Assistant Manager Inline Buying (spw App)

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION:

This role is responsible for executing the inline category in terms of managing merchandising planning, buying in determining store clusters, article selection, article depth, and timely providing sales analysis, trading/fashion trend recommendation to support the business.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Pre-Season Buying:

Analyze historical data to support team to develop buying structure and provide pre-season buying proposal for each channel at cluster and store level.

Provide article level analysis to identify key drivers for top selling articles, as well as slow moving articles.

Develop each channel, and store cluster proposal and distribution plan.

Monitor buying quantity vs. budget; reconcile buy plan to merchandise plan.

Assortment Planning:

Support to create assortment plans by channel/store clusters based on GCA RA

Support to create detailed product & store segmentation/cluster by Product segment & store segmentation

Help to create and recompile a clear merchandising strategy at a store cluster level

Integrate with BC and RM into c/c campaign planning with right mandatory package to build up at cluster level

In-Season Sales Performance Review:

Provide analysis and documentation for post-season review.

Provide seasonal deep dive analysis for customers.

Partner with X-function team to develop action steps for next season.

Others

Other job-related work assigned from Line Manager.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

Internal: OMB Planning, In Season Trading, BU, Offline Operations, Global IT, Project Team, VM, Marketing

External: Franchisee

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

• Solid products and merchandising knowledge
• Logic thinking driven and strong analytical skills
• Be passionate about buying and able to work under intense timeline
• Strong (written and verbal) communication and interpersonal skills. Collaborative, able to build strong relationships quickly.
• Ability to influence cross functional teams, cultivate relationships;
• Learning and self-development
• Results oriented

REQUISITE EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND OTHER SKILL

• Bachelor or Master's degree required, with solid years in consumer industry with at least 3-5 years in merchandising / buying function
• Good understanding of retail business.
• Prefer good Excel modelling skills and ability to develop useful models/tools that can be rolled out to merchandising and retail teams
• Prefer good presentation and PPT skills