Job Title Manager, Visual Merchandising (Biolage)

Division: Professional Products Division

Location: Hudson Yards, NY

Reports To: Senior Vice President, Biolage

Who We Are: 

For more than a century, L’Oréal has devoted its energy, innovation, and scientific excellence solely to one business: Beauty. Our goal is to offer each and every person around the world the best of beauty in terms of quality, efficacy, safety, sincerity and responsibility to satisfy all beauty needs and desires in their infinite diversity. 

At L’Oréal Professional Products, our mission is to support hairdressers and develop the hair industry sustainably, and lead the digital transformation of our industry with a customer-centric approach. Our brands portfolio includes L’Oréal Professionnel, Kerastase, Redken, Biolage, Matrix and Pureology.

We are looking for a passionate Visual Merchandising Manager who excels at brand storytelling and out of the box retail thinking join our Biolage team.  Our Merchandising Manager will translate Biolage big bets into Store animations via merchandising, impactful retail animations and planograms.  This position adds value to marketing and sales by supporting the physical articulation of the Biolage brand driving traffic and sales within pro distribution and consumer outlets.  As a result, the candidate should be able to increase retail product sales through successful campaigns & merchandising strategies.  This position requires strong creative skills, communication skills and an entrepreneurial mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• In partnership with Marketing team, responsible for the development, implementation, and visual presentation of the Biolage brand within store environments (Ulta, JCP as well as SalonCentric and BSG professional stores) to support brand acceleration.
• Collaborates with Marketing to understand and brief in creative updates for Store fixtures, off shelf placements, and shelf strips.  Briefs Creative team on in-store elements and shepherds projects from brief through project art release.
• Leads Monthly SalonCentric & BSG Store merchandising process, including Pitch Process, Fuel and CAPEX Budget Management, Stores Customer Meetings, and Monthly Merch Communications.  
• Responsible for updates to permanent fixtures at Ulta, SalonCentric and BSG, including permanent endcaps.  This includes working with vendors to source permanent fixtures on time and on budget.
• In partnership with Marketing and Sales Teams monitor product assortments, planogram and visual merchandising.  
• Leads planogram updates and initiates changes within each account as needed.  Responsible for making recommendations on POG updates as well as execution of any shelf resets.
• Work with business planning teams to understand POG productivity and ROI on placements.  Manage account specific recommendations.  
• Oversee the cross-functional communication and timelines between marketing, sales, sales administration, creative, and promotional purchasing.
• Ensures on-time and on budget delivery of creative assets

What We Are Looking For:

Required Qualifications:

• 4-year college degree
• Visual merchandising background with 3-5 years of experience
• Strong & effective business communication- written and oral skills
• Detail-oriented
• Information seeking & problem-solving mind set
• Adaptable/flexible in changing environment
• Advanced computer skills in Microsoft Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc)
• Ability to travel up to 15% of time.

What’s In It For You:

• Salary Range: $98,400- $140,200
• Competitive Benefit Package (Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, Pension Plan)
• Hybrid Work Policy (3 Days in Office, 2 Days Work from Home) 
• Flexible Time Off (Paid Company Holidays, Paid Vacation, Vacation Buy Program, Volunteer Time, Summer Fridays & More!)
• Access to Company Perks (VIP Access to L’Oréal’s Internal Shop for Discounted Products, Monthly Mobile Allowance)
• Learning & Development Opportunities (Unlimited Access to E-learnings, Lunch & Learn Sessions, Mentorship Programs, & More!)
• Employee Resource Groups (Think Tanks and Innovation Squads)
• Access to Mental Health & Wellness Programs 

Don’t meet every single requirement? At L'Oréal, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and innovative workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with the qualifications listed in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways! You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles!

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