Thư Huỳnh
Buying & Merchandising Manager
34 years old
Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
I'm pretty picky and directed to the perfection in every task. Besides, responsibility and honesty are the trusted points which employers can reassured in me. When I say I want to do this job, it means I can do better than anyone and will make extreme expectation achievement.
I'm a consistent, hard working, highly motivated person. I feel that i am a friendly, outgoing and dependable person. I feel it is crucial to demonstrate the importance of my job duties and expectations. I'm looking to improve my position in the work force, expand my knowledge and skills. I'm also looking to establish long term employment in a friendly environment. My objective is to leverage my experience while continuing to be challenged. Personally, I have the drive and determination to consistently achieve success as a leader in all of the organizations that I have worked with in the past
I'm a consistent, hard working, highly motivated person. I feel that i am a friendly, outgoing and dependable person. I feel it is crucial to demonstrate the importance of my job duties and expectations. I'm looking to improve my position in the work force, expand my knowledge and skills. I'm also looking to establish long term employment in a friendly environment. My objective is to leverage my experience while continuing to be challenged. Personally, I have the drive and determination to consistently achieve success as a leader in all of the organizations that I have worked with in the past
Buying & Merchandising Manager
TBS Sport
Since June 2018
- Main in charge of buying: planing, innovating and make adjustment on Buying process.
- Responsible for driving product offer, assortment direction and strategy focused on increasing category consumer right assortments to ensure a productive, profitable, and integrated marketplace.
- Supplier management, negotiation of payment terms, rebates etc.
- Manage product flow, product rotation.
- Follow orders, invoices and shipments. Making claim if there is any problem.
- Supervise, lead Merchandise team on all aspects.
- Analyzing historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities.
- Develop monthly forecasts of sales and inventory for all basic and fashion styles and will develop strategies to meet department financial goals and own open to buy forecasts.
- Understands consumer needs and market opportunity to buy the right product.
- Identify beyond trends to identify what's next and deliver the right product, at the right price, in the right places, at the right time.
- Making price base on regulation profit and suggest retail price at some neighboring countries.
- Survey and statistical top product, slow product to propose discount price, promotion or event to increase sales.
- Coordinate with VM department for Seasonal Collection, seasonal VM plan.
- Coordinate with Marketing department on Seasonal campaigns, Key product for PR plan, events ...
- Provide Seasonal product knowledge to retail staff to develop their skills and enhance their job performance.
- Coordinate with Operation department on Sales solution, internal & external promotions for pushing Sales ...
Retail Operations Manager
Hoang Phuc International (Clarks Brand)
May 2016
to March 2018
- Control all activities at stores: retail staffs, store image, visual merchandise, …
- Mentor and motivate sales staff to put in their best in order to achieve target goals.
- Usually visit stores to ensure efficient and effective management as well as high performance sales, random check receipt and book recording, make reward or senction if any.
- Contact store managers and other retail staff to communicate relevant information
- Plan necessary rules and regulation for stores, get approval higher management and execution of the policies. From time to time evaluate the effectiveness of policy and make necessary adjustment.
- Direct and supervise retail staff across several retail outlets to ensure they meet set objectives
- Update basic knowledge / seasonal products to retail employees to develop their skills and enhance their job performance
- Estimate the needs of each store location and work with the store's management to solve conflicts, make sure that scheduling needs are met and assist in improving employee performance and retention.
- Forecast sales figures and inventory requirements for each location. Doing a periodic inventory analysis for each store and using that analysis coupled with sales figures to determine the optimal stock levels.
- Determine a layout of store merchandise that is visually appealing to consumers. Instruct the store's management and employees on how to maintain the design with the arrival of new merchandise. Teaching the store's employees how to optimize space for special events, such as in-store discount sales.
- Constantly review store sales numbers, cost of inventory, operational expenses and inventory loss to suggest to management how each location could change in order to maximize profits and reduce loss at the store level.
- Listen to customer complaints to address & resolve their issues
- Get feedback reports and customer information from stores every month, implement customer service plan or base on them to make suitable adjustment in buying, allocate stock...
- Coordinate with other team as Warehouse, Merchandise, Brand, Marketing to implement all activities or events in store.
Merchandiser Manager
Duy Anh Fahion & Cosmetics (Burberry, Salvatore Ferragamo, Bally, Versace, Just Cavalli, Paul & Shark, ...)
October 2014
to May 2016
Full-time
HCM
Vietnam
- Responsibility of Sales, Margin, old stock, potential old stock, stock rotation, private brand share, core customer share, stock correction & availability.
- Plan buying budget of new collection twice times a year.
- Manage the performance of a defined product category effectively in terms of pricing, promotion, products assortment, quality of products, planning and allocation.
- Follow orders, invoices and shipments. Making claim if there is any problem.
- Making price base on regulation profit and suggest retail price at some neighboring countries.
- Full responsibility in the development and implementation of private brand strategy within the category.
- Survey and statistical top product, slow product to propose discount price, promotion or event to increase sales.
- Research, analyze and evaluate the market to identify customer’s needs and product/range opportunities.
- Work with Marketing team to ensure that the range fully reflects the Core Target Group needs in terms of the complete offer.
- Develop a range assortment that delivers competitive advantage in the Vietnamese Market.
- Identify with supply chain the most effective/cost efficient means of delivering product to the store. Follow the designated Import process.
- Supplier management, negotiation of payment terms, rebates etc.
- Maintain effective internal communications channel particularly with other team: operations, sales & marketing, logistic and other functions within the organization.
- Update products knowledge for sale staffs. Etc…
- Delivery & supervise tasks for members in my team.
Assistant to Brand Manager
Hoang Phuc International (Skechers Brand)
August 2011
to October 2014
Full-time
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
- Operation:
- Control all activities at stores: store image, visual merchandise, staffs…
- Training: basic knowledge about product also policies of company for new staffs; knowledge of new collection every season.
- Plan necessary rules and regulation for stores, get approval higher management and execution of the policies. From time to time evaluate the effectiveness of policy and make necessary adjustment.
- Supervise staffs at store and via sales report everyday, random check receipt and book recording, make reward or senction if any.
- Eveluate and renovate the manners of staffs, organize periodic inspection.
- Regularly check and refresh visual merchandise at stores.
- Guide staffs display as guideline and concept from Brand.
- Join in changing layout every season, suggest ideas for Christmas, Luna New Year or holidays…
- Solve complaint of customers also problems occur at stores.
- Get feedback reports and customer information from stores every month, implement customer service plan or base on them to make suitable adjustment in buying, allocate stock...
- Develop and implement activities to achieve sales target by setting monthly sales target for all stores and review their performance monthly and quarterly.
- Transmit promotion info to staffs. Supervise their implement and collect effective of promotion or event. Find out strengths and weaknesses through programs.
- Control all activities at stores: store image, visual merchandise, staffs…
- Sale & Merchandise:
- Plan buying budget of new collection and join for buying in the trade show at foreign countries twice times a year .
- Follow orders, invoices and shipments. Make claim if there is any problem.
- Make price base on regulation profit and suggest retail price at some neighboring countries.
- Survey and statistical top product, slow product to propose discount price, promotion or event to increase sales.
- Manage the performance of a defined product category effectively in terms of pricing, promotion, products assortment, quality of products, planning and allocation.
- Full responsibility in the development and implementation of private brand strategy within the category.
- Research, analyze and evaluate the market to identify customer’s needs and product/range opportunities.
- Supplier management, negotiation of payment terms, rebates etc.
- Plan buying budget of new collection and join for buying in the trade show at foreign countries twice times a year .
- Marketing:
- Monitoring sales to propose marketing promotions.
- Update and revise the rationality after receive feedback from previous programs.
- Estimate and propose budget for marketing activities, printing leaflets, catalogues....
- Coordinate with design department to approve the images of POP, banners, standee be showed on this program.
- Monitor the activities on fan page, double check before approve for posts on website and Facebook.
- Identify ideas and monitoring the implementation of mini-game on fan page, evaluate effectiveness of them.
- Work with Digital department for related issues on website.
- Monitor and request relevant department have to promptly revise the information on media once there are errors.
- Quickly require to delete images of product are not available...
- Monitoring sales to propose marketing promotions.
Merchandise Executive
Hoang Phuc International (Skechers Brand)
October 2010
to August 2011
- Responsibility of Sales, Margin, old stock, potential old stock, stock rotation, private brand share, core customer share, stock correction & availability.
- Manage the performance of a defined product category effectively in terms of pricing, promotion, products assortment, quality of products, planning and allocation.
- Full responsibility in the development and implementation of private brand strategy within the category.
- Participating in the trade show of new products and ordering products for every new season in foreign countries.
- Making sales report everyday.
- Research, analyze and evaluate the market to identify customer’s needs and product/range opportunities.
- Work with Marketing team to ensure that the range fully reflects the Core Target Group needs in terms of the complete offer.
- Develop a range assortment that delivers competitive advantage in the Vietnamese Market.
- Identify with supply chain the most effective/cost efficient means of delivering product to the store. Follow the designated Import process.
- Supplier management, negotiation of payment terms, rebates etc.
- Maintain effective internal communications channel particularly with other Merchandise team, operations, sales & marketing, logistic and other functions within the organization.
- Support:
- Display products at the store, recommend for changing layout show window every season.
- Display products at the store, recommend for changing layout show window every season.
- Training products knowledge for staff sales.
- Training products knowledge for staff sales.
- Etc…
- Etc…
