Merchandising Manager - Personal Care (feminine care) - East - S$5000

Responsibilities

• Drive and achieve category sales, gross profit, income goals and objectives of assigned categories through monitoring trends within the market segments; developing strategies to grow the market share of assigned categories; and to plan strategies to counter competition.
• Develop and implement a good inventory management process so that there is an optimum product mix that focuses on customers’ needs and the process achieves shrinkage reduction objective.
• Develop and implement promotional plans that bring excitement and incremental sales to the stores.
• Develop and implement placement and planogram strategies that improve category turnover and positively influence customer shopping behavior.
• Oversee the implementation of category strategies as well as the development of the private label or house brand products.
• Build strong relationships with business partners and stay well-informed of consumer, market and industry trends.
• Work in a dynamic environment and regularly review market and industry trends to drive appeal of merchandise mix to target customers.
• Develop and implement a competitive pricing strategy that delivers value to our customers.
• Establish collaborative retailer/supplier relationships to maximize income/terms/discounts to improve sales and profitability of category.
• Develop Monthly Category Analysis Report of the assigned categories.
• Manage and evaluate promotion effectiveness to achieve maximum profitability for the categories.