A retail company/group operating in Melaka is seeking to hire a highly skilled and motivated Head/Director/VP - Merchandising to join its growing team in Melaka. As the Director, you will advance this organization to a new level of excellence and achievement in the provision of high quality retail services.
Are you up for leading the fast changing merchandising efforts of a pioneering online retailer that’s still growing like a start-up? Got the right-brain passion for creatively design products? Razor sharp left-brain analytics? Outstanding leadership skills? A commitment to using business to have a positive social impact? If so, then we should talk.
You’ll be building and leading a super-talented team of dedicated buyers and guiding collaboration with our marketing, creative, technology and business development teams. You will be the point person in our partnerships with artists, designers and other key suppliers, all in an effort to continue our tradition of dazzling our customers with a veritable line of remarkable products.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- New Supermarket Project Planning / Project Development / Project Management & Pre - Opening.
- Retail Business Development.
- Daily Business Operations & Management.
- Forecasting, Budgeting, Strategic Planning & Research.
- Overseeing all aspects of merchandising strategy and operations including all types of new retail products development.
- A proven merchant with extensive experience in all aspects of merchandising, product development, branding and sourcing high quality products.
- Must with national retailers' background, especially from larger retail chain of supermarkets or popular chain of department stores.
- This position has full P&L responsibility and reports to the CEO.
Job Description:
The primary responsibility of this position is to develop, initiate and lead the execution of merchandising strategies to drive revenue growth and deliver greater market share. The successful candidate is a strong leader and innovator capable of converting insights from sales and behavioral analysis into actionable insights to achieve our objectives. He/she will develop/execute category strategies, create and update category scorecard measurements and targets, and aid in decision making for all tactical efforts of the team at the customer level, including product assortment, merchandising, pricing and promotional opportunities.
- Convey the merchandising vision through effective product selection, customer understanding and strong vendor partnerships.
- Strengthen our market position and brand recognition through the skillful selection of innovative and creatively designed merchandise that appeals to the company’s target customers and market positioning.
- Prepare and manage the annual merchandise operating plan to ensure key performance goals, new initiatives and qualitative measures consistent with the brand vision and financial goals are achieved.
- Direct and approve all products in the company’s assortment, as well as catalogs, emails and homepages to meet criteria, standards and achieve gross profit goals.
- Identify and develop exclusive product ideas and opportunities, as well as prioritize category opportunities.
- Lead the buying team to ensure the full product assortment meets the criteria for product attribute and financial goals.
- Develop team members and put in place succession planning for the buying team.
- Travel to multiple trade shows throughout the year.
- Consistently seek new opportunities and venues to find new product and product opportunities.
- Report to the Founder/CEO and fulfill a key leadership role in the company.
Other task:
- Set the merchandising strategy.
- Edit the exclusive product business.
- Attend industry trade shows.
- Deliver on the company’s Merchandise Operating Plan.
- Full P&L responsibility for all product categories.
- Achieve assortment and gross profit goals for catalogs and online totals.
- Forecast all product selections (new items and catalog picks).
- Ensure effective new item pipeline management.
- Drive the growth of the business by ensuring successful introduction of new items to the company that meet the product criteria as well as financial goals.
- Oversee web category product presentations and all catalog product picks.
- Develop additional reports, analytics and metrics to improve our business.
- Effectively lead and manage a team of buying direct reports.
- Bachelor’s degree
- 10+ years’ experience in merchandising, buying and/or marketing. Ecommerce experience a plus, with some online merchandising/ e-commerce and marketing experience.
- Proven track record of success with experience in a management leadership role as a merchant.
- 5+ years of specialty buying experience with merchandise P&L and planning responsibility.
- Passion, eye and knowledge of specialty merchandise and creative design.
- Customer orientation
- Ability to set and achieve high level of performance from a product selection team.
- Strong negotiation and relationship management skills.
- Creative thinker with financial acumen.
- High level of professionalism.
- Ability to extract data from a database into Excel, manipulate, and develop reports to improve decision making.
- Experience in working with boards of directors providing professional, accurate, and strategic advice.
- Experience in supermarket retail industry processes and decision making.
- Ability to handle multiple demands and make tough decisions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, especially in English.
- Sense of urgency & commitment to cooperative values and principles.
- Ability to organize time to the best advantage of the organization.
- High standard of integrity and reliability.
- Salary open to negotiation depending on experience levels.
If you are interested in this position, please send an email
to malaysiahiddenjobs@gmail.com
with a brief description about yourself, why you are suitable / qualify for
this position and the job title/code. Please do not email your resume yet. We
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