Assistant Manager, Buying - Petaling Jaya, Malaysia - adidas

Description

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role is responsible for supporting Franchise business by implementing all day-to-day trading activities of the department by reviewing buy and work closely with external franchise's buyer & In-season Trading (IST) person to focus upon delivering of planned sales, margin and terminal stock objectives.

This includes:

• Implementation of Merchandising Country Strategy
• Execution of the Merchandising End-to-End (E2E) process
• Provide guidance for the buying strategy/ buy volume/assortment planning for franchise stores
• Providing relevant feedback to Country Category Marketing /OMNI Channel

Key Responsibilities:

• Driving initiatives and guide on the buy for the franchise stores, lead the sell-in process with Franchise Partners to ensure best possible store performance and ensure compliance with company standards
• Support the implementation of key buy strategic priorities in the country across FRS stores
• Support Buying Manager to plan & buy according to the OTB for all franchise doors.
• Drive and achieve Benchmarks and KPIs on productivity and sell-through
• Build the right product mix based on the share of business of store formats, product categories, store types, age and gender mix for FRS.
• Review and implement the right buying analysis by categories for FRS.
• Support FRS partner to ensure their sell-in buy is appropriate by giving them the right range recommendation per store based on APAC/SEA seasonal strategies.
• Provide guidance to FRS to ensure that all merchandising strategies and principles are executed timely and correctly.
• Ensure orders are placed accurately and on-time for FRS.
• Work closely with external franchise's buyer, In-season Trading (IST) key person to ensure product grading and product option plan are in line with space management guideline (pre-season) for FRS.
• Work closely with IST key person/FRS partner's buyer in monitoring and ensure that the Best Sellers are fully replenished on a weekly basis.
• Compile each store's capacity plan for reference during the Buying process.
• Ensure in-season chase models (SPEED, In-Season-Creation and Planned-Responsiveness) are well managed to make sure inventory is optimal for FRS.
• Follow FRS store-visit schedule to achieve an expected amount of time spent in the stores.

Key Relationships:

• Internal: Country Franchise Team, Country Category Marketing/OMNI Channel, Brand Communication, VM, Country Finance
• External : Franchise Partner

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :

Competencies

• Datamining & Presentation skills
• Strong analytical mind set - detail and numbers oriented
• Excel/computer skills
• Business Acumen & problem solving skills
• Category know how - products, ranges, market trends
• Planning & Organizing
• Manage Relationships and diversity
• Big picture thinking
• Process and system understanding
• Learning and self-development
• Collaboration & Influencing skills
• Ability to multitask