Associate Director - Bakery & Coffee

Lotus's (Bueng Kum)

Bueng Kum

Bangkok, Thailand

At Lotus's, we get up every morning and questioned ourselves daily on how we can serve our customers better. Lotus’s is an omni-channel retailer in Thailand, with a commitment to providing great quality products at affordable prices, while doing good things for our customers, colleagues, and communities. We serve customers through our network of more than 2,000 stores nationwide and online platforms, with more than 10.8 transactions made per week. We strive to cater to the ever-changing lifestyles of our customers, with a goal to deliver convenience and a seamless shopping experience anywhere anytime.

About this position

The Associate Director - Bakery & Coffee is responsible for managing and developing the Commercial Fresh Food (Bakery Business Development) while ensuring financial results meet targets and aligning strategies with the company's vision.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for managing and developing Commercial Fresh Food (Bakery Business Development). Manage financial results of Bakery Business Development (sales and operating income). Ensure the results achieve target. Conduct financial performance review Month-to-date, Year-To-Date of own areas. Drive long-term and short-term commercial strategic plan for Bakery Business Development that aligned to company vision, strategic direction in order to drive revenue target
• Liaise closely with internal sales/operations team and relevant support functions in order to drive strategy and revenue goal and external customers to ensure the value of their money. Support Marketing, Commercial Operations, Managed Markets, and Sales in supplier selection and management. Responsible for development and execution of category plans for assigned categories.
• Set Strategic Direction for assigned cross-functional sourcing programs through collaborative development of Strategic Sourcing initiatives and Category Plans. Lead cross-functional sourcing teams.
• Review and drive Bakery Business Development activities that lead business outcomes and enhance strategic partnership with external customers and top suppliers, annual promotion plan, sales gap recovery action plan, special events, etc.
• Determine innovation resolutions to serve customers’ needs, market advantages, market competitiveness and sales recovery that make profitable Bakery Business Development revenue opportunity
• Formulate price policy and price structure by considering relevant factors and ensure of proper implementation to ensure market competitiveness
• Lead Bakery Business Development assortment strategic actions, conduct annual review and the implementation for new store, new product, core product for store type, item performance review, etc.
• Act as a Subject Matter Expert for strategic sourcing and contract review and negotiation in assigned categories. To ensure that the variety and quality of Bakery product development are to the highest standards of quality, locally sourced, and seasonal in nature
• Identify sourcing best practices and collaborate with cross functional team members to ensure practices are applied. Determine key metrics for supplier performance management and facilitate quarterly reviews with stakeholders.
• Translate and cascade annual budget into steps of actions to achieve. Enroll and ensure understanding of each team members’ accountabilities and timely result updates; Operations and Commercial, Store Format, by customer types, by product group, by sub group.
• Update and communications of tasks and results, agreed steps of actions, communication to other teams, deployment of execution. Meeting with Store General Managers/ Assistant Store General Managers and communicate business direction & achievement, familiarize participants with new products and updated business operations.
• Ensure the execution of People development framework and relevant matters that build substantial functions. Develop people/team, motive, coach and build team capability to be able to deliver results

Requirements

• Bachelor