Manager, Retail Business Planning

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 Manager, Retail Business Planning is responsible for driving business planning and strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with corporate strategies, and maximizing revenue through data-driven insights and stakeholder collaboration.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibility:
Business Planning
• Understand context of the business requirements to be able to provide insight analysis that is data driven to propose strategic options and make a sound recommendation.
• Conducting research to identify new markets, customer needs, identify risks and opportunities where applicable on the timely basis.
• Leading workshops to identify new concepts, breakthrough ideas leading to new business opportunities.
• Coordinating with the internal and external stakeholders to collect relevant data for further analysis and implement business opportunities and thereby maximize revenue.
• Screen potential business deals to ensure alignment with corporate strategy by analyzing market strategies, deal requirements, potential, and financial related issues i.e. evaluating options, resolving internal priorities, recommending equity investments.
• Explore and discover opportunities, and proposes potential business deals by contacting and connecting potential partners (internal and external).
• Communicate ideas and recommendation through presentation to senior managements and other stakeholders.
• Develop negotiating strategies and positions by studying integration of new venture with company strategies and operations; examining risks and potentials; estimating partners' needs and goals.
• Work closely with Busines Partner and Finance partner to build business model to assess growth and investment of strategic initiatives.

Strategic Planning and PMO
• Be the project champion on key strategic stream by helping BU leader to set up the project in development phase, set governing body, and help facilitate key governance meeting.
• Develop, design, and consolidate tracking of relevant financial/business KPIs to be able to clearly measure performance of the business deliverables and give insightful view to senior management.
• Project manage and/or facilitate assigned initiatives, ensuring alignment of initiatives to corporate-level strategies.
• Facilitate the process of annual strategic planning to ensure company is aligned on strategic and financial paths on a timely manner.
• Work on any adhoc projects or initiatives per assigned by CEO and/or senior management team.

Requirements

Qualifications:
• Experience in strategy/ business consulting/ marketing with leading firms.
• Experience in lead large-scale business process improvement program.
• Experience in change management.
• Business and financial analysis background. Must be comfortable with numbers and understanding of financial performance.
• Excellent in stakeholder management with a self-starter attitude.
• Able to manage conflict and comfortable in managing cross-functional scope of work.
• Comfortable with change and non-routine work.
• Eager to learn and is a great team player.