merchandising manager - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia - myNEWS

    myNEWS
    myNEWS Petaling Jaya, Malaysia

    2 weeks ago

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  • Building and maintaining good business partnership with brand market leader/suppliers via right wiring & business strategy alignment to maximise sales support.
  • Negotiating trading term with suppliers to increase the back-end rebates and profit to company.
  • New product listing and sourcing.
  • Drive other operating income by promoting instore advertising space & trade marketing display to suppliers.
  • Managing the overall performance of the categories.
  • Discussing with supplier to execute the monthly & seasonal promotion plan and providing the guidance and requirement of the sales mechanic to Marketing department.
  • Leading the overall coordination of promotion campaign on behalf of the department.
  • Supporting Operation by solving the daily operation issues that raised to HQ through Symple reporting.
  • Overseeing the overall communication plan with Operation to ensure smooth execution and compliance base on the needs of the merchandising strategy.
  • Supporting the stock allocation to new stores expansion planning and store revamp.
  • Sales forecasting and stock purchase by control the overall stock turnover days (both warehouse & stores) to ensure efficient supply chain and minimise liquidity risk.
  • Ensuring optimum supply from supplier to minimise sales loss of opportunity.
  • Analysing category, promotion, item & supplier sales performance, and report to superior.
  • Keeping barest of product pricing in the market and competitor sales activities to ensure product competitiveness to attract customers.
  • Maintaining the data, upkeeping the supplier and product information in POS system.
  • Brief operation & Marketing to ensure the best store merchandising practise by setting the guidelines & execution of clean store policy.
  • Support the sales development of online sales business unit such as GrabMart and the E-commerce platform.
  • Act as the liaison person for any arising operation issues from supplier with HQ department. For example, B2B subscription & invoicing process.
  • Ensuring the full compliance of the internal department of the department SOP especially in stock purchase policy
  • Acts in a pivotal role for teams and internal functions to co-ordinate projects with other departments.
  • Min 5 year(s) of working experience in merchandising/ retail & FMCG
  • Good communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Analytical skills
  • Willing to travel to stores
  • Familiar with FMCG market knowledge
  • Supply Chain experience
  • Import/ export buying experience