Merchandising Intern - Summer 2024

Wednesday, March 20, 2024


Company: Sally Beauty Corporate
Location: Denton, TX (Hybrid)
Position: Internship
Department: Merchandising and Digital Retailing

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Essential Function  
As a team member of SBH’s strategic growth opportunity, this role will support the growth of Happy Beauty Co. This internship will provide exposure to multi-facets of retail, inclusive of the following:  marketing, pricing, visual impact, product management/development, sourcing, and competitive assessment.   This position will work directly with cross-functional teams and merchants to execute marketing and visual impacts, building content, store signage while supporting analysis for go forward strategies.          
   

Marketing impacts, Content Creation

  • Develop content to deliver minimum 10 videos for TikTok per week.
  • Strategize on pause points, stories to share, and messaging to spread brand awareness. 
  • Complete visual impacts, orchestration of monthly pivots, and execution in store with marketing manager and store operations partner.
  • Analyze and react to performance from marketing and promotion to be fresh and on trend.
  • Support future strategy and development for every 6-week conversions.
 

Category Management

  • Assess category sales results.  Define opportunities, growth vendors, trends, and big ideas.
  • Evaluate visual big moments/items to drive repeat sales, and explosive impacts.                 
  • Collaborate with merchant team to build/alter business plans to achieve sales goals.        
  • Take-action with merchant support on product challenges: poor delivery and/or performance.
  • Support future strategy and development for owned brand opportunities.
 

Product Merchandising, Vendor Relations & Stores Organization                            

  • Forge & Build partnership to ensure open dialogs for results driven opportunities.
  • Communicate weekly performance and discuss actions to be taken for growth.                   
  • Support building of presentation standards, fixture capacity, and POG's with in/out direction
  • Weekly visit store to visualize execution and determine workload efforts.
  • Take learnings to create best practices with collaborators & vendor support.
  • Support edits of training materials for field and stores education (category/trend/newness).
 

Competitive Superiority/Special Project

  • Monthly competitive shop
  • Convert observations into opportunities for business/organization.
  • Details of presentation to leadership TBD
 
   
   
   
Competencies / Attributes  
  • Strong analytical and organizational skills combined with high creative potential.
  • Curious self-starter who multi-tasks with accuracy.
  • Comfortable with fast-paced environment, enjoys pushing boundaries.
  • Clear written and verbal communication skills.
  • Professional work ethics that mirror the standards for the department.