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Manager, Retail Merchandising Jobs in Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand at PUMA Group
Title: Manager, Retail Merchandising
Company: PUMA Group
Location: Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand
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YOUR MISSION:Together with the Director of Buying and Merchandising and SEA Channel Manager, this role will be responsible for delivering a buy strategy per season and building the most profitable, balanced, customer focused range for the country which reflects the PUMA Brand Strategy and supports any key country strategies.
Accountable for managing the in-season trading of the business in a way where inventory is managed efficiently and required trading decisions are made and communicated to stakeholders.
Execution of seasonal buy for FPS, FOC and ECOM
Execute seasonal buy in accordance with OTB & Budget
Define assortment based on Country/ Channel/market/ platform/ customer profile, participate in seasonal preline/ kickoff/ tradeshow meetings to ensure product relevance.
Ensure timely submission of seasonal orders.
Manage the right product mix with targeted division/product category in mind.
Ensure the buy based on analysis of the historical data/sell through.
Define product strategy by sales channel to achieve optimal sell through results
Deliver seasonal line to ensure gross margin, sell through performance and healthy stocks inventory.
Present seasonal collection performance vs expectations and in analyzing consumer buying patterns, predicting future trends
Propose Country requirement and pricing against competition.
Effective and efficient in-season rollout
Ensure Country/ channel/ platform seasonal rollout is aligned with Global/ SEA direction.
Be close to market to monitor direct competitors against Brand’s position in terms of pricing, product, technology, Hero items.
Ensure timely rollout of monthly launches and product assortment plan prior launch of a season.
Touch base weekly/monthly with both Offline and ECOM OPs to reaffirm on RESEC/ OSEC & Banner and promotion roll out
Align best practices across territory
Adhere to existing best practices and ensure it is consistently rolled out in different participating platform/s
Ensure that functional work processes are clearly defined.
Pre-season Planning
Together with Channel Manager and Planning Manager, review Sales, Inventory, Profit and OTB Budgets vs actual performance by channel and division and evaluate the achievability of budget targets for future seasons using the OTB tool. Present risks and opportunities to and sign off any changes with Head of Buying and Merchandising.
Together with Planning Team to determine OTB’s for future seasons making sure it allows efficient cover of Inventory while delivering profit and minimizing End Inventory. Present to and sign off with the Head of Buying and Merchandising.
Review store base grading by analyzing historical sales, SKU efficiency, and specific store needs as well as strategy. Work with Visual Merchandising on capacity planning to make sure the stores have the right amount of SKUs per space/concept at any point in time. Hand over the SKU targets to Merchandising to make sure the needed capacity is fulfilled a…
