Merchandising Coordinator

Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and is focused on revolutionizing the beauty retail experience. As a Merchandising Coordinator, you will support the merchandising team by managing SKUs, executing promotions, and providing administrative support to ensure sales growth and business objectives are met.

Responsibilities

• Maintains SKUs by ensuring they are accurate according to Merchant's discretion. This includes shelf tag requests, description charges, brand charges, style codes, feature codes, store classification changes, and markdowns
• Initiates and seeds offers for all promotions into Promo Advisor, utilizing print + master side by sides. Inputs all SKUs into offers and finalizes with pricing team
• Executes marketing sign requests, proofs sign requests, mag, and digital assets
• Maintains organized product samples Manages the contract process through close partnership with Buyer/Sr Buyer
• Creates contracts for brands based on markdowns, promotions, damages, and test details. Collects/stores signed contracts and provides routine contract status and summaries to the team
• Submits pricing requests, new SKU setups, existing SKU coding changes, enters markdowns, initiates exit strategies (RTV/DIF) and adds new SKUs to the open to buy tracker for planograms. Provides shelf strip proofing support to assistant buyers
• Provides proactive solutions to help desk tickets and prepares store memos and communication requests
• Maintains brand contacts, organizes brand/vendor meetings, and performs additional tasks as needed

Skills

• Organization: ability to manage time effectively, prioritize tasks, set goals, and develop best practices for achieving those goals
• Communicates effectively: in a variety of settings, attentively listens to others, pro-actively provides timely and helpful information and encourages the open expression of ideas and opinions
• Collaboration: strong partnership with internal partners, understands that success is done by a team of people
• Problem solving: ability to identify and prioritize a problem and implement solutions
• Planning and prioritizing: ability to stay organized in a fast-moving business
• Financial acumen: understanding of a brand and company P&L and the drivers of profitability
• MS office: demonstrated proficiency in MS Office, including Excel (v look-ups and formulas)
• Passion: for brands, products and assortment development
• Innovation: Aims to improve merchandising processes by identifying barriers and raising solutions
• Teamwork: understands that success is done by a team of people
• Bachelors' degree in retail merchandising or relevant field preferred

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Health
• Dental
• Vision
• Life and disability benefits

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