Trading Officer

Watson's Personal Care Stores Sdn. Bhd.; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 39,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

Watsons Malaysia is seeking a Merchandising Assistant to support Deputy Manager/Category Manager in weekly and monthly promotion planning and category strategy. The role requires collaboration with Marketing and Supply Chain on stock commitments, data entry on listings, and maintaining strong supplier relationships for smooth operations in the Health category.

The ideal candidate holds a Bachelor's in Business Management with 1–2 years of merchandising experience and excels in stakeholder

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in Business Management or equivalent within FMCG Health & Beauty Industry.
• 1–2 years merchandising experience preferred.
• Strong focus on internal stakeholder engagement with Supply Chain & Marketing.
• Good negotiation, communication, and analytical skills.
• Able to work with minimum supervision, handle stress, be a team player with good time management.

Responsibilities

• Assist Deputy Manager/Category Manager to prepare weekly and monthly promotion planning and category strategy planning, plus administrative duties.
• Collaborate with Marketing or Supply Chain on stock commitment and promotion planning.
• Establish and maintain good relationships with suppliers to ensure smooth operations and customer satisfaction.
• Data entry on listings and follow up with internal and external parties.
• Provide full support to direct and indirect superiors.
• Role focused on Health category.

Skills

Negotiation

Communication

Analytical skills

Commercial sense

Stakeholder engagement

Time management

Team player

Stress management

Education

Bachelor Degree in Business Management

Job description

To assist Deputy Manager/ Category Manager to prepare weekly, monthly promotion planning & category strategy planning, any administrative duties.

Establish collaborative relationship with other department such as. Marketing or Supply Chain on stock commitment and promotion planning.

Establishing and maintaining a good relationship with our suppliers and ensuring smooth running of operations to achieve total customer satisfaction.

Data entry on listings

Follow up with internal and external parties.

To provide full support to direct and indirect superior.

This will be for the health category

Job Requirement

Bachelor Degree in Business Management or equivalent within FMCG Health & Beauty Industry.

Preferable with 1-2 years working experience in Merchandising experience will be added advantage.

Strong focus on internal stakeholder engagement within Supply Chain & Marketing Department.

Good negotiation & communication skills, good commercial sense and analytical skills.

Able to work with minimum supervision and handle stress, a team player with good time management skills.

About Us

Watsons Malaysia is part of AS Watsons Group, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer operating over 16,000 stores under 12 retail brands in 28 markets, with over 130,000 employees worldwide. For the fiscal year 2022, AS Watsons Group recorded revenue of US$22 billion. Every year, we are serving over 5.5 billion shoppers via our O+O (Offline plus Online) technology-enabled platforms.

Watsons Malaysia is the leading health and beauty retailer with more than 650 Watsons stores and growing in the country serving the needs of all Malaysians. Watsons continues to inspire our customers to enjoy life to the fullest and set the standards in the health, wellness, and beauty market, providing personalised advice in health, beauty, and personal care on top of its market-leading product ranges, making customers LOOK GOOD, DO GOOD, FEEL GREAT every day.

Since 2009, Watsons has been the No.1 pharmacy/drugstore brand in Asia Pacific for the 13th year running*. On top of that, Watsons Malaysia won Platinum Award for the Best in Retail Category 2022 by Putra Brands Award, a premier and only brand award in Malaysia voted by Malaysian consumers. Watsons Malaysia is also the No. 1 Retailer Most Preferred Graduates Employers to Work for by Talentbank Graduates' Choice Award 2022.

*Campaign Asia-Pacific “Asia’s Top 1000 Bands online study over 8,000 respondents across 14 markets in Asia Pacific region”.

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Watsons Pharmacy has been settled up over 25 years, and relocated to the Health Centre about May 1999 years ago. Our locality in central London with close approximate to London China Town, we have established ourselves as the main local pharmacy centre for the increasing Chinese community around London.

Excellence medical service is build upon excellent communication skills. Because our staffs are fluent in English as well as more than one Chinese language, the Chinese and local communities prefer us rather than other pharmacies.

In order to meet our commitment to strive for a better health care for the community, we will continue to improve our medical service and establish ourselves as the main pharmacy around the area.

Watsons Pharmacy has been settled up over 25 years, and relocated to the Health Centre about May 1999 years ago. Our locality in central London with close approximate to London China Town, we have established ourselves as the main local pharmacy centre for the increasing Chinese community around London.

Excellence medical service is build upon excellent communication skills. Because our staffs are fluent in English as well as more than one Chinese language, the Chinese and local communities prefer us rather than other pharmacies.

In order to meet our commitment to strive for a better health care for the community, we will continue to improve our medical service and establish ourselves as the main pharmacy around the area.