Job Description
Job Brief
- Seven-Up Bottling Company is hiring an experienced merchandiser who will help get the right product in the right place, time, quantity, and price.
Responsibilities
- Plan and develop merchandising strategies that balance customers’ expectations and the company’s objectives
- Analyse sales figures, customers’ reactions, and market trends to anticipate product needs and plan product ranges/stock
- Collaborate with buyers, suppliers, distributors, and analysts to negotiate prices, quantities, and time-scales
- Maximise customer interest and sales levels by displaying products appropriately
- Produce layout plans for stores and maintain store shelves and inventory
- Forecast profits/sales and plan budgets
- Monitor stock movement and consider markdowns, promotions, price changes, clearouts, etc
- Build constructive customer relationships and team with channel partners to build pipelines and close deals
- Remain up to date with the industry’s best practices
Requirements
- Minimum of OND qualification
- 1 year of work experience.
- Proven working experience in merchandising, preferably in sales of Beverage
- Highly creative with experience in identifying target audiences and devising campaigns that engage, inform, and motivate
- Up-to-date with the latest merchandising trends and best practices
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong listening, presentation, and decision-making skills
- Commercial acumen and the ability to “decode” customers
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