Duties and Responsibilities
• Implementing Department Strategy and Category plans, selecting brands and items and setting the prices.
• Monitoring performance of the assigned commercial departments across store formats - sales, gross margin, Profit & Loss; in alignment with the Company’s targets.
• Defining and maintaining local assortment and integrating basic assortment for the Department/Categories.
• Pricing the items based on set guidelines.
• Identifying local promo products and pricing each item, submitting relevant reordering information to replenishment.
• Coordinating with other functions, Operations, Logistics, and E&M as well as other areas in merchandise such as Private label, Promo, Display, etc.
• Selecting local suppliers, negotiating, and purchasing in line with expected needs guided by the corporate guidelines and standards such as cost price, discounts, rebates, payments term discounts, etc.
• Reviewing and attending to/resolving any issues with local suppliers.
• Contributing to the company’s Promotional activities as required.
• Collecting market prices and conducting country price audits.
Skills and Experience
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in merchandising preferably with a leading FMCG retailer (Buying or/and Sales experience)
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration or related field.
• Excellent communication and management skills
• Energetic and motivated personality with great multitasking.
• Proficient in MS office, especially MS Excel.
• Must have excellent interpersonal and networking skills. An ability to build and maintain effective working relationships with suppliers and colleagues.
We, at Career Hunters, work closely with our client corporations to provide the best talent in today's competitive marketplace. By placing executives who wish to improve their career direction or seek lucrative opportunities in today's fast pace of life. Our specialization in Job analysis, helps us determing corporate requirements, towards employee characteristics which include, mental,physical and educational capabilities. In short, we surpass corporate requirements, in providing complete HR consultancy from Employee selection to Implementation and fallback. Being based in Kuwait, gives us the immediate knowledge of the region, the labour laws & ultimately the cultural background. Thus giving us the upper hand in providing proper and satisfactory results.
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