E-Commerce Merchandising Specialist

Primer Group of Companies; Manila; On-site; PHP 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Job summary

Primer Group of Companies seeks a Merchandising Supervisor/Category Buyer (E-Commerce) to drive a balanced, profitable merchandise program. The role focuses on effective buying, allocation, and inventory management across channels with a strong emphasis on store performance and KPI-driven decisions.

The candidate will analyze stock movement, coordinate replenishment, and support the Merchandising Manager with insights and reports.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in business management or related field.
• At least 3 years of experience in merchandising, marketing, and retail business.

Responsibilities

• Supports Merchandising Supervisor in maintaining effective merchandising operations aligned with overall strategy.
• Sets up and maintains seasonal store grading and reviews cost to fill.
• Analyzes stock movement, replenishment, and door performance to optimize profitability.
• Manages initial merchandise allocation to stores based on channel plan.
• Monitors sell-through, aging stock, and relevance per door and product category.
• Prepares KPI reports and analyzes trends for the BU/team cluster.
• Builds product knowledge through competitor and market intelligence.

Skills

Merchandising

Category buying

Inventory management

Data analysis

Forecasting

Channel E-Commerce

Store performance

Reporting

People management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, or related

Tools

OMNI Channel systems

Job description

The Merchandising Supervisor/Category Buyer (E-Commerce) maintains a commercially balanced and evolving merchandise program; aims to achieve profitability and hastened merchandise movement through effective buying and inventory management.

Key responsibilities

• Supports Merchandising Supervisor (Channel) in maintaining effective and efficient merchandising operations ensuring distribution strategies tie in with overall merchandise strategies
  

  Merchandise Planning and Buying

  • Setting up and maintenance of Seasonal Store Grading;

  • Review and maintenance of Cost to Fill;

  • Supports Merchandising Manager through reports and analysis of key metrics for door performance, stock movement and replenishment.

  Allocation and Replenishment

  • Processes initial merchandise allocation for delivery to stores based on channel distribution plan provided by Merchandiser;

  • Analyzes performance by store by product, taking appropriate actions to ensure stock movement and replenishment results in improved sell through, inventory cover and aging by store;

  • Monitors upcoming deliveries and ensures allocation plans are reflective of current demand and trends;

  • Understands what products work where and providing feedback to Brand Merchandiser for reorders, changes in ordering patterns, growth areas;

  • Creates SKU listing in online and OMNI Channels (PUS/BIU, PUS/BSU).

  Inventory Management

  • Performs stock balancing as necessary to ensure correct inventory level and product mix per door per category considering consumer profile, market demand and corresponding styles, pricing, and sizing;

  • Identifies growth or exit doors for brands / collections / products and implements stock increase or decrease to support strategy;

  • Monitors sell through of collections / products at store level, aging and Reg vs MD in doors and recommends strategies to bring KPIs to profitable levels;

  • Recommends to Brand/Merchandising slow-moving stocks needed to be moved.

  Monitoring and Assessment

  • Prepares channel / door related reports and provides the Channel Merchandising Head (or Merchandising Manager ) with KPI trends, geographical trading trends, analysis and insights for the BU / team cluster;

  • Identifies replenishment and distribution trends and common issues for the BU / team cluster and takes appropriate action to improve.

  Market Intelligence

  • Builds on product knowledge and category expertise through familiarization with competitor and complement brands’ product ranges, pricing and positioning;

  • Conducts regular store visits and validates flow of merchandise strategy from back-end to front-end and considers appropriate actions to improve;

  • Builds on customer, market and competitor intelligence; establishing similarities and differences in doors per grading band, size or area.

  People Management

  • Works closely with Merchandise Head on workload of merchandise team and recommends necessary prioritization;

  • Works with door teams and coaches them on replenishment trends and product mixes.

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Entrepreneurship, Marketing, or any related course.

• At least three (3) years work experience in merchandising, marketing, and retail business.

• Willing to work full-time on a flexible on-site schedule in Malate, Manila.