Assistant Merchandising Manager (Electronics)

Responsibilities

• Identify suppliers who can co-develop products
• Cooperate and maintain good relationship with suppliers who are reliable in providing products.
• Commit to all agreements made with the suppliers (i.e. invoice control arrangements, price differences), all of which are subject to a written contract or confirmation
• Conduct market research and analysis to identify products that can be developed and adopted.
• Coordinate with concerned Director, Sr. Buyer and Buyers to identify existing shelf-products that are sellable and can generate desired sales and profits if developed and marketed as Fresh Food / Dry Food Products
• Monitor the performance of Non-Food Products, identify root causes of shortfall and plan actions to improve performance
• Work with Marketing team to develop new launch activity in stores to drive sales
• Ensure that products being developed match or better quality than benchmarks and priced lower than the benchmark according to brand positioning.
• Work with Marketing team to produce an effective Makro Mail Program, to achieve sales budget and profit targets.
• Feedback market information, competition information, projects, sales and profit results to line manager and supported team
• Give all necessary information and documents (i.e. article, supplier, ordering, promotions) to the stores
• Make regular store visits to detect operational problems and follows-up on product quality and presentation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree of graduate
• Prefer at least 2 years experience in merchandising, preferably in non-food category
• Proficient in computer literacy and good computer skills especially MS Excel and Power Point
• Proactive, initiative, adaptability/ flexibility, analyst and good interpersonal skills
• English Proficiency Skill is required