IT Business Intelligence Intern
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.
About the role
The Business Intelligence (BI) Summer Intern will help leverage data-driven insights to improve business decision-making, including activities like analysis of large datasets, development of AI-driven models, and creation of interactive dashboards using Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Power BI. The work will help optimize retail operations, enhance customer experiences, and drive efficiencies across merchandising, supply chain, and e-commerce.
To apply you must meet these guidelines/requirements:
Responsibilities
Analyze Large Datasets – Extract, clean, and analyze structured and unstructured retail data using SQL, Python, Databricks, and Microsoft Fabric to identify trends and business insights that drive decision-making.
Develop AI-Driven Models – Assist in building and testing machine learning models for demand forecasting, customer segmentation, and fraud detection, improving operational efficiency and customer engagement.
Create Interactive Dashboards & Reports – Design and develop real-time, visual dashboards using Power BI to track key performance metrics for merchandising, supply chain, and e-commerce teams.
Support Data Engineering & Cloud Analytics – Work with Azure cloud platform and Microsoft Fabric to optimize data pipelines and storage solutions, ensuring data availability and accuracy.
Collaborate & Present Insights – Work cross-functionally with business stakeholders, data scientists, and engineers to present actionable insights, recommendations, and data-driven solutions to leadership teams.
Knowledge, skills & abilities requirements
Competencies & attributes
Adaptability: Comfortable working in a fast-paced retail environment with shifting priorities and multiple projects.
Working conditions & physical requirements
Location: Hybrid | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at the Sally Beauty Support Center, Legacy West (Plano, TX); Remote Thursday or 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.
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Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. (“Sally”) through its affiliates is the world’s largest distributor of professional beauty supplies. Sally provides the channels that allow manufacturers of beauty supplies to reach customers, both professional and non-professional.
Sally Beauty Company, Inc. began as a one-store operation in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1964. The Company expanded slowly until the 1980s, when it began to grow rapidly through acquisition and new store openings. In 1982, Sally moved its corporate headquarters to Denton, Texas following the acquisition of a Denton-based chain.
In 1985, Sally acquired a major full-service (professional only) beauty supply distributor servicing the Midwestern United States. The growth of the full-service business led to the formation of the company now known as Beauty Systems Group LLC, focusing on distribution solely to the professional trade.
New store openings and acquisitions continue to guide Sally’s expansion. In 1987, Sally became an international company with the acquisition of an affiliate in the United Kingdom. Today, Sally and its affiliates operate over 4500 stores throughout the United States and the world. Our international operations now extend to the United Kingdom, continental Europe, Puerto Rico, Canada, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Mexico. Both Sally Beauty Supply and Beauty Systems Group have successful and growing online (e-commerce) businesses.
In 2006, Sally became a publicly held company with its shares traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Sally and its affiliates have long been industry leaders. Expertise in professional product merchandising, distribution and education provides the basis for a commanding presence in the global market. This, combined with strong domestic growth and international development, positions the companies for anticipated continuing success in future years.
All subsidiaries and affiliates share Sally’s customer-driven operating philosophy and vision.
