Description
Part-Time Salary: $42,000 - $45,000 (3 Days per week)
Overview
The Salon People – Aveda Southeast Powered by the Salon People, based in St. Petersburg, Florida is seeking a Hair Color Specialist to join our team in Charlotte, North Carolina! Our organization’s mission is to Create Chain Reactions of Care and are looking for someone who has the passion to Inspire, Educate, Consult, and Coach Aveda Stylists throughout North Carolina (and other states at times) with Care.
The role of the Hair Color Specialist is to support the growth of the Hair Color business by increasing artist confidence, technical consistency, consultation excellence, and Aveda Hair Color adoption within the salon network. The Hair Color Specialist serves as a technical growth partner working alongside the Sr. Hair Color Manager, Hair Color Manager and Salon Development Partners to support salons through in-salon coaching, technical education, displacement opportunities, and ongoing Hair Color development.
This role primarily focuses on Hair Color displacement opportunities by helping identify salons and artists currently utilizing competitive Hair Color systems and supporting strategic conversion plans that build confidence and increase adoption of Aveda Hair Color. At the center of the role is helping artists feel supported, technically confident, and proud to utilize Aveda Hair Color behind the chair.
About the Company: As a company, we are Hair Stylist (Aveda Artist) Centered! We believe in the power of the Aveda Artist, and it is our role to inspire, educate, and coach, to support them to ensure that their guest experiences are second to none and their guests look and feel better after encountering them! We understand that our salon teams are our primary customer. When our salon teams succeed, we succeed right behind them.
In our core business, we offer our salons tools and best practices to grow and sustain themselves as small business owners and to develop their teams to their full potential. We are aligned with AVEDA’s mission of ethical and sustainable business practices, and we share Aveda’s exceptional standards of quality products, treatments, and guest care. Be part of an entrepreneurial, thriving organization that offers career growth opportunities for high-performing team members.
Why We Love It Here
At Aveda Southeast powered by the Salon People, we love to create chain reactions of care. If you love enriching the lives of those you serve by bringing life, love, beauty, and wellness to every relationship you build, every service you provide, and every person you touch, you will love it too.
Job Description, Responsibilities & Benefits
Primary Responsibilities
· Hair Color Displacement & Conversion Support
· In-Salon Technical Coaching
· Partnership & Field Support
· Artist Confidence & Development
· Develop Confident, Successful In-Salon Color Coaches
· Build Confidence & Brand Pride in Salon Teams
Key Performance Indicators
· Hair Color conversion progression: Displacement opportunity pipeline, conversions completed and more in line working toward conversion
· Salon Hair Color sales growth: Hair Color usage & replenishment consistency and growth, indicated by growth in hair color sales
· Artist confidence, engagement, and retention improvement
· Artists’ consultation confidence improvement
· Technical coaching completion
· In-Salon Color Coach Developed
· Increase in Add-On treatments, like Botanical Repair
Benefits
· Medical, Dental & Vision and other Benefits.
· Employer Paid and Voluntary Life Insurance
· 401k Plan
· FSA Plans Voluntary Contribution (Health & Childcare)
· Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
· Paid Holidays
· Other Paid Time Off
· Competitive Pay & Car Allowance
· Reduced product price for personal use.
· Adjusted Summer Hours on Fridays (extra perk, based on needs of the company – not part of standard benefits package)
Equal Opportunity Employer
All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital or family status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.
Requirements
Job Requirements & Our Guiding Principles
General Requirements & Minimum Qualifications:
· Ability to WOW and inspire stylists!
· Actively engaged in Social Media platforms
· Licensed cosmetologist (existing FL license) with a minimum of 5 years’ industry experience
· Charismatic individual with strong negotiation and communication talents
· Superior technical hairdressing
· Strong facilitation, coaching, and leadership skills
· Must live in Charlotte, NC
· Ability to travel extensively (80% + of time, primarily in the field with local and around the state travel, with occasional travel to other states in the Southeast)
· Many Sundays may be required for education, as this is a day salons are typically closed
· Experience with other major competitive color brands (Loreal, Redken, etc.)
· Superior communication and networking skills that leads to buy-in and following from others.
· Ability to analyze our objectives and propose a solution that benefits both the brand and the salons utilizing the Winning Pyramid.
· Committed to providing outstanding Education.
· Strong organizational and time management skills
· Excellent communication and organization skills.
· Computer literate, business writing and communication skills
· Flexible and when needed working some weekends and evenings
· Ability to adhere to budgets, for all field training activity and T&E
· Ability to be flexible, accept change, and be a team player.
· Knowledge of Aveda products and experience in the Aveda network a plus
· Experience with Sales Force a plus
· Ability to lift up to 40 pounds
Personal Traits Needed:
· Serves from The Heart
· Charismatic and loves to educate and build relationships
· Highly Accountable with High Integrity
· Loves the Hair Industry & the Aveda Brand
· Possesses strong training and presentation skills
· Loves to interact with others
· A Natural Connector
· Collaborative
· Innovative
Our Guiding Principles
These Principles are a set of Values that establish our framework for expected behavior and decision making.
1. At our Core, we embody Integrity, Quality, and Ownership
2. We have a “Standard of Excellence” with everything we touch and are intentional with everything we do. Our goal is to be the best representation of Aveda on the Planet.
3. We are kind, caring, and loving.
4. We serve from the heart.
5. We put other people first.
6. We all do windows.
7. We are highly accountable, and in it to win it!
8. We do what we say, and we say what we do.
9. We are agile and flexible.
10. We fail faster to succeed sooner.
11. We honor diversity and mutual respect.
12. We may not always be in agreement, but we are always in alignment.
13. We are working toward the Ultimate Life Balance - #Selfcare
14. Relationships are at the heart of everything we do.
A “Winning Formula” that starts with YOU!
Our Success is Your Success. When YOU succeed, we succeed right behind YOU!
15. We Celebrate, Celebrate, Celebrate!