Wellness Strategy Manager

Ulta Beauty, Inc.•Bolingbrook, IL

5d•Onsite

About The Position

Discover greater levels of performance. With over 1,400 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 Manager Wellness will support the growth and operations of the Wellness business, developing and executing strategies and tactics across the category. This role is ideal for a growing leader with an entrepreneurial mindset, interested playing a critical role in managing cross-functional work to drive strong business impact. The Manager Wellness will identify, evaluate and execute new growth opportunities, will support problem solving and opportunity evaluation, perform strategic and financial analyses, create business cases and execute efforts to deliver strategic opportunities with excellence. Because this work requires close partnership with cross-functional teams and leaders, this individual will also support facilitation and alignment to key strategic decisions. This role will need to be comfortable with ambiguity, and able to frame approaches to decipher the way forward and deliver recommendations to address key business issues. The Manager will report to the VP Wellness, within Enterprise Strategy & New Growth organization. The role will partner closely with peers in the merchandising organization, along with other key peers and leaders across the business. This role will have visibility to senior leadership across functions.

Requirements

5-7 years of experience in retail environments, including strategy, finance, and/or management consulting
BA/BS required
Strategic, analytical, and conceptual problem solver with the ability to look into the details and interpret the impact of key business drivers, detect patterns and trends across disparate sources of data, creatively analyze unfamiliar problems and synthesize the ‘so what’s’
Comfort with ambiguity and ability to turn ambiguity into action
Financially savvy and analytical, ability to gather, understand and analyze data and performance metrics essential to building a business/category within the growing and constantly changing landscape
Demonstrated ability to communicate, leveraging interpersonal skills, problem solving and decision-making ability to quickly influence, establish relationships, gain credibility and trust with all audience levels
High emotional intelligence and ability to style-flex your approach based on the needs of the internal and external stakeholders

Nice To Haves

Wellness experience a plus
preference for consumer-facing Retail experience in Beauty, Fashion or Apparel
MBA from top-tier program preferred

Responsibilities

Manages day-to-day execution in alignment with the overall Wellness strategy; advances strategic and analytical analyses; partners closely with Wellness leadership and cross-functional peers.
Support and advance Wellness go-to-market strategy; conduct market and consumer research to identify strategies across customers, competitive positioning and pricing; build business cases & operating models to support Wellness scalability and profitability; measure KPIs for sales growth, market penetration and awareness; be able to deliver high quality work in ways that clearly communicate ideas and thinking to the organization
Support execution of brand identity and marketing strategy, with peers, that differentiates the business in the market; partner to execute in-store experience that aligns with brand values and consumer insights; partner to deliver and measure and elevated digital experience to create a seamless shopping experience
Work cross-functionally to support and analyze store growth and design; develop and help to oversee budgets, P&L and financial forecasts to drive profitability through discrete analysis and modeling
Identify white space opportunities and develop approaches and analysis to address them; understand market dynamics and help to monitor competitive landscape
Bring a can-do, positive attitude; be comfortable with addressing ambiguity by driving analysis forward and bringing initial thinking to the table; possess a strategic mindset; be a team player; demonstrate ability to communicate across levels of the organization
Work collaboratively with Wellness leadership and peers across the organization; facilitate and support discussions with Ulta Beauty’s senior leadership, demonstrating subject matter expertise and ability to move work forward effectively