# Director of Beauty

**Company**: Pattern
**Location**: Lehi, UT
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are seeking a Director of Beauty to own the end-to-end strategic vision for Beauty brands partnering with Pattern. The successful candidate will set the direction for planning, forecasting, and inventory strategy that the wider Beauty organization executes against.

Responsibilities:

- Set the strategic direction for end-to-end planning, forecasting, and inventory optimization across high-profile beauty brands

- Own category intake strategy at a portfolio level , OTB, ordering, and excess management , ensuring optimum inventory health and in-stock performance while controlling capital usage across the business

- Translate forecast deviations and their future implications into decisive action, setting the mitigation approach the wider team builds plans around

- Shape segmented assortment strategy using quantitative market analysis, informing how the business prioritizes categories and partners

- Own brand partner relationships at the executive level, leading high-stakes discussions on Buy Strategy, Sell In/Sell Out forecasts, and Supply Chain optimization

- Set the trading lever strategy (swap and return negotiations, EOL MD management, promotional planning) that the team executes to hit revenue and margin targets

- Own annual, quarterly, and weekly budget setting in partnership with Finance and Brand Growth leadership

- Lead the onboarding strategy for new partners, ensuring data-led forecasting and buying strategies set brands up for long-term success

- Drive operational excellence at scale , sponsoring innovation projects and team initiatives that improve inventory productivity and margin across the org

- Represent Beauty brands to senior leadership and the executive team, presenting in Inventory Health Reviews, Quarterly Business Reviews, and Assortment Reviews

- Build, develop, and lead a team of Associate Directors and Managers, setting goals and growing talent within the Beauty organization

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, or a related field

- Significant experience leading merchandising, buying, or inventory planning functions within the Beauty category

- Proven track record owning P&L-level outcomes tied to inventory, margin, and revenue

- Outstanding analytical and data management skills, with the ability to translate data into executive-level decisions

- Strong track record building and scaling high-performing teams

- Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership and executive audiences

- High ethical standards

- Management consulting experience a plus

Benefits:

- Unlimited PTO

- Paid Holidays

- Onsite Fitness Center

- Company Paid Life Insurance

- Casual Dress Code

- Competitive Pay

- Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance

- 401(k) match

## Skills

### Required
- analytical skills
- data management
- communication skills
- leadership skills
- inventory planning
- merchandising
- buying

### Nice to have
- management consulting

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