• Negotiate with vendors regarding best schemes, offers, discounts and place orders.
• Is responsible for preparing the vendor schedule.
• Analyze and study reports of Top selling, slow moving, zero sale SKU's and placing purchase orders to ensure stock availability and optimum utilization of space.
• Coordinate with the vendors and warehouse to ensure debit items are collected within timelines specified.
• Conduct floor walk with operations to ensure availability, visibility, timely refilling, proper display & correct price boards. Interact with staff to share information and enable execution.
• Decide the selling price.
• Develop relationships with the vendors to get excellent services & timely information.
• Negotiate for placement of promoters, review their daily availability & provide instruction to ensure smooth functioning of the store.
• Participate in weekly promoter briefing. Coordinate with company officials regarding customer complaints and follow-up for timely resolution.
• Conduct competitions benchmarking with stores in vicinity twice a week to improve on pricing, product display, product range. Coordinate with HO for deciding OL, OQ.
• Identify & follow-up on PNM to ensure timely payment to vendors.
• Share information with operations to control pilferage (stock in systems vs. stock on floor/ warehouse).
• Prepare vendor schedule and plan dispatches to enable smooth stock take.
• Maintain registers to ensure compliance with process audit.
Preferred candidate profile
Candidate from FMCG industry(GT & MT Market background will be preferred)