Business Development Executive - Professional Hair

About This Position

Henkel Consumer Brands Hair Professional is a leading supplier in salon exclusive hair care products with its brand portfolio of Schwarzkopf Professional, Authentic Beauty Concept, Indola, Sexy Hair, Joico and Kenra. Holding leading market positions worldwide, its brand-name product business is continuously expanding. In this fast-moving sector, success depends on constant innovation and high-quality products. Are you ready to work in a challenging, but also glamorous and dynamic environment? If you share a passion for hair and beauty, this is the place to start your career.

An excellent opportunity has arisen for you to join as a Business Development Executive for the Indola brand, in the Wholesale channel. You will be responsible for creating & developing a customer base of Professional Hairdressers (Salons, Freelancers, Colleges etc) through new salon / freelancer business acquisition, commercial support, educational training & digital upskilling. Account managing of existing & New Customers whilst supporting the sales team achieving sales targets. This role will be covering the South West & M4 Corridor region.

What You´ll Do

• Collaborating with our Preferred Partners to win new business & drive sales out. Main objective to win New Permanent Colour Customers via Salon & Independent Hairdressers acquisition.
• Implement effective onboarding education for Salons whilst developing training opportunities within wholesale branches, appropriate venues, Hairdressing salons and Virtual & Digital platforms.
• Work closely with cross functional colleagues in Marketing, Education & Sales to develop & execute the customer plans.
• Ensure high quality retail merchandising of Indola & Schwarzkopf in store.
• To complete and maintain effective reports.
• To support Marketing initiatives, launches and promotional plans for all Indola (& Schwarzkopf Professional) Brands within the Wholesale sector.
• Building strong relationships with wholesaler store managers & other key personnel. E.g. Digital & Technical.
• Build a strong digital presence for the Indola brand (Instagram led) including content creation.
• Achieve KPIs set across commercial & educational areas of the role.
• Technical training and development of Preferred Partner sales teams at commercial meetings.
  
  

What makes you a good fit

• Commercial aptitude, with a Strong passion for the Professional Hairdressing Industry with experience & knowledge preferable.
• Require Strong hairdressing skills of NVQ level 2+.
• Excellent Presentation & Communication skills.
• High level of organisational skills & time management.
• Self-Motivated with Ambition to grow & succeed.
• Entrepreneurial attitude with a commercial focus, driven by Educational knowhow.
• Strong IT & Digital skills (including Instagram).
• Good communicator at all levels of business.
• Takes ownership & is solution oriented.
• Full / clean UK driving licence.
  
  

Some perks of joining Henkel

• Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
• Diverse national and international growth opportunities
• Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
• Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
• Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
• Performance bonus / incentives
• Competitive Pension & Life Assurance - Company contributes up to 10% of basic salary
• Annual Leave: 27 days plus 8 Bank Holidays
• Celebration vouchers
  
  

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.