About Us

Established in 1972, Guardian Health & Beauty is Singapore's Number 1 Health and Beauty retailer. With more than 126 stores nation-wide, it retails a comprehensive range of health & beauty products. Guardian has evolved from its pharmacy roots to a holistic one-stop solution for customers' health and beauty needs. It continues to expand its products and service range to meet the redefinition of beauty by today's customers - where health meets beauty.

With a strong health heritage, it has the largest network of award-winning pharmacists and a wide selection of health products. Professional services such as patient-care counselling, dispensary services, beauty and personal care solutions are offered at stores as a convenient one-stop for health and beauty. Guardian also operates its online store with more than 9,000 products available and offers the "Click & Collect" services. For more information, please visit www.guardian.com.sg. Follow Guardian Health & Beauty on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Youtube and TikTok.

Guardian Health & Beauty is a Progressive Wage (PW) mark accredited company.

Role Purpose

To develop and implement strategic plans for assigned categories within the framework of a disciplined category management business process so as to achieve company's financial goals and objectives, improve market share, customer satisfaction and productivity performance measures for the company

Responsibilities

• Drive and achieve category sales, gross profit, income goals and objectives of assigned categories through monitoring trends within the market segments; developing strategies to grow the market share of assigned categories; and to plan strategies to counter competition.
• Develop and implement a good inventory management process so that there is an optimum product mix that focuses on customers' needs and the process achieves shrinkage reduction objective.
• Develop and implement promotional plans that bring excitement and incremental sales to the stores.
• Develop and implement placement and planogram strategies that improve category turnover and positively influence customer shopping behavior.
• Oversees the implementation of category strategies as well as the development of the private label or house brand products.
• Ability to build strong relationships with business partners and is well-informed of consumer, market and industry trends.
• Works in a dynamic environment were expected to regularly review market and industry trends to drive appeal of merchandise mix to target customers.
• Develop and implement a competitive pricing strategy that delivers value to our customers.
• Establish collaborative retailer / supplier relationships to maximize income/ terms / discounts to improve sales and profitability of category.
• To develop Monthly Category Analysis Report of the assigned categories.
• Manage and evaluate promotion effectiveness to achieve maximum profitability for the categories.

About You

• Possesses relevant experience, ideally within the retail or FMCG sector.
• Experience in a customer-focused industry, possessing expertise in merchandising, marketing, and entrepreneurial skills.
• Well-versed in industry trends and market dynamics, with excellent presentation, negotiation, and interpersonal abilities.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data and generate valuable insights.
• Driven and highly adaptable with a collaborative mindset.
• Fluent in English, with strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Organized, decisive, determined, and persistent individual.

Benefits

• Team Member Discount
• Subsidized Medical and Dental Benefits
• Training Opportunities
• Career Advancement

Working Location: Tampines North