- Building and maintaining good business partnership with brand market leader/suppliers via right wiring & business strategy alignment to maximise sales support.
- Negotiating trading term with suppliers to increase the back-end rebates and profit to company.
- New product listing and sourcing.
- Drive other operating income by promoting instore advertising space & trade marketing display to suppliers.
- Managing the overall performance of the categories.
- Discussing with supplier to execute the monthly & seasonal promotion plan and providing the guidance and requirement of the sales mechanic to Marketing department.
- Leading the overall coordination of promotion campaign on behalf of the department.
- Supporting Operation by solving the daily operation issues that raised to HQ through Symple reporting.
- Overseeing the overall communication plan with Operation to ensure smooth execution and compliance base on the needs of the merchandising strategy.
- Supporting the stock allocation to new stores expansion planning and store revamp.
- Sales forecasting and stock purchase by control the overall stock turnover days (both warehouse & stores) to ensure efficient supply chain and minimise liquidity risk.
- Ensuring optimum supply from supplier to minimise sales loss of opportunity.
- Analysing category, promotion, item & supplier sales performance, and report to superior.
- Keeping barest of product pricing in the market and competitor sales activities to ensure product competitiveness to attract customers.
- Maintaining the data, upkeeping the supplier and product information in POS system.
- Brief operation & Marketing to ensure the best store merchandising practise by setting the guidelines & execution of clean store policy.
- Support the sales development of online sales business unit such as GrabMart and the E-commerce platform.
- Act as the liaison person for any arising operation issues from supplier with HQ department. For example, B2B subscription & invoicing process.
- Ensuring the full compliance of the internal department of the department SOP especially in stock purchase policy
- Acts in a pivotal role for teams and internal functions to co-ordinate projects with other departments.