Open Market Trade Executives at Alan & Grant

About the Job

The Trade Executive is responsible for ensuring effective merchandising and optimal visibility of the industry brands within assigned open market stalls, wholesalers, and high-volume retailers. This includes managing inventory positions, maximizing sales, and driving sell-out for brands including Akai Batteries, Amabile Di Rosa, Mangrove, Prime, and Hell Energy, utilizing the company's proprietary Account Manager App to efficiently track store activities, manage merchandising tasks, and facilitate inventory replenishment

Your Job Description

• Ensure optimal merchandising of the company products across primary and secondary shelf locations.
• Adhere to and maintain brand-specific planograms and visual merchandising standards.
• Coordinate and oversee the deployment and usage of promotional materials (POSM), ensuring accurate implementation.
• Actively drive in-store sales through effective merchandising, promotion execution, and customer engagement.
• Capture accurate inventory stock positions across all relevant store shelves.
• Monitor stock rotation rates closely to understand product movement and identify opportunities to boost sales.
• Provide timely updates on stock availability, proactively addressing low-stock scenarios to avoid out-of-stock occurrences.
• Use insights from the Account Manager App to recommend replenishment and restocking actions with a clear focus on increasing sales turnover.
• Follow assigned store visitation routes, ensuring compliance with scheduled visits.
• Utilize the Account Manager App Check-In feature to authenticate store presence and activity duration.
• Maintain and update route completion status daily.
• Accurately record merchandising activities, inventory checks, and promotional activities through the Account Manager App.
• Leverage the AI-powered functionalities of the app to assist in data capture (OCR) and predictive analytics for inventory management.
• Regularly review mini-dashboard insights, including daily visit completion rate, total daily sales figures, and average in-store time to optimize productivity.
• Proficiently use TradeDepot’s Account Manager App (Merchandiser Profile) to perform daily merchandising tasks.
• Engage effectively with app functionalities, including geolocation check-ins, stock capture, planogram compliance checks, promotional activity audits, and AI-driven stock replenishment recommendations.
• Daily route completion rate.
• Inventory accuracy and timely restocking.
• Compliance with promotional activities and POSM deployment.
• Adherence to planogram standards.
• Average time spent per store visit and task efficiency.

The Job Requirements

• Minimum of OND/HND qualification or equivalent in Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field.
• Previous experience in open market merchandising, preferably in the FMCG sector.
• Must own a smartphone with proficiency in smartphone applications, especially data capturing and inventory management apps.
• Good organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Must own a smartphone.
• Minimum of 1-2 years of relevant experience in trade supervision or a similar role.
• We are seeking candidates with experience in the FMCG Sector.