Merchandising Manager - Home Care

Lotus's (Suan Luang)

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 Merchandising Manager - Home Care is responsible for planning, selecting, and managing a range of home care products to achieve sales targets and maximize profits while maintaining supplier relationships and understanding market trends.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for planning and selecting a range of Home care Products to sell
• Set up all plan to achieve sale and plan other income
• Manage and control budget to allocate as each supplier
• Assessing the customer demand, including price, quality and availability.
• To capture, analyze, and predict the future market trends; and ready to change in demand
• To always evaluate for company financial budgets towards Commercial Home care Retail Products and policies
• Be able to maximize profits at competitive prices via bench marking with rivals
• Ensures that products being developed match or better quality than benchmarks and priced lower than the benchmark according to brand positioning
• To understand the Commercial Home care Products season, popularity and product time manner.
• Regularly reviewing performance indicators, such as sales and discount levels
• Managing plans for stock levels
• Reacting to changes in demand and logistics
• Meeting suppliers and negotiating terms of contract
• Maintaining relationships with existing suppliers and sourcing new suppliers for future
• Participating in promotional activities and understanding the customer needs
• Writing reports and forecasting sales levels; and presenting to Senior Commercial Manager
• Training and mentoring junior staffs

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in marketing, international business administration or any related field
• Minimum 5 years’ experiences in sourcing or buying experience in Home care or FMCG product
• Fluent English skill is preferred
• Data-driven decision and data tool skill are necessary
• Strong negotiation skill and good sense of Merchandising and commercial
• Initiative, proactive, positive thinking and can do attitude
• Multitask, quick response and can work under pressure
• Resulted and details oriented