Assistant Manager, Retail Merchandising

YOUR MISSION:

• Manage and achieve or exceed for retail store target
• Support line manager, colleague including store in terms of right assortment and quantities, stock replenishment & allocation, in-store promotion to deliver target
• Monitor intake margin from OTB, buying and planning. Implement in-season trading model base on agreed markdown policy.
• Able to monitor GP/ margin of total retail stores to achieve or exceed GP, margin, EBIT target
• Directly responsible for OTB planning, Buying & Selection, Merchandising planning and Stock allocation & replenishment for all Retail stores.
• Initiate seasonal product calendar and communicate to all relate parties e.g. VM, Training, Store operation, partner stores, etc.
• Manage and communicate all merchandise opportunities to Store Manager or the store management
• Responsible for inventory management and monitoring.
• Responsible to review, allocate, replenishment, transfer stock from DC to store, store to store and store to DC to deliver target sale, GP and stock level.
• Participate in new store openings and/or store closings; travel may be required.
• Required to work non-traditional hours; weekends, evenings, holidays; overtime may be required.

YOUR TALENT:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher
• Age minimum 30 years
• Minimum 8-10 years of relevant experience in buying/merchandising preferably in fashion or sport industry.
• Proven track record in buying and merchandising in prior companies.
• PC-skills, MS-Office Knowledge, Strong in Ms.Excel ( intermediate level up) Outlook, Internet, SAP, BI
• Fluent spoken and written in both English and Thai
• Having effective communication and presentation skill
• Ability to reason through complex issues, demonstrates effective communication, ability to present information to large groups
• Having a business & commercial acumen
• Having a strong passion & good knowledge in sport is preferable (Optional).
• Understanding and having knowhow of visual merchandising (optional)
• Hands on, can do daily reports and upon assignment
• Strong organizational and time management skills and able to work under pressure
• Have commitment and good time management
• Leadership and people management skill
• Sense of Ownership
• Trustworthy, flexible
• Good team player
• Enthusiastic
• Demonstrated ability to provide high levels of merchandising and buying skills
• Having nose for competitor news.
• Familiar with BI, SAP, Ms.Office especially intermediate excel