Job Purpose

Lead and provide guidance to merchandising team members that drive exceptional customer service and the execution of operational tasks.

Duties & Responsibilities 

• Ensure the implementation of trade agreements and assigned marketing activations.
• Ensure that all merchandising activities are properly executed at the store level to support sales goals.
• communicate monthly marketing priorities to the merchandising team
• Maintain and ensure a good relationship with all levels of field sales and customers.
• Maintain an interdepartmental flow of communication between sales and merchandisers.
• Collect and submit all market reports on time.
• Manage all POS material inventory and implementation.
• Help the Key Account Team with all in-store activations.
• Control the stock count and send out alerts and out-of-stock notifications as needed.
• Control the execution of the team journey plan set by the trade marketing supervisor and K.A. manager.
• Ensure that the brand activations assigned by trade marketing and the K.A. manager are carried out as a team.
• Collect and monitor all reports required from the merchandising team.
• control and review planogram execution and POSM on all our brands in coordination with a brand manager.
• control and review out-of-stock situations, stock counts, expirations, competitive activities, and price changes
• Report and communicate all competitive actions across all brands and categories.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the General Manager.

Competencies

Education

• Technical or Bachelor’s degree in Business or any related field. 

Experience

• 5 to 8 years of relevant experience in FMCG

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Excellent customer service and communication skills. 
• Good leadership skills 
• Sales oriented 
• Ability to work under pressure while meeting deadline 
• Time management skills