Senior Buyer (Food - Non Food Product)

CJ MORE (Bang Rak, Bangkok City, Thailand)

Bangkok, Thailand

CJ MORE, one of the most popular Thai retailers. To establish itself apart from competitors, CJ MORE would launch a new business in 2020 under the theme "More Than a Supermarket." Being more than simply a supermarket and convenience store to fulfill all of consumers' needs and differentiate from other peers in the same market with our strong store brands such as Nine Beauty, Bao Cafe, Uno and A-Home. The firm is moving forward and growing its own retail brand to better serve its consumer groups, with the goal of becoming a public company in the future. CJ MORE is a unique iteration of the typical supermarket, providing a wide variety of products and services and consumer goods at reasonable prices. The company has expanded substantially over the last 18 years. There are now more than 1000 branches operational in over 42 provinces nationwide.

About this position

The Senior Buyer (Food - Non Food Product) is responsible for creating and developing innovative buyer strategies, driving category growth, and managing product selection while coordinating with various departments and suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Create and developing an innovative buyer strategy for the business.
• Drive category growth by developing departmental assortment strategies with respect to sub-category split, range plan, SKU Count, new vs. carryover, pricing, margin and retail pricing.
• Develop compelling merchandise assortments in partnership with utilize trend and competitive insights, build hindsight.
• Develop and coordinate the strategy and partnerships between the buyer department and the other department leaders including Inventory Planning, Marketing.
• Manage product selection to cope with company strategies and updated market trends.
• Coordinate with suppliers on the entire buyer process from negotiating trading terms and rebates program, competitive pricing, evaluating suppliers’ performance as well as developing suppliers’ network & long-term relationship.
• Plan and execute the regular and ad hoc promotional programs with suppliers’ support.
• Providing marketing supports to sales team in executing customer sales plan smoothly.
• Coordinate with replenishment team to ensure optimal product availability during promotional program launching.
• Deliver the profitability and incomes, stock inventory management.
• Analyze sales performance and assortment review on monthly basis by department.
• Compile reports and analysis for reviewing the effectiveness of promotional programs, pricing strategies, keeping abreast of marketing trends, and proposing business actions for Management review.
• Provide strategic advisory to the senior management team, taking corrective action, and reporting results.
• Manage, mentor, motivate and coach a team to deliver best term and move the business forward.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher in Business Administration, Economics, or related fields.
• At least 3 years working experience in buyer, category, product management or related fields.
• Experience in retail industry would be an advantage.
• Forecasting or demand planning knowledge including strong analytical problem solving skills.
• Capability to multitask and problem-solve in a fast-paced environment.
• Good leadership skills especially in collaboration, responsiveness, problem solving, and decision making.
• Strong negotiation skill with proactive, initiative, and work well under high pressure.
• Good command both written and spoken English.
• Computer literacy (Particularly in MS Excel).