Assistant Category Manager, Beauty Business

Watsons Philippines; Philippines; On-site; PHP 350,000 - 550,000; Full time

Job summary

Watsons Philippines is seeking a category and promotions specialist responsible for executing online and offline category plans to drive growth in sales, margins, and profitability. The role focuses on trade promotions, supplier negotiations, maintaining product range, and ensuring process compliance across our business platforms.

You will conduct regular alignment meetings with suppliers, drive category development, and manage stock levels to support promotions.

Responsibilities

• 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.

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.