Category Merchandiser - Make Up - Sephora

OUR MANIFESTO

At Sephora we stand together and we stand for something more. For empowerment, exploration, and the opportunity to impact people's lives through the unlimited power of beauty. We embrace uniqueness, unleash creativity, and pursue progress every day. Sparked by energy and excitement, our passion is contagious. We are united by a common goal to reimagine the future of beauty.

Reimagine your future with Sephora.

OUR VALUE PROPOSITION:

We have a powerful culture that fuses aspirations, uniqueness, authenticity, and value for each and every Sephora member:

Beauty & Beyond: We reimagine beauty by inspiring our customers, empowering people, and helping them become the best versions of themselves.

Creativity Unleashed: We encourage exploration, innovation, and having fun.

Endless Evolution: At Sephora, you are empowered to choose your own path and accelerate your growth.

Boldly Authentic: We celebrate diversity and embrace your unique and winning spirit.

Position Purpose

The Category Merchandiser is fully responsible for the permanent and non-permanent merchandising in all stores of Sephora ME. Bearing in mind Sephora's overall retail strategy and category strategy, he/she applies and enforces changes to the category merchandising rules.

Key Accountabilities

Assortment Management & Merchandising:

• Plan and manage product lifecycle and prepare sales and stock plans under the supervision of the Category Manager.
• Ensure proper stock levels for display and sales for animations and thematics for B&M and Ecom.
• Secure planograms of allocated brands and ensure full merchandising visibility.
• Maintain regional assortments at SKU level and manage allocated catalogue of brand portfolio.
• Maintain launch and discontinuation calendar, brand expansion, and opening of new doors.
• Prepare sales forecasts at SKU level by store/country and channel in alignment with brand budget and in consideration of cannibalization. Propose the most relevant product mix.
• Provide post-launch reports on key launches by SKU level.
• Conduct bi-yearly brand assortment analysis and propose action plan on optimization of SKUs and merchandising.
• Monitor stock based on forecasts, flag overstock situations to management, and suggest action plan.
• Work closely in partnership with planner to ensure brand objectives are appropriately aligned to inventory investment.
• Secure brand participation in the Sephora Favorites program.
• Source and develop new brands that fill an important need gap within the category.
• Initiate and follow up on the regulation and compliance process of all new SKUs.
• Plan promotions, launches, animations, and marketing activities within category strategy with external and internal partners.
• Develop and manage training support with brands and education department.

Omnichannel & Marketing

• Coordinate with relevant teams on brand activation for Ecom visibility, content, and instore animations. Attend the weekly meeting to set M1 priorities.
• Secure optimized brand assets for activations.
• Secure samples and gift quantities for ecommerce activations (GWP, PWP).
• Ensure balanced estore representation of brand and SKU launches.
• Select brand participation for PR events 3 times a year as per Sephora guidelines (gifting stand).
• Coordinate with PR on annual seeding and PR plans with brand partners.
• Ensure timely implementation of digital campaigns.
• Secure samples and gifts quantities for Beauty Pass activations and ensure timely implementation.
• Define products to be highlighted in Beauty Pass emailers in line with category priorities.
• Coordinate and align with social team on calendar priorities and activations such as competitions and giveaways.
• Attend weekly social media meeting to review upcoming posts as per set priorities.

Communication & Reporting

• Prepare monthly category and brand performance KPIs defined by category manager.
• Track monthly brand budgets by country and by store.
• Monitor newness performance.
• Develop and manage brand relations, terms negotiations, testers/damages, and RTVs.
• Coordinate internally across all departments for brand-related topics.

Skills Experience and Personality

We are looking for someone who has an interest and passion in beauty, is makeup savvy, and follows makeup trends and updates. The successful candidate should have excellent analytical and interpretive skills, as well as strong communication (written and oral) and presentation skills. The ideal candidate should have the ability to work effectively both autonomously and as part of a team, showing collaborative spirit and agility.

Most importantly, she/he needs to live and breathe the Sephora Culture DNA and Employee Value propositions (EVP) with a passion for people and making a difference. She/he needs to have excellent authentic communication and influencing skills and be energized by working in a fast-paced dynamic environment.