Associate Manager, Displays

Position Title: Associate Manager Retail Display Operations

Reports to: Sr Manager In Store Execution

Location: Calabasas CA or NYC (Hybrid)

Direct Reports: N/A

Scope: All Channels/Brands

ABOUT THE WELLA COMPANY

TogetherWEenable individuals to look feel and be their true selves.

WellaCompany is one of the worlds leading beauty companies comprised of a family of iconic brands such as Wella Professionals Clairol OPI Nioxin and ghd. With 6000 employees globally presence in over 100 countries WellaCompany and its brands enable consumers to look feel and be their true selves. As innovators in the hair and nail industry WellaCompany empowers its people to delight consumers inspire beauty professionals engage communities and deliver sustainable growth to its stakeholders.

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THE ROLE

Wella is a leading hair and beauty products company that owns iconic brands like Clairol and OPI. To continue this exciting journey and deliver on our customer promise we are looking for a hands-on enthusiastic Retail Display Project Manager.

The ideal candidate will lead our promotional displays execution enabling the sales organization to achieve their business goals and is recognized for strong project management skills attention to detail keen business acumen and excellent interpersonal abilities. You excel at cultivating cross functional relationships and are able to persuade others in order to deliver your customer focused end goals.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Leads the end-to-end display development process from receiving the request from the Sales team checking the financials working on the Mix of the Display with the Sales and Trade-Marketing Team working with the agencies and the Marketing team to get the creatives and working with display manufacturer and partners to produce and deliver them on time and within budget

• Builds strong relationships with the Sales organization leading to an in-depth understanding of their retailer shopper competition & key focus points to enable development of winning display strategies for Clairol and OPI

• Creates planograms utilizing software similar to NexGen Spaceman or JDA

• Defines and plans display annual forecast roadmap calendar and strategies across our customers; Understands the Categories we operate in to identify the promotional opportunities

• Works as part of the Trade Marketing team to create and deliver the displays required to execute the promotional strategy of the retailers

• Manages display budget

• Ensures display readiness project tracking and execution

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors degree or 3 years prior experience in consumer package goods / Visual Merchandising position

• Prior experience with NexGen Spaceman or JDA preferred

• Experience with Adobe Illustrator Acrobat InDesign to check art files for print.

• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills specifically Excel and PowerPoint

• Strategic thinking and strong follow through and project management skills

• Understands the display development process to deliver semi-permanent and permanent displays for Wella Company map future needs and recommend the best approach moving forward

• Ability to problem solve and make design decisions based on analytics

• Proactive approach take initiative to do whats needed for the business

• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams with a customer-focused mindset

• Strong communication skills needed to ensure flawless process

• Knowledge of hair color or nail categories is a plus

We disclose the compensation range for positions in compliance with local law. Actual salaries will vary and may be above or below the range based on various factors including but not limited to location experience skills and in comparison to internal incumbents currently in similar rolespay Range: $75000-$98000 The range listed is just one component of Wella Companys total rewards package for employees. Other rewards may include annual bonus plan or variable pay depending on the addition Wella Company provides a rich variety of benefits to employees including health insurance life and disability insurance 401(k) retirement plan paid holidays and paid time off (PTO).

NOTICES

• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color sex sexual orientation gender identity religion national origin disability veteran status or other legally protected status.
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Required Experience:

Manager