Key Responsibility

• Ensure my category has a long term customer led plan based on Category Role and Strategy Driving Underlying Sales
  • Know who are our strategic customers and how they shop with us
  • Clear understanding of optimum space required and flow and adjacency
  • Range product to maximize return on space
  • Understanding Pricing Strategy and Price Structure to maximize range performance
  • Understand distribution opportunity (format) for own category
  • Simplify execution plan for store operation

• Able to build brand to ensure high competitiveness and differentiation of own category
  • Know brand and product positions in your category and spot opportunity
  • Understand how to build a good brand and register into customer mind
  • Product development process, and roles of support functions
  • Pick right vendor and work closely as business partner to grow business
  • How to promote the brand in Lotus’s; brief your communication for media

• Managing supplier performance, identifying and assessing potential new suppliers as well as building long term supplier relationships
  • Manage small vendor (SME)
  • Manage Big, FMCG, Big Brand vendor
  • Manage Own Import
  • Understand well vendor KPIs or concerns; communicate well what we want concerns and turn to win-win position

• Conduct regular store (and website visits) to understand how my ranges have landed in store, keeping abreast of competitor and category developments to inform future range development

• Know about other support functions and how to work best as a team
  • Merchandise Planner/ Supply Chain/ SRD/ Support Office/ Commercial in formats

• Forecasting and managing my budgets effectively, always being cost conscious

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years in Commercial buying experiences with Retail/ Dynamic Business
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in any related fields
• Extensive buying experience in Grocery/Packaged Food especially Cooking Oil and Sauce would be a BIG PLUS.

Lotus's
Ek-Chai Distribution System Co., Ltd.
Buengkum, Bangkok 10230, Thailand

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