THE IMPACT YOU CAN HAVE:Ulta Beauty is in the midst of a significant, multi-year project that will transform and modernize the merchandising processes and technology. The end to end process will encompass planning, pricing, assortments, forecasting, inventory management, and space planning.
The key goals are to (1) to optimize the right product in the right place at the right time (2) accelerate the business by standardizing and automating new systems and workflows to respond to trends more quickly (3) embrace advanced analytics and AI to elevate decision quality and visibility across the end to end process
The Sr. Director is a key leadership role within the organization. This role will report to the SVP of Merchandise Planning and Operations, and work closely with the Transformation Office and the most senior members of Ulta Beauty's organization to lead the user-side implementations, drive desired business outcomes, and shape our future ways of working with a focus on consumer and business value. This role will have the overall accountability for the successful adoption of the multi-year project, inclusive of delivering long term value and within budget.
YOU'LL ACCOMPLISH THESE GOALS BY:- Program Delivery: efficiently leverage project resources, mitigating risk, removing obstacles, prioritizing and assigning work, and driving accountability across the project team, SMEs, and mutli-functional leads.
- Strategic Transformation Roadmapping:Continue to define and implement the transformation roadmap, aligning business strategies (e.g., omni-channel inventory complexity) with technology capabilities.
- Stakeholder Influence: Work closely with leaders across functional workstreams- Merchandising, Planning, Finance, Supply Chain, Field, Omni, Technology, Transformation office, enterprise support teams, and key software and consultant partners to create and execute strategies to deliver transformational use cases aligned to value. Partner with senior management to ideate, evaluate, prioritize, and execute initiatives and work cross-functionally to gain alignment across multiple stakeholders that may have different priorities.
- Deliver Value Cases: Work with Finance, Technology, and Transformation office to manage and track budget for all included programs and workstreams, collaborating on business case development. Ensure funds are appropriately assigned and effectively utilized to deliver the project roadmap on-time and capture value.
- Operational Efficiency:Monitors end to end process design and deployment to achieve key goals: automation, responsiveness, accuracy, AI deployment, scalability.
- Process Communication: Ensure project governance practices are followed, such as managing the project scope, delivery roadmap, change request process, funding model, reporting/communicating transparently across key stakeholders, and following a disciplined decision-making and prioritization process.
- Executive Communication: Lead upward communication and materials preparation, providing transparency to key stakeholders, the Executive Leadership Team, and Board of Directors to ensure proper strategic alignment and secure support where necessary.
- Configuration & Implementation:Manage user group and partner with IT to manage configuration options, testing, and managing the UAT (User Acceptance Testing) process.
- Change Management & Adoption:Drive the adoption of new tools and processes by building "super user" networks, conducting training, creating playbooks, and performing change impact assessments. Partner with Change Management team on communication and monitoring adoption.
- Continuous Improvement:Define and monitor KPIs as established in the business case (e.g., inventory turns, plan forecast accuracy) to identify process gaps and build sprint release plans in partnership with IT.
THE ESSENTIALS FOR SUCCESS:- Senior strategic leader within the retail industry, has 15+ years of relevant industry experience
- Experience leading and executing transformation across multiple functions
- This leader should have the experience and intuition needed to serve as a highly visible, collaborative advisor and facilitator to management teams and other stakeholders.
- He/she/they will embody key competencies including, but not limited to:
- Deep functional expertise in inventory, planning, buying or related discipline
- An enterprise-thinker and exceptional problem solver
- Highly collaborative approach
- Value creation, Business case delivery
- Process engineering mind-set
- Results-oriented and strong accountability
- Strong cross-functional leadership and facilitation skills
- Powerful and effective communication and influence capabilities
Additionally, the successful candidate will possess:
- Proven leadership experience, including the ability to transform organizations while leading broad adoption
- High degree of analytical horsepower, understanding sales and inventory cost trade-offs and creative problem solving.
The pay range for this position is $208,000.00 - $309,000.00 / Year with the opportunity for eligible associates to earn additional compensation pursuant to the Company's bonus plan. Exact pay will be based on factors including, but not limited to relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, level, shift, geographic location, and business and organizational needs. 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. For additional information concerning our benefits, visit our Benefits and Career Development page: https://learn.bswift.com/ulta
