Category Merchandising Manager

About the Company

ACE Hardware, one of the leading hardware stores in the United States, opened its first franchise in the Philippines at SM Southmall, Las Piñas, Metro Manila in 1997. Since then, it had one purpose: to bring to the Philippine market the ultimate one-stop-shop for the latest solutions for home improvement.

Since its inception in 1997, ACE Hardware has grown to become one of the country’s leading home hardware chains with 239 ACE Hardware branches nationwide, 3,000+ employees and still growing.

About the Role

Responsible to support merchandise throughout our branch network to fulfill company wide sales plan.

Responsibilities

• Ensuring appropriate & timely stocks/merchandise are able to support sales plan of stores.
• Merchandising tools (Arc BI, MMS Auto rep/Auto transfer) must be used as analytics to support business category decisions.
• Responsible for preparation of Sales, inventory, margin, aging, performance reports.
• Tasked to oversee “other” reports (OSO, RTV, SPS, Gondola, Receipts & Promosys).
• Develop Merchandising strategies on their respective category that will fulfill sales and margin plan.
• Prepares promotional highlights, and analyzes results for future planning.
• Develop Category promotions, highlights for revenue drivers.
• Forecast sales, inventory, & margins to support business objectives.

Qualifications

• Graduate of any Business Course from reputable universities.
• At least 2 - year experience as merchandising officer and overall 5-year experience in Retail Industry
• Communicating and Understanding Effectively
• Demonstrating SM Values
• Attention to Details (Compliance to Standards)

Required Skills

• Inventory Management
• Merchandising
• Retail Management
• Retail Financial
• Negotiation
• Business Systems (MMS/Bi Arc/Promosys/Store Consignor System)

Preferred Skills

• Leadership Skills
• Management Skills
• Managing Performance