Assistant Manager, Pricing & Promotions eCommerce

Purpose & Overall Relevance For The Organization

This role is responsible for maximising the sales, profitability and brand equity of SEA markets eCommerce through the management and execution of both:

• Pricing management for all product categories in eCom, in line with the company brand strategy and financial goals (net sales, margin, markdown and inventory targets).
• Support the definition and execution of product Life cycle management, including MSS and EOSS.
• Provide Product and Pricing insights/actions with regards to key commercial moments to ensure there is enough inventory to maximize sales forecast withing the markdown parameters.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Manage the execution of the defined key merchandising principles related to pricing and promotions in day-to-day business and regularly give feedback to management.
• Input to Director of Merchandising eCom on overall pricing and markdown strategy for upcoming seasons and key commercial moments.
• Ensure price alignment between country/channels to price articles within the local price structures in accordance with pricing policy.
• Maintain historical promotion performance documentation to ensure proper future planning. Maintain article lists comp performance across seasons.
• Load Markdown prices in the central and local systems and maintain systems accordingly.
• Manage and maintain price change history as well as documentation around exclusion lists required for pricing compliance.
• Assist end-to-end preparation and timelines adherence to key commercial inventory forecasting processes including sale dates definition, articles selection, discounts strategy, leftover transfer strategy.
• Assist in all promotions on site that have product implications.
• Issue key Merchandise Management Reports related to price, margin and markdown management. Issue reporting pack for effective analysis of promotional activities incl. sales period.
• Plan and execute price actions (mark-ups- downs, promotions, sale activities) and drive analyses that provide the financial impact of these actions.
• Maintain knowledge base (country specific legal restrictions, special sales periods, special sales actions like friends and families etc.) to improve future pricing actions.
• Work pro-actively, propose changes in processes in order to avoid irregularities.
• Ensure all Point of Sale (POS) have a retail price per stock keeping unit (SKU)
• Other duties as requested by your manager.
  
  

Key Relationships

• SEA eCom Team
• Country Supply Chain and Logistics
• Emerging Markets eCom Hub Merchandising
• Emerging Markets eCom Hub Consumer Experience
• Emerging Markets eCom Planning and Analytics
  
  

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Structured, organized and process orientated.
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment and under pressure
• Strong analytical skills
• Attention to detail
• Fluent in English
• Advanced user of MS Office suite of products – esp. Excel, Access, PPT
• Advanced knowledge of Retail Management Systems – SAP AFS, SAP PGR, DVM, Microstrategy
• Dashboarding/Data Visualization experience a plus 
  
  

Requisite Education And Experience/Minimum Qualifications

• University degree, ideally in business with sales and finance focus or equivalent professional experience
• 2-4 years experience in Retail merchandising (incl. buying, planning, distribution, budgeting)
• Functional awareness of Store Operations and Finance
  
  

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