Manager, Purchasing - Pharmacy

Lotus's

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.

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Job function: Supply Chain

Industries: Retail and Wholesale

About this position

The Manager, Purchasing - Pharmacy is responsible for leading marketing strategies, managing product assortments, and optimizing store displays to enhance customer engagement and sales while maintaining supplier relationships and ensuring alignment with various functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead Below-the-line marketing element mixes on assortment, pricing strategy, distribution and in-store communication.
• Always manage and seek opportunity to differentiate my own category. Keep update market trends, and customer feedback to identify opportunities for product assortment improvements to reach targeted budget
• Understand store clustering and apply range, program to match with that, Review and update product by cluster and Range by cluster in own category to align with customer behavior, Store location and related market insight.
• Improve the variety of space optimization and display range of each store cluster to increase product availability and also maximizing the return of profit regarding to space using. Propose idea to improve product display to attract customer.
• Working with store managers and design team to create visually appealing displays and layouts based on Regulation guidelines that drive customer engagement and sales.
• Maximize delivery of sales and profit and trends to forecast demand, determining optimal stock levels, and planning merchandise assortments. Finding solutions to close performance gaps with target
• Building and maintaining relationships with suppliers and negotiating terms to ensure timely delivery and favorable pricing.
• Oversee other Income management from trade and in-store activity with integrity and accuracy.
• Work closely with other functions such as Customer, Trade Plan, Supply Chain, and Store Operations to ensure alignment and support E2E process and execution at store operation.

Requirements

• 3-5 years’ working experience in category / brand management especially in Healthcare or Pharmacy categories
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in any related fields (Pharmacist would be preferred)
• Strong Numerical and analytical skill and experience in extract report from Microsoft power BI is much preferred
• Healthcare Trend, Regulation, Consumer & Shopper Insight, Category Management, Trade Understanding.
• Healthcare Product knowledge and Market Trend
• Regulation knowledge
• Report preparation and data analysis skill : Excel (Expert level)
• Negotiation and Communication Skill
• Product range and trade planning
• Presentation, Communication and team player skill
• Customer strategy; Channel strategy, Sales strategy development, Perform product planning
• Leadership skill and attribute
• Growth Mindset
• Entrepreneurial-ship mindset
• Situation Leadership skill
• Delegation skill
• Agility and resilience
• Initiative and creative thinking

Benefits

Huneety A.I Salary Estimate

60,000 - 150,000 THB per month