Merchandising Sr. Manager

Job Summary:
Ensure and control brand performance indicators (buying, sales margin, retail sales, pricing, incoming goods, inventory level, promotions, stock movement ) are implement, organize, and achieve as the plan in order to achieve retail sales target & margin, healthy inventory level, brand positioning & awareness, and revenue growth.
Roles and Responsibilities:
Preparing OTB in M-Plan format right before upcoming year and updating the actual achievement and incoming goods monthly as the base for next year's OTB
Preparing Buying Plan for next season by selecting range collection from next season in Buying Plan, including estimated retail price and sales margin we wanted to get from each products that we have chosen.
Product development, pricing, Legal approval from Brand principal , bulk production schedule as per target launches in store for the License Product( Local production : Garindo ).
Samples quality checking and advice comments to supplier in order to ensure production quality
Prepare/Do initial allocation plan (every shipment comes in) and do analysis also manual push replenishment for E-Commerce
Proposing Markdown in monthly by evaluate whether each product is selling or not. For those that aren't selling well, we need to flush them by proposing MD% according to their ST % and Inventory Age
Do monitoring and analysis on brand performance, sales, stocks/inventory, and merchandise.
Produce periodic Report, Sell Thru Report and Monitoring and maintain markdown template for each brand
Support E-commerce by ensuring stocks are available; all articles, picture and information are in the web; highlight products to be campaign
Store visit to check sales, stores, display and any other information that useful for support the brand and check competitor pricing, product and store staff feedback for the merchandise there in stores
Follow up and update the incoming track list for each brand based on updated information
Communicate with Brand Principal and ensure that all directions & guidance are implemented correctly
Check and update price template for each new incoming for repeat articles based on the approved budget and plan
Prepare Wholesale Trade Show and store visit to wholesale customer stores
Financial and Non-Financial Measures:
Incoming stock arrived on time as plan
Achieve the sales target or more
Sales Margin meet the target
Healty inventory Level
Promotions setting promotion and executed as per plan for store if needed to boost up sales, especially for campaign products.