Sr Director Pricing & Assortment Analytics

Ulta Beauty, Inc. • Bolingbrook, IL

2d

About The Position

Discover greater levels of performance. With over 1,300 stores throughout the U.S. and an innovative omni-channel ecosystem, Ulta Beauty is revolutionizing the beauty retail experience. Ulta Beauty is expanding its digital capabilities, opening new stores on a continual basis and re-designing existing locations with the latest design and technological advancements for heightened guest experiences. We’re not just growing, we’re thriving through consistent innovation and a bold commitment to re-imagination. If you want the opportunity to build something strategic, to take ownership of your career trajectory, to apply your passion to operational excellence, Ulta Beauty provides the kind of stability and support few organizations can match. So be curious. Be flexible. Be more than you thought possible. The future is yours at Ulta Beauty.
THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE:
Responsible for designing, implementing, and managing systems and process design to maximize productivity across inventory, assortments, and pricing functions. Inspirational leader who is focused around delivering on business strategy, developing and leveraging insights, building operational capabilities, developing process/training, enhancing business performance, credibility for driving change and adoption.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in analytics, finance, business or equivalent professional experience
• 10-15 years of progressive experience spanning analytics, consulting, strategy, project delivery, planning, ideally within retail and CPG industry.
• Education: Undergraduate degree required; advanced degrees in analytics, economics, or business are a plus.
• Technical skills: Familiarity with SQL, Python, or R for analysis and modeling.
• Advanced proficiency with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau etc) and excel
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and curiosity: Strong ability to interpret data, identify trends, and present actionable recommendations. Experience with demand models, price elasticity or other complex data modeling is required.
• Communication skills: Ability to translate complex analytics into clear, strategic insights for non-technical stakeholders.
• Demonstrated collaboration and relationship building across leadership and functional levels
• Strong story-telling skills via power point and other presentation methods
• Inspirational leader who is focused around delivering on business strategy, developing and leveraging insights, building operational capabilities, developing process/training, enhancing business performance, credibility for driving change and adoption.
• Excellent organizational, operational, and project management skills

Responsibilities

• Synthesize advanced analytics: Provide hindsight insights to influence inventory, pricing, and assortment systems and business processes supporting cross-functional partners to achieve strategic and tactical objectives.
• Systems Implementation and on-going enhancements : Codify pricing guardrails and frameworks. Oversee the development, integration, and ongoing enhancements of pricing systems, assortment tools, space productivity and business intelligence across the merchandising organization. Leverage AI to advance planning, inventory and margin accuracy.
• Operational delivery of analytics: Manage complex data sets, deploy predictive analytics, and ensure accuracy, compliance, and timeliness of data available to users across pricing, inventory and assortment solutions aligned to strategic direction and project delivery. Own hindsight related to market competitive position and variations from strategic intent.
• Process and Tool Optimization: Streamline workflows, automate manual processes, and ensure scalability of operations. Establish KPIs and dashboards to track pricing, inventory, and assortment effectiveness, margin impact, and system performance.
• Reporting, Decision Support and Business Intelligence: Lead the development of enhanced scorecards and dashboards to improve data accessibility and operational decisions for working teams. Manage a project plan with ongoing releases. Manage the master data architecture and governance process to ensure accuracy and accessibility of data. Build reusable analytics assets to enable scale, speed and reliability.
• Assortment efficiency: Analyze sales performance and recommend product mix strategies to maximize profitability and customer satisfaction. Improved store cluster process and provide analytics and insights to merchant and planning partners to increase $/ Sq ft.
• Pricing execution: ensures accurate pricing flow through systemic structure. Liaison with IT, marketing and visual partners. Collaborate with planning to review in season performance fluctuations, financial impact. Prepare weekly promotional summaries supporting go to market process.
• Consultation with stakeholders: Present well-structured action oriented hindsights to mid- and senior-level executives, influencing merchandising, marketing, category planning, and price strategy teams.
• Vendor & Technology Management: Work with external software vendors and internal tech teams to adapt and implement new solutions. Continuously seek user feedback and continuously release new enhancements.
• Strategic Leadership: Lead the assortment optimization team, setting vision and priorities for product mix strategies, considering supply chain and store operations business goals.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Use analytics, customer insights, and market trends to recommend optimal assortments across various store types and sizes. Recommend pricing insights to influence adjustments to the strategies.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with merchandising, marketing, supply chain, and finance teams to align assortment strategies with business goals. Provide supporting analytics for go to market processes, space alignment, and inventory flow.

Benefits

• Full-time positions are eligible for paid time off, health, dental, vision, life and disability benefits.
• Part-time positions are eligible for dental, vision, life, and disability benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level