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Job Description
We believe that work is not just an office you report to every morning. It is rather the right place for discoveries as well as innovations and a venue for development of professional skills. Employees in Panda always work to reach new heights in performance through enthusiasm, punctuality and adaptability. If you believe you can be the one with this skill set, join us today to start your first step towards a quite successful career path.
Job Purpose
To assist in achieving the department sales, margin, other income and total commercial margin in order to support the company in achieving the sales and bottom line targets.
Job Responsibilities
- Assists/leads the negotiations of the annual supply agreements with the vendors as per the company guidelines.
- In managing product categories, the Category Associate recommends the product categories to the Category manager as well as assisting him/her in implementing the category plan in line with sales budget and forecasts.
- Assists the category manager in negotiating and administrating the cost and retail prices setting (Product Margin).
- Assist the category manager in managing the total commercial margin by negotiating/follow-up the deals with the vendors and ensure the implementation.
- Analyzes and follow-up with the vendors the product sourcing process and complete all the formalities.
- Helps in managing the vendor relations by providing periodically feedback to the vendors on their performance.
- Assists Category Manager in Promo Optimization process:
• Supplier Brief Communication
• Items’ Selection
• Promo Internal Communication
• Forecasting
• Signoff
• Post Promo Review and Action
- Improves Category Availability through:
• Setting MFQ and MDQ
- Improves Category Footfall through:
• Planogram implementation
Skills
Education
Bachelor Degree in Business or Engineering
GPA Minimum 3,75/5
Experience, Skills and Competencies
• Knowledge of using Microsoft office (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Negotiations skills
• Analytical Skills
• Excellence in English
Education
Industrial Engineering or Business
