions, vendor partnerships, and lifecycle management while advancing process improvement, cross-functional alignment, and special projects that strengthen execution, simplify ways of working, and deliver a compelling Sally customer experience. This position is a hybrid role reporting to our support center at Legacy West in Plano Texas.
We can combine that into About the role.
Then "Primary Duties" with subheadings: Team Leadership & Merchant Development, Assortment & Category Strategy, Cross-Functional Partnership & Execution, Business Ownership & Performance Management, Trend, Innovation & Market Leadership, Vendor & Brand Partnership, Financial Planning & Department Support.
Each has sentences. We need to turn into list items under Responsibilities.
We should preserve all details.
Then "Knowledge, Skills And Abilities": bullet list? It's sentences separated by periods. We'll make list.
Then "Competencies And Attributes": also list.
Then "Working Conditions & Physical Requirements": paragraph.
Then "Benefits": paragraph with list.
We need to decide sections.
Possible sections:
About the role
(contains company overview + essential function + hybrid location)
Responsibilities
(list of duties)
Requirements
(education + experience)
Qualifications
(maybe knowledge, skills, abilities)
Skills
(maybe competencies)
But we might combine knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies into Skills section.
But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we can have:
- About the role
- Responsibilities
- Qualifications (includes education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies)
- Benefits
- Working Conditions (maybe not a standard heading; but we could omit if not in list. The instruction only gave examples; we could add other headings if needed? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those examples. Safer to stick to those. Working Conditions not in list; maybe we can omit or incorporate into About the role? But it's substantive. Could we put under "About the role"? Not ideal. Could we create a "Working Conditions" heading? The instruction didn't forbid but said use those as examples. Might be okay to add other headings if needed. However they said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That implies we should use those headings for sections; but we could also use other headings if needed? The safer approach: we can omit Working Conditions if not matching those headings. But we must preserve ALL substantive information. If we omit, we lose info. So we need to include it somewhere. Could we incorporate into "About the role" as a paragraph? That would preserve it. Yes, we can add a paragraph about working conditions under About the role.
Similarly, we could incorporate "Competencies And Attributes" into Skills or Qualifications.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits.
We need to ensure we don't create thin sections with filler.
Let's craft.
About the role: combine company overview, essential function, hybrid location, working conditions.
Responsibilities: list each duty bullet.
Qualifications: include education/experience preferences, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies.
Benefits: list.
We must not include Pay or Schedule.
Now format.
Use About the role
then
... maybe multiple paragraphs? Could be one paragraph with sentences.
Better to split into
for prose,
- for lists.
For About the role, we have prose: company overview, essential function, hybrid location, working conditions. Could be multiple
elements.
Let's write:
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.
Provides senior leadership for a progressively broad merchandising scope, leading teams of merchants responsible for building customer-focused, trend-right assortments that drive sales, margin, inventory productivity, and category growth across channels. Sets strategic direction across buying, product selection, pricing, promotions, vendor partnerships, and lifecycle management while advancing process improvement, cross-functional alignment, and special projects that strengthen execution, simplify ways of working, and deliver a compelling Sally customer experience. This position is a hybrid role reporting to our support center at Legacy West in Plano Texas.
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.
Now Responsibilities: we need to list each duty.
We have subheadings but we can just list each duty as a - with the full sentence(s). Let's extract each duty paragraph.
1. Team Leadership & Merchant Development: Provide senior leadership to merchant teams, setting clear direction across category strategies, business priorities, and financial goals. Develop merchant leaders, strengthen team capability, remove barriers, and build a high-performing culture focused on accountability, collaboration, customer relevance, and continuous improvement.
2. Assortment & Category Strategy: Set the strategic direction for customer-focused assortment and category plans across assigned areas of responsibility. Guide merchant teams in translating customer needs, market trends, competitive insights, financial targets, and growth opportunities into relevant, differentiated assortments that support sales, margin, inventory productivity, and a consistent Sally experience across store and digital channels.
3. Cross-Functional Partnership & Execution: Lead cross-functional alignment with Planning & Allocation, Marketing, Ecommerce, Store Operations, Merch Finance, Product Development, Visual Merchandising, and vendor partners to ensure category strategies are executed with clarity, speed, and accountability. Influence priorities, resolve barriers, manage risks, and support process improvements and special projects that strengthen launch execution, promotional planning, lifecycle management, and the overall Sally customer experience.
4. Business Ownership & Performance Management: Provide senior-level ownership of business performance across assigned categories, including sales, margin, inventory health, turns, open-to-buy, and SKU productivity. Use data, customer insights, and financial performance to guide merchant teams, identify risks and opportunities, shape corrective actions, and ensure category strategies deliver against business goals.
5. Trend, Innovation & Market Leadership: Lead merchant teams in identifying emerging trends, customer needs, assortment white space, and new growth opportunities across assigned businesses. Translate market, vendor, competitive, and performance insights into strategic recommendations, innovation ideas, and special projects that strengthen Sally’s assortment relevance and customer experience.
6. Vendor & Brand Partnership: Provide senior guidance on vendor and brand partnerships to support innovation, exclusivity, cost and margin improvement, supply continuity, education, promotional support, and long-term category growth. Ensure merchant teams build productive partnerships that align with Sally’s customer, financial, and brand priorities.
7. Financial Planning & Department Support: Lead merchant partnership with Merch Finance and Planning & Allocation to support open-to-buy, receipt planning, budgeting, forecasting, and key financial deliverables. Use financial insights to guide smart buying decisions, improve planning discipline, support process improvements, and enable strong category execution.
We'll put each as
- .
Now Qualifications: combine education/experience preferences, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies.
Let's extract:
Knowledge, Skills And Abilities:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain, or
About the role
(contains company overview + essential function + hybrid location)Responsibilities
(list of duties)Requirements
(education + experience)Qualifications
(maybe knowledge, skills, abilities)Skills
(maybe competencies) But we might combine knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies into Skills section. But we need to avoid thin sections. Perhaps we can have: - About the role - Responsibilities - Qualifications (includes education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies) - Benefits - Working Conditions (maybe not a standard heading; but we could omit if not in list. The instruction only gave examples; we could add other headings if needed? It says use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but suggests those examples. Safer to stick to those. Working Conditions not in list; maybe we can omit or incorporate into About the role? But it's substantive. Could we put under "About the role"? Not ideal. Could we create a "Working Conditions" heading? The instruction didn't forbid but said use those as examples. Might be okay to add other headings if needed. However they said "use for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." That implies we should use those headings for sections; but we could also use other headings if needed? The safer approach: we can omit Working Conditions if not matching those headings. But we must preserve ALL substantive information. If we omit, we lose info. So we need to include it somewhere. Could we incorporate into "About the role" as a paragraph? That would preserve it. Yes, we can add a paragraph about working conditions under About the role.
Similarly, we could incorporate "Competencies And Attributes" into Skills or Qualifications.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits.
We need to ensure we don't create thin sections with filler.
Let's craft.
About the role: combine company overview, essential function, hybrid location, working conditions.
Responsibilities: list each duty bullet.
Qualifications: include education/experience preferences, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies.
Benefits: list.
We must not include Pay or Schedule.
Now format.
Use About the role
then
About the role
then... maybe multiple paragraphs? Could be one paragraph with sentences. Better to split into
for prose,
- for lists.
For About the role, we have prose: company overview, essential function, hybrid location, working conditions. Could be multiple
elements. Let's write:
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.
Provides senior leadership for a progressively broad merchandising scope, leading teams of merchants responsible for building customer-focused, trend-right assortments that drive sales, margin, inventory productivity, and category growth across channels. Sets strategic direction across buying, product selection, pricing, promotions, vendor partnerships, and lifecycle management while advancing process improvement, cross-functional alignment, and special projects that strengthen execution, simplify ways of working, and deliver a compelling Sally customer experience. This position is a hybrid role reporting to our support center at Legacy West in Plano Texas.
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.
Now Responsibilities: we need to list each duty. We have subheadings but we can just list each duty as a - with the full sentence(s). Let's extract each duty paragraph. 1. Team Leadership & Merchant Development: Provide senior leadership to merchant teams, setting clear direction across category strategies, business priorities, and financial goals. Develop merchant leaders, strengthen team capability, remove barriers, and build a high-performing culture focused on accountability, collaboration, customer relevance, and continuous improvement. 2. Assortment & Category Strategy: Set the strategic direction for customer-focused assortment and category plans across assigned areas of responsibility. Guide merchant teams in translating customer needs, market trends, competitive insights, financial targets, and growth opportunities into relevant, differentiated assortments that support sales, margin, inventory productivity, and a consistent Sally experience across store and digital channels. 3. Cross-Functional Partnership & Execution: Lead cross-functional alignment with Planning & Allocation, Marketing, Ecommerce, Store Operations, Merch Finance, Product Development, Visual Merchandising, and vendor partners to ensure category strategies are executed with clarity, speed, and accountability. Influence priorities, resolve barriers, manage risks, and support process improvements and special projects that strengthen launch execution, promotional planning, lifecycle management, and the overall Sally customer experience. 4. Business Ownership & Performance Management: Provide senior-level ownership of business performance across assigned categories, including sales, margin, inventory health, turns, open-to-buy, and SKU productivity. Use data, customer insights, and financial performance to guide merchant teams, identify risks and opportunities, shape corrective actions, and ensure category strategies deliver against business goals. 5. Trend, Innovation & Market Leadership: Lead merchant teams in identifying emerging trends, customer needs, assortment white space, and new growth opportunities across assigned businesses. Translate market, vendor, competitive, and performance insights into strategic recommendations, innovation ideas, and special projects that strengthen Sally’s assortment relevance and customer experience. 6. Vendor & Brand Partnership: Provide senior guidance on vendor and brand partnerships to support innovation, exclusivity, cost and margin improvement, supply continuity, education, promotional support, and long-term category growth. Ensure merchant teams build productive partnerships that align with Sally’s customer, financial, and brand priorities. 7. Financial Planning & Department Support: Lead merchant partnership with Merch Finance and Planning & Allocation to support open-to-buy, receipt planning, budgeting, forecasting, and key financial deliverables. Use financial insights to guide smart buying decisions, improve planning discipline, support process improvements, and enable strong category execution. We'll put each as
- . Now Qualifications: combine education/experience preferences, knowledge, skills, abilities, competencies. Let's extract: Knowledge, Skills And Abilities: - Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising, Marketing, Supply Chain, or