Merchandising Coordinator

Ulta Beauty, Inc.•Bolingbrook, IL

9h•Onsite

About The Position

As a Merchandising Coordinator, you will support the coordination and execution of the merchandising teams' processes and tasks. Your flexibility, organization and attention to detail will enable the team to achieve sales growth and business objectives. You’ll be directly responsible for SKU maintenance, promotion management, marketing, contracts, store support, as well as general administrative support.

Requirements

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

Nice To Haves

Merchandising expertise not required
Bachelors' degree in retail merchandising or relevant field preferred

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