Key Responsibility:

• Managing own category to reach yearly targeted budget with cost consciousness
  • Keep tracking daily, weekly and monthly sales performance and planning for strategy to achieved sales target
  • Analyzing for the opportunity to gain more profit through Sale & Margin simulation
  • Increasing customer penetration by promotion strategy, new product development and low price product
  • Review product range and analyzing gap with customer behavior to improve the variety of Optimizing space and display range to increase product availability and also maximizing the return of profit regarding to space using
  • Initialing Pricing Strategy and Price Structure to maximize range performance
• Ensuring high competitiveness and differentiation of my own category
  • Being professional in brand and product positions within my category and spotting the opportunity
  • Initialing New Product Development to be on plan and also has smooth execution with cross functional team
  • Sourcing reasonable price, high quality product and trustworthy vendor, working closely with them as business partner for business growth
  • Promoting product’s brand in Lotus’s. Briefing and Reviewing the media used for communication with person in charge
• Managing vendor’s performance, identifying and assessing potential new venders as well as building long term relationship with currently available venders. Including understand venders target, KPI and any concerns to bring the win-win negotiation scenario.
• Conducting regular store (and website, application visits), keeping monitor competitors and develop my own category to turn it into future range development

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Food Science, Food Technology or any related fields.
• A minimum of 5 years Commercial buying experience with retail business with having direct experience in Fresh Processed Food especially Bakery & Delicatessen would be a BIG PLUS.
• Influencing and negotiation
• Stakeholder Management
• Supplier Management
• Category management
• Data Analysis and Report preparation
• Range and trade planning
• Microsoft Excel
• Strong leadership skill and high resilience
• Category Management and Commercial Acumen as well as developing Category Strategy
• Leading a team and understanding of country and global supply chain products
• Product Development