Department Manager - Merchandising (Pharmacy/ Personal Care)
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Posted: February 3, 2026
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Quick Summary
A Department Manager for Commercial – Pharmacy/Personal Care Products in Bangkok, Thailand, responsible for planning and managing the commercial and personal care products sales, budgeting, and customer demand.
Required Skills
Job Description
• Responsible for planning and selecting a range of Commercial – Pharmacy/ Personal Care Products to sell.
• Set up all plan to achieve sale and plan other income.
• Manage and control budget to allocate as each supplier.
• Assessing the customer demand, including price, quality and availability.
• To capture, analyze, and predict the future market trends; and ready to change in demand.
• To realize the store policy, and implemented.
• To always evaluate for company financial budgets towards Commercial – Pharmacy/ Personal Care Products and policies.
• Be able to maximize profits at competitive prices via bench marking with rivals.
• Ensures that products being developed match or better quality than benchmarks and priced lower than the benchmark according to brand positioning.
• To understand the Commercial – Pharmacy/ Personal Care Products season, popularity and product time manner.
• Regularly reviewing performance indicators, such as sales and discount levels.
• Managing plans for stock levels.
• Reacting to changes in demand and logistics.
• Meeting suppliers and negotiating terms of contract.
• Maintaining relationships with existing suppliers and sourcing new suppliers for future.
• Participating in promotional activities and understanding the customer needs.
• Writing reports and forecasting sales levels; and presenting to Senior Commercial Manager.
• Training and mentoring junior staff.
Requirements:
• Bachelor’s degree in marketing, international business administration or any related field.
• Minimum 6 years’ experience in sourcing orbuying experience in Pharmacy/ Personal Care Products.
• Team Leader, Possess sound leadership skills and be able to lead a merchandising team.
• Strong negotiation skills and good sense of Merchandising and Commercial.
• Initiative, proactive, positive thinking and can-do attitude.
• Multitask, quick response and can work under pressure.
• Resulted and details oriented.
• Good command of English.
• Excellent in computer usage of MS Office.