PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

About Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. At SBH, our purpose is to inspire a more colorful, confident, and welcoming world. We are the leader in professional hair color, selling and distributing professional beauty supplies across 11 countries through our Sally Beauty and Beauty Systems Group businesses. Sally Beauty offers products for hair color, hair care, nails, and skin care to retail customers looking for salon-quality products at a value price. Beauty Systems Group, branded as Cosmo Prof or Armstrong McCall stores, along with its direct sales consultants, sell professionally branded products intended for use and resale by salons to retail consumers.

Essential Function As our Product Development Manager, you will drive the execution of product development to ensure critical gates and dates are met throughout all stages of the commercialization process. Including steer the creation, redevelopment and launch of product across a wide range of beauty categories covering styling tools, hard hair goods and accessories. Leveraging consumer insights and trends, you will craft innovative product roadmaps and oversee execution from concept to shelf. This position is hybrid reporting into the support center at Legacy West in Plano Texas.

Responsibilities

• Initiates new product ideas and/or recommends improvements to enhance or maintain assigned brands market position including concept, package development, testing plans, merchandising and promotion.
• Ensures development execution is in accordance with design, allocation, sourcing, and brand strategy.
• Lead cross functional communication and coordination of timing, calendar, product updates, approvals, and issues.
• Lead and manage an Assistant manager, supporting them in the day to day of development and analytics of the brands and categories you lead.
• Leverage an internal network to share best-practices in process and product development and drive standardization across the business by leading the way.
• Connect with external stakeholders (suppliers, customers, research institutes) to develop an innovation ecosystem that results in new project/product development or result in improving existing process.
• Communicate and cooperate with the marketing and merchandizing teams to align strategy, product development and marketing are intertwined to grow your categories and brands.
• Implement best practices ensuring formula optimization, safety, and quality standards are met. With sharp analytical skills, you will maintain metrics on cost, timing, and specifications.
• Work cross functionally with sourcing department to ensure raw materials and components delivery is being maintained to quality standards and vendors are vetted to category development criteria.
• Deliver trend analysis for category newness and seasonal product line activities.
• Leverage existing data on market, intellectual property and customer analytics to identify relevant trends and develop technology roadmap in your area of expertise.
• Manage and execute budget and cost process for owned categories, negotiating initial pricing, and tracking cost submittals.
• Anticipate, identify and communicate any potential obstacles in the development process and facilitate the effective resolution of issues.
• Partner with cross functional teams to develop and execute samples for awareness and store trials.
• Identify and maintain evergreen and seasonal development metrics. Knowledge, skills & abilities requirements
• Bachelor's degree preferred
• 3+ years’ experience working in product development within the beauty industry is preferred.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Proficient in using production management software and tools to track progress, manage inventory, and analyze production data.
• Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to think critically and strategically.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.
• Proactive and detail-oriented mindset, ensuring thoroughness and accuracy in all production-related activities. Competencies / Attributes
• Ability to multitask.
• Ability to delegate.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to monitor.

Working conditions & physical requirements Location: Hybrid | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at the Sally Beauty Support Center, Legacy West (Plano, TX); Remote Thursday and Friday The typical working environment is in the support center office, and the work is sedentary. Typically, the associate may sit comfortably to do the job. However, some tasks and activities may be walking, standing, bending, carrying light items such as papers, files, books, and small parts, driving an automobile to a store location, etc. These activities are not frequent and do not require significant physical demands to perform the work. While involving everyday risks or discomforts, the work environment is designed with standard safety precautions. These precautions, typical of offices, meeting and training rooms, retail stores, residences, or commercial vehicles, include using safe work practices with office equipment, avoiding trips and falls, observing fire regulations and traffic signals, etc. The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated, ensuring the safety and comfort of our associates.

Benefits:

We offer a competitive salary and outstanding benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, paid vacation and sick days, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement and 401(k) with company match. In addition, associates of SBH may take advantage of our in house salon with complementary services and a varied selection of food options at our corporate campus. Also, featured at our corporate campus, is both a Sally Beauty and CosmoProf Professional onsite store, where associates enjoy a great merchandise discount!