Assistant Category Manager, Beauty Business

Watsons Philippines; Pasay; On-site; PHP 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Watsons Philippines is seeking a category planning professional to drive growth by executing online and offline category plans. You will manage trade promotions, supplier negotiations, and product assortment while ensuring process compliance and strong market analysis.

The role emphasizes aligning with suppliers, maintaining store-level availability, and delivering profitable growth across all platforms we operate.

Qualifications

• 100% completion of all required agreements, documentation, and/or processes (TTA, promotions) according to agreed timelines.
• Conduct regular alignment meetings with suppliers to review promotions, pricing, stock management and other relevant initiatives across all the business platforms we operate.
• Category/Range Development and achieving targets based on the agreement and ensure range assortment is available at the store level.

Responsibilities

• Inventory management, achieving targets for stock weeks cover and slow moving stocks, and ensuring sufficient stocks during promotions.
• Maintain assortment availability at store level across all channels.
• Trade promotions and supplier negotiations to drive growth and profitability.

Job description

Responsible for smooth execution of the developed online and offline category plans to bring positive growth in sales, margins and profitability through: (1) trade promotions and activities, (2) supplier negotiations, (3) maintain product range assortment, (4) process compliance, (5) market, customer and competition analysis, and (6) basic offline and online merchandising.

This role focuses on:

• 100% completion of all required agreements, documentation, and/or processes (TTA, promotions) according to agreed timelines.
• Conducting regular alignment meeting with suppliers to review promotions, pricing, stock management and other relevant initiatives across all the business platforms we operate.
• Category/Range Development and achieving targets based on the agreement and ensure range assortment is available at the store level.
• Inventory Management, achieving targets for stock weeks cover and slow moving stocks, and ensuring sufficient stocks during promotions.