OUR CLIENT is a fast-growing pharmaceutical company into the distribution of Nutraceuticals and household items. Due to expansion, they are in need of Merchandizers to handle sales.
Job Description
• Liaising with buyers, analysts, stores, suppliers and distributors
• Maintaining a comprehensive library of appropriate data
• Working closely with visual display staff and department heads to decide how goods should be displayed to maximize sales
• Maintaining awareness of competitors' performance
• Monitoring slow sellers and taking action to reduce prices or set promotions as necessary
• Gathering information on customers' reactions to products
• Analyzing the previous season's sales and reporting on the current season's lines
• Making financial presentations to senior managers
• Accompanying buyers on visits to manufacturers to appreciate production processes
• Meeting with suppliers and managing the distribution of stock, by negotiating cost prices, ordering stock, agreeing to timescales and delivery dates and completing the necessary paperwork
• Working closely with buyers and other merchandisers to plan product ranges
• Managing budgets
• Predicting sales and profits
• Negotiating quantities and delivery time-scales
• Handling supply/production problems as they arise
• Setting stock promotions/price reductions as appropriate
• Assessing sales performance of different ranges

Requirements

• O.N.D in Marketing or any social sciences
• Commercial awareness
• Confidence
• Able to cope with pressure
• Team working skills
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Strong numerical and analytical skills

Send CV to oladele.i@fadacresources.com