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.
Provides senior leadership for a progressively broad merchandising scope, leading teams of merchants responsible for building customer-focused, trend-right assortments that drive sales, margin, inventory productivity, and category growth across channels. Sets strategic direction across buying, product selection, pricing, promotions, vendor partnerships, and lifecycle management while advancing process improvement, cross-functional alignment, and special projects that strengthen execution, simplify ways of working, and deliver a compelling Sally customer experience. This position is a hybrid role reporting to our support center at Legacy West in Plano Texas.
Provide senior leadership to merchant teams, setting clear direction across category strategies, business priorities, and financial goals. Develop merchant leaders, strengthen team capability, remove barriers, and build a high-performing culture focused on accountability, collaboration, customer relevance, and continuous improvement.
Set the strategic direction for customer-focused assortment and category plans across assigned areas of responsibility. Guide merchant teams in translating customer needs, market trends, competitive insights, financial targets, and growth opportunities into relevant, differentiated assortments that support sales, margin, inventory productivity, and a consistent Sally experience across store and digital channels
Lead cross-functional alignment with Planning & Allocation, Marketing, Ecommerce, Store Operations, Merch Finance, Product Development, Visual Merchandising, and vendor partners to ensure category strategies are executed with clarity, speed, and accountability. Influence priorities, resolve barriers, manage risks, and support process improvements and special projects that strengthen launch execution, promotional planning, lifecycle management, and the overall Sally customer experience.
Provide senior-level ownership of business performance across assigned categories, including sales, margin, inventory health, turns, open-to-buy, and SKU productivity. Use data, customer insights, and financial performance to guide merchant teams, identify risks and opportunities, shape corrective actions, and ensure category strategies deliver against business goals.
Lead merchant teams in identifying emerging trends, customer needs, assortment white space, and new growth opportunities across assigned businesses. Translate market, vendor, competitive, and performance insights into strategic recommendations, innovation ideas, and special projects that strengthen Sally’s assortment relevance and customer experience.
Provide senior guidance on vendor and brand partnerships to support innovation, exclusivity, cost and margin improvement, supply continuity, education, promotional support, and long-term category growth. Ensure merchant teams build productive partnerships that align with Sally’s customer, financial, and brand priorities.
Lead merchant partnership with Merch Finance and Planning & Allocation to support open-to-buy, receipt planning, budgeting, forecasting, and key financial deliverables. Use financial insights to guide smart buying decisions, improve planning discipline, support process improvements, and enable strong category execution.
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.
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!
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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.
