Work Location: Mekong Delta Region
Job Purpose: To manage and ensure best-in-class in-store execution across MT stores in the assigned region
Job Description:
1. Regional Execution Management
- Joint Business Plan with top stores
- Implement national field execution plans tailored to regional retail dynamics.
- Be Customer/Category Champion (if assigned) to drive execution excellence of the assigned customer(s) in collaboration with internal stakeholders (Key Account, Customer Strategy & Planning, …)
2. Execution Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
- Drive execution KPIs such as On-shelf Availability (OSA), Share-of-Shelf, secondary display location, rental compliance.
- Implement continuous improvement initiatives through Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and performance dashboards.
- Conduct regular market visits to assess compliance and identify improvement opportunities.
3. Cross-functional Alignment & Customer Relationship Management
- Act as key regional point of contact for store-level issues with Modern Trade partners.
- Collaborate with logistics and supply chain for availability and replenishment issues at store level.
- Build and nurture professional relationships with customer’s regional managers and top store managers to support in-store cooperation.
4. People Manager and Capability Development
- Build team capability in merchandising standards, in-store negotiation, perfect store execution and shopper engagement.
- Drive adoption of executional tools, dashboards and scorecards to track commercial and executional KPIs in real-time.
Key Metrics:
1. Commercial & Executional KPIs
- Growth/ Share Gain
- NIV/ Offtake by 1U/BU
- Perfect Store (%) by 1U/ BU
- OSA
- Secondary Display Location
- Rental Compliance
- NPD
2. Coverage & Productivity KPIs
- Store Coverage Compliance (%) % of planned store visits completed by field team ≥ …%
- Field Team Productivity Score Average number of effective calls/visits per rep per day
- 100% in-store team obtain License to Operate (L2O)
- CICO, geo fencing, SOP compliance, Timespent
- Attrition rate
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in business, Marketing, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Sales Operations, Field Sales, Retail Execution, or Modern Trade within FMCG/Consumer Goods; with at least 2 years in a people leadership role.
- Strong understanding of Modern Trade/Small Format (BHX, WCM, ...) retail operations, merchandising standards, Perfect Store, and execution KPIs (OSA, Share of Shelf, display compliance).
- Proven ability to analyze performance data, conduct root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills, with experience collaborating across Sales, Customer Strategy, Supply Chain, and retail partners.
- Demonstrated leadership, coaching, and capability-building skills, with proficiency in execution tracking tools, dashboards, and commercial performance reporting
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Supply Chain, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Sales Operations, Field Sales, Retail Execution, or Modern Trade within FMCG or Consumer Goods.
- At least 2 years of experience in a people leadership role.
- Strong understanding of Modern Trade and Small Format retail operations, merchandising standards, Perfect Store, OSA, Share of Shelf, and display compliance.
- Ability to analyze performance data, conduct root cause analysis, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Strong stakeholder management and relationship-building skills across Sales, Customer Strategy, Supply Chain, and retail partners.
- Demonstrated leadership, coaching, and capability-building skills.
- Proficiency with execution tracking tools, dashboards, and commercial performance reporting.
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