Project Manager, Brand Updates, S@K

Company: Sephora USA, Inc
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 24, 2025

Job Description:

Press Tab to Move to Skip to Content LinkJob ID:265449
Location Name: CA-FSC SF Off (0174)
Address: 350 Mission St, 20th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (US)
Job Type: Full Time
Position Type: Regular
Job Function: Merchandising
Remote Eligible:Hybrid ScheduleCompany Overview:At Sephora we inspire our customers, empower our teams, and help them become the best versions of themselves. We create an environment where people are valued, and differences are celebrated. Every day, our teams across the world bring to life our purpose: to expand the way the world sees beauty by empowering the Extra Ordinary in each of us. We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.The Opportunity:Our merchandising team is constantly building brands, starting trends, and developing entirely new product categories. These experts roll up their sleeves and advise our brands on the best way to bring our clients what they crave-and what they will be craving soon. Our product pipeline is so robust and exciting that many of the items that will be most in-demand in our stores next year don't even exist yet. And our merchants don't stop at selection-they bring the assortment to life through breakthrough curation and storytelling across our stores and digital properties.Your role at Sephora: The Project Manager, Brand Updates, is responsible for the project management of the brand update process. This involves extensive coordination between the brands, fixture companies, graphic companies and cross-functional partners.As a Project Manager, you will be reporting to the Manager.In addition, you will:Milestone Management:

• Daily maintenance of the Update schedules. Ensure projects are added and edits are made in a timely manner.
• Manage multiple brands/categories, become the key leader in all cross functional projects involving that department.
  • Manage brand relationships with the team and strive for continued improvements and relationship growth.
  • Lead weekly update meetings and conference calls with internal and external teams, ensuring fixtures and product land in store on time.
  • Send outside vendor's appropriate files (distribution lists, update grids) and track each update to ensure milestones are being met once projects have kicked off.
  • Enforcement of pushing in store dates when deadlines are missed by the brand.
  • Calculate weekly store workload and ensure that the Workload Optimization Team has accurate labor hours for total operational workload planning.
  • Participate in annual and seasonal planning meetings for the brand, contributing solutions and meeting budget expectations.
  • Post final instructions, tracking, and store tasks to store intranet with assistance from the Specialists.Design Development:
    • Approve all planograms and instruction sheets to ensure they meet the Sephora requirements before the update ship to stores.
      • Ensure coordinating guidelines are received in full and on time and passed to appropriate partners.
      • Leads proto reviews in partnership with Vendor, speaks to merch ops standards, fit/ function, updatability, and viability in store.
        • Travel is often required for prototype review attendance.
        • Provide feedback for test/prototype store and fixture designs as they are established.
        • Develops an extensive fixture knowledge for the department within the brand(s) they are managing.
        • Participate in monthly team store visits to execute Updates.
        • Support in executing cross-functional strategies & initiatives for the brand
          • Retrofits/Store Planning directives
          • Store Design Directives (new store prototypes, new fixture designs)
          • Merchandising Directives & strategies
          • New Store/Procurement strategies
          • On-boards new partners and cross functional teams to Sephora Merchandising Operations policies, procedures, and standardsMaintenance and Continuous Improvement:
            • Work with Specialist to identify update and global issues. Determine and define corrective action plans if needed.
            • Elevate issues from calls to Updates partners, Merchants, and other internal partners.
            • Identify opportunities for improving brand and vendor relationships (cost savings, influencing service levels) through management of the Vendor Scorecard program.
              • Work directly with updates team and procurement on maintaining and updating Vendor Scorecard documents and process
              • Demonstrate our Sephora values of Passion for Client Service, Innovation, Expertise, Balance, Respect for All, Teamwork, and Initiative.We're excited about you if you have:
                • 2-5 years' project management/creative management experience.
                • Self-starter, high degree of initiative and independence, but also able to work with teams from different departments/various levels within Sephora, outside vendors, and agencies.
                • Excellent communicator, superb verbal and written communication skills.
                • Logical thinker and excellent problem solver.
                • Strong organizational skills, able to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
                • Action oriented, works with a sense of urgency and very proactive.
                • Strong interpersonal skills, approachable and flexible.
                • Excellent computer skills - MS Office, Smartsheet and Adobe Suite a plus.
                • A passion for retail is a plus
                • Must be able to travel independently and handle physical setup of visual displays as needed.The annual base salary range for this position is $99,000.00- $106,000.00 The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include, as applicable, the applicant's qualifications for the position; years of relevant experience; specific and unique skills; level of education attained; certifications or other professional licenses held; other legitimate, non-discriminatory business factors specific to the position; and the geographic location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will perform the job. Individuals employed in this position may also be eligible to earn bonuses. Sephora offers a generous benefits package to full-time employees, which includes comprehensive health, dental and vision plans; a superior 401(k) plan, various paid time off programs; employee discount/perks; life insurance; disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; and an employee referral bonus program. This job will be posted for a minimum of 5 days.While at Sephora, you'll enjoy---
                  • The people. You will be surrounded by some of the most talented leaders and teams - people you can be proud to work with.
                  • The learning. We invest in training and developing our teams, and you will continue evolving and building your skills through personalized career plans.
                  • The culture. As a leading beauty retailer within the LVMH family, our reach is broad, and our impact is global. It is in our DNA to innovate and, at Sephora, all 40,000 passionate team members across 35 markets and 3,000+ stores, are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.You can unleash your creativity, because we've got disruptive spirit. You can learn and evolve, because we empower you to be your best. You can be yourself, because you are what sets us apart. This, is the future of beauty. Reimagine your future, at Sephora.Sephora is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, military/veteran status, or disability status. Sephora is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities.Sephora will consider for employment all qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.
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