Merchandising Intern - Happy Beauty Co.

Happy Beauty Co. Summer Internship

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. Happy Beauty Co. has entered into SBH family with now 19 locations in Arizona and Texas. These locations serve a younger demographic adding new categories and offering quality beauty at great prices.

As a team member of Happy Beauty Co. this summer role will support the merchant organization in delivering sales and strategies for future growth and expansion. This internship will provide exposure to multi-facets of retail, inclusive of the following: product management, financials, marketing, pricing, visual impact, product development, sourcing, ecommerce and competitive assessment. This position will work directly with merchants and cross-functional teams as we deliver day-to-day actions while supporting analysis for go forward strategies.

To apply you must meet these guidelines/requirements:

• This is a hybrid position requiring onsite work three days per week at the Support Center in Legacy West, Plano, TX.
• This position is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
• Housing, relocation, and transportation assistance are not provided.
• Availability is required from June 1 through August 7, 2026, with a minimum commitment of 30 hours per week.

Primary duties include:

• Category management, assessment, product merchandising, presentation, cross collaboration, communications with P & A, vendors, stores organization, plus competitive superiority/ecommerce activation.
• No day will ever be the same while working with Happy Beauty Co. and learning the function of a start-up business, the basics of buying and merchandising, while delivering sales and margin will drive the roles and duties of exposure.
• This exposure is designed to provide understanding of the lifecycle of a product and will constitute both in-store experiences as well as on-line. Work will include set-up, regulatory, speed to market, education, presentation, delivery, replenishment, assessment of performance and disposition.
• Touches will include sales reporting, developing opportunities for growth, pivots if performance is not as expected, building of best practices to ensure POG governance, enforcing presentation standards, and comp shopping.

Knowledge, skills & abilities:

• Currently in business or merchandising undergraduate program (close to graduation preferred)
• Available to work full 10-wk program with min of 30 hours a week
• Understanding of basic retail math, enjoys analysis and critical thinking
• Basic Excel competency from vlook-up to pivot tables. Microsoft experience and comfort with use of Email, Teams, Word, Power Point etc. JDA/Tableau exposure a PLUS
• Swift problem-solving skills and comfort with the daily potential to pivot based on business need.
• Demonstrated time management with ability to prioritize and achieve deadlines.

Competencies & attributes:

• Passionate Learner actively learns; asks questions to gain further understanding; open to feedback; applies learning to role; considers learning important and completes when assigned
• Flexible & Agile Adapter open to change, works well with little direction and finishes the task, keeps calm under pressure and doesn't dwell on the past
• Talent Builder shares knowledge with others, considers how to include others to problem solve and gain knowledge, looks for ways to acknowledge and motivate others
• Effective Communicator can articulate well when sharing information, self-aware of impact and style when communicating to engage others, asks questions and listens
• Team Builder works well with others, collaborates with a wide number of associates/teams, acts humbly when a part of a team and understands the importance of including others
• Customer Focused Partner understands the customer and shares insights, values the customer and eager to make a positive impact, holds self to a good standard of customer service
• Strategic Thinker brings new, strategic ideas to the team, actively supports strategic plans, provides additional ideas to drive improvements
• Big Picture Thinker understands how the team operates, knows how decisions could impact other teams
• Results Driver holds self to a good standard of work and delivery, manages own time and focuses on the right priorities, self-motivated, adapts easily, demonstrates grit
• Problem Solver & Decision Maker uses the right information to make decisions and take action with others to solve problems, uses good judgement to make prompt yet balanced decisions

Working conditions & physical requirements:

Location: Hybrid | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday at the Sally Beauty Support Center, Legacy West (Plano, TX); Remote Thursday or Friday

In office Mandatory 3 days a week (Monday -Wed) with WFH (Thur-Fri). Working environment: office majority of day sitting/standing at desk or in meetings. However, 1 day a week may entail physical exertion of moving shelves, lifting boxes and merchandising product <25lbs in showroom or in store

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.