Job Description

Regional Database Specialist

Profile

Sephora is a global leader in omni channel beauty retailing, and a division of LVMH – Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. At Sephora, we stand together and we stand for something more. For empowerment, for exploration, for the opportunity to impact people’s lives through the unlimited power of beauty. We successfully operate more than three thousand points of sale across Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia, and together we aim to animate the most loved beauty community in the world.
Here in Asia, our teams run omni-channel businesses in 11 markets across the region, in addition to cross-border e-commerce to several more. Our success is built on innovation, a unique product portfolio, market leading digital capability, and our unique customer experience. With ambitious growth plans we are always looking for talented people who aspire to build businesses and develop themselves. Sparked by energy and excitement, our passion is contagious. We are united by a common goal – to reimagine the future of beauty.
Sephora SEA is looking to reinforce its Data Base Team by recruiting a Database Specialist to manage product information and set-ups across its Information Systems.
Missions and Responsibilities
The Data Base Specialist has the responsibility to ensure product data availability, accuracy, and cleanliness through its lifecycle to support business processes and data analysis needs.
To achieve this, he / she works closely with teams in charge of managing Sephora product offer (Category managers either at Regional level or in countries, merchandising team), teams in charge of products procurement (Demand Planners and Countries Supply Chain Managers), as well as with the Global Sephora Corporate Data Base team based in France.
Key Tasks:

• Managing product database (goods for Sale, marketing products like samples, Gratuities…) for all Sephora SEA retail and Digital entities: product creation, lifecycle updates such as end of life / discontinuation, supplier information, pricing, etc.
• Maintains data integrity, ensuring that all data are updated in accordance with procedures and guidelines. Validates data provided by Category Teams and reject inaccurate / incomplete information.
• Manages product assortment in stores to ensure efficient replenishment of stores; he / she ensures that set-up is correct for newness items and that further assortment changes are properly updated.
• Provides a control function to ensure data accuracy, consistency and cleanliness on both new items and existing catalogue.
• Interrogates and reports on the data
• Communicates updated information, catalogues and analyses results regularly and on an ad-hoc basis
• In a team of 3, he / she takes responsibility on some countries, and act as a backup of the other Data Base specialist.

Performance measurements

• Data accuracy (availability, accessibility, consistency, usability)
• Compliance with data management standards, aligned with regulatory standards
• Meeting and completion of activities within deadlines

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Business, Operations Management or Supply Chain.
• No experience required, however 1-2 years of experience in Supply Chain/ relevant field related to data will be beneficial.
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal.

Key competencies

• Analytical skills
  • Reliable in data analysis
  • Usage of Excel, SAP system experience is a plus
• Strong interpersonal & communication skills
  • Able to work across functional areas and levels of the organization and to interact at distance
  • Strong verbal and written communication
• Attitude & mindset
  • Rigorous and meticulous
  • Self-starter and autonomous
  • Organized, meeting deadlines
• Highly adaptable and flexible to accept new ideas, people and procedures
• Ability to work under pressure

Working relationships

• Retail Category managers in Regional Head Office and in countries
• Space Planning Team
• Regulatory Team
• Digital Category managers
• South East Asia Supply Chain
• Sephora Central Data Base and Central Category teams (based in France)
• Stores

Reporting lines

• Reports to Database Team Leader

When joining Sephora, you join the fastest growing and most innovative omnichannel retailer in South East Asia. As part of LVMH, (www.lvmh.com/group), we provide an unparalleled combination of resources, scale, and autonomy to our employees.
Sephora SEA was created through the combination of the Sephora's retail business in South East Asia and Luxola, a Singaporean start-up that broke new frontiers in ecommerce regionally. We proudly maintain an entrepreneurial and technology-focused culture, with all our capabilities built in-house – a rarity in this region.
The data is definitive: diversity leads to better teams, better performance, and better results. Consequently, we actively seek to hire employees of all genders, backgrounds, and experiences. We provide our employees with a unique opportunity to take on senior responsibilities, accelerate their career path, and impact the business of beauty across the world.