Ulta Beauty · 9 hours ago
Senior Director of Product Management, Merchandising Technology
Bolingbrook, IL
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$202K/yr - $260K/yr
15+ years expUlta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer, recognized for its commitment to innovation and collaboration. The Senior Director of Product Management, Merchandising Technology will lead the strategy and execution of the merchandising technology portfolio, driving improvements in revenue and customer experience through advanced analytics and innovative solutions. This role requires collaboration with various departments to enhance decision-making and optimize inventory management.
BeautyConsumer GoodsCosmeticsRetail
Responsibilities
Own and drive a multi-year product strategy and roadmap for the merchandising technology portfolio, spanning Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment & Item Planning, Allocation & Replenishment, Inventory Management, and Pricing & Promotions, delivering measurable improvements in revenue, margin, and inventory productivity
Prioritize, manage, and deliver multiple high-impact initiatives across planning, buying, pricing, and inventory domains, ensuring execution against business outcomes such as GMROI, sell-through, forecast accuracy, markdown optimization, and in-stock performance
Lead and govern portfolio-level product planning, translating enterprise merchandising and financial strategies into sequenced, outcome-based product roadmaps across multiple product teams and platforms
Define and own the product vision, OKRs, and performance metrics for all merchandising technology products, ensuring alignment to commercial objectives, customer experience, and operational efficiency
Diagnose complex business and technology challenges across planning, pricing, and inventory ecosystems, and drive scalable, data-driven solutions that improve decision quality and speed to market
Continuously assess the competitive and vendor landscape across retail planning, pricing, and inventory platforms, identifying opportunities to introduce differentiated capabilities and modernize the merchandising technology stack
Partner closely with Merchandising, Planning, Pricing, Supply Chain, and Finance leaders to shape future-state business processes and translate them into enabling digital capabilities
Oversee the design of end-to-end merchandising user experiences, ensuring planners, merchants, and pricing teams have intuitive, analytics-driven tools that support faster and better decisions
Set product management standards, operating models, and objectives across the merchandising portfolio, establishing consistent practices for discovery, prioritization, delivery, and value realization
Serve as the primary product leader and executive liaison for strategic merchandising technology vendors (e.g., planning, pricing, allocation, and forecasting platforms), influencing their roadmaps to align with enterprise priorities
Lead and develop multiple product teams, including Product Group Leads, Product Managers, Product Owners, and Analysts, ensuring tight alignment between business strategy, platform delivery, and measurable outcomes
Partner with Technology, Data & Analytics, and Enterprise Architecture leadership to align platform strategy, data models, and integration patterns in support of end-to-end merchandising workflows
Champion innovation across the merchandising ecosystem, including advanced analytics, AI-driven forecasting, price optimization, and automated replenishment, to continuously enhance competitive advantage and financial performance
Stay abreast of retail, merchandising, pricing, inventory, and technology trends—including AI-driven forecasting, price optimization, and omnichannel inventory models—to identify new capabilities and inform future-state product strategy that drives incremental revenue, margin expansion, and inventory productivity
Serve as a senior thought leader and advocate for product-led merchandising transformation, championing modern planning, pricing, and inventory practices and a culture of continuous improvement across both business and technology teams
Build, scale, and develop high-performing merchandising product teams, including Product Managers, Product Owners, and Product Analysts, through disciplined hiring, structured onboarding, coaching, knowledge transfer, and ongoing performance feedback
Drive sustained product value realization across the full lifecycle, using analytics and business outcomes (e.g., forecast accuracy, sell-through, markdown reduction, in-stock rates, and margin) to continuously optimize solutions for merchants, planners, and pricing teams
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Merchandising, or equivalent experience
15+ years of technology or product leadership experience
Experience building and growing multiple product teams that operate autonomously, while sharing responsibility for the user experience
Extensive experience leading multi-year transformations in a retail environment with an emphasis on Merchandising, Inventory Management, and Product Lifecycle Management
Multiple experiences successfully creating and executing against product visions, strategies, and roadmaps that achieve goals and outcomes
Experience evaluating technology solutions for fit and viability against use cases
Extensive experience selecting and onboarding new partner platforms & managing third party vendor relationships
Exceptional at working with and analyzing user metrics and turning them into actionable insights, including the use of analytics platforms
Ability to think both strategically and tactically while being equally comfortable with long term planning and day-to-day progress tracking and execution
Demonstrated experience in collaborating and communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to influence peer leaders & align the organization on complex decisions
Strong leadership skills and the proven ability to drive organizational change
Active coach and mentor whose goals are to grow and maximize the teams potential
Ability to influence people over whom you do not have direct authority
Benefits
Paid time off
Health
Dental
Vision
Life and disability benefits
Company
Ulta Beauty
Ulta Beauty is a beauty retailer that offers a wide range of products including cosmetics, fragrances, skincare, and hair care.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2020 (9)
Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$266.3MKey Investors
Berkshire HathawayDimensional Fund Advisors
2024-08-14Post Ipo Equity· $266.3M
2016-10-11Post Ipo Equity
2007-10-25IPO
Leadership Team
Kecia Steelman
President & CEO
Chris Lialios
Senior Vice President Controller
Recent News
2026-02-04
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