Experience

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  Costco Wholesale UK

  • Retail
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Inventory Control Specialist - Water & Beverage

    • Oct 2022 - Present

    Inventory planning and managing ordering for one of the most fast paced categories - Water & Beverages in Costco UK, Iceland & Sweden. Orchestrate the price setting, seamless implementation of commercial activities, new items launches and managing vendors’ funding support. Assist in negotiating terms and supports with vendors. Build trust and rapport with internal & external stakeholders. - Identified the potential of an Asian beverage giant and the official supplier, negotiated support and launched in the business with successful results.

  • Inventory Control Specialist - Wine & Spirit

    • Oct 2021 - Sep 2022

    Inventory planning and managing ordering for Costco UK & Iceland for the category of Spirits. Orchestrate the price setting, seamless implementation of commercial activities, new items launches and managing vendors’ funding support. Assist in negotiating terms and supports with vendors. Build trust and rapport internally and externally.• Proven to be fast learner, resilient to restart career journey from the scratch to gain in-depth understanding of local consumer market dynamic, channel mix and trade practice for next level of career advancement.

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  Royal Shalom Group Holdings Hong Kong

  • Business Development Manager

    • Jun 2020 - Nov 2020

    Head up the Business Development Team to develop strategic business plans by partnering with the distributing FMCG brands and OEM products, and driving sales by omni-channel. Lead the marketing team to revamp corporate brand image by store layouts, products, pricing and promotions. Project leader of online sales platform and facilitator of CBEC to cope with the new shopping behaviour.

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  Silroc International HK Limited

  • Hong Kong SAR

  • Sales and Marketing Manager

    • May 2019 - May 2020
    • Hong Kong SAR

    Head of Sales and Marketing, formulate effective Go-to-Market plans to deliver financial budgets. Led brand campaigns development and marketing communications to increase brand penetration, distribution, hence sales and profitability. Managed field sales team to achieve budgets. Ensure flawless execution of marketing campaigns and trade activation.

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  LEGO Group

  • HK

  • Senior Key Account Manager

    • Jan 2017 - Aug 2018
    • HK

    Managed a global toy-specialist key account (a regional key account), formulate & deliver strategic business plans and demand plans to achieve the company targets. Negotiated terms and promotion supports with clients. Project owner of VMI (Vendor Managed Inventory), Category Management, thematic promotions development and instore merchandising.

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  Nestlé

  • Kowloon Bay

  • Sales Manager, Key Account, Grocery HK

    • Mar 2016 - Nov 2016
    • Kowloon Bay

    Strategic business development for Grocery products ranging from Adult Milk Powder, Infant Milk Formula, Confectionery & Beverage across channels including Chained Drug Stores, Convenience Stores and Japanese Dept Stores to deliver target sales and profitability.Led a team of account managers to extend their fullest potential of being a professional key account specialist.

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  PepsiCo Hong Kong LLC

  • Tsim Sha Tsui

  • Sales Manager, Foods

    • Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
    • Tsim Sha Tsui

    Manage a renouned official distributor to deliver sales & profitability targets across different channels, by channel strategy, effective promotion mix, pricing strategy & product mix. Work closely with different stakeholders to streamline the overall working process hence improve efficiency.

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  Circle K Convenience Stores (HK) Ltd

  • Senior Category Manager

    • Aug 2007 - Dec 2014

    Held consumer-centric category vision, proven traced record with significant growth in category market share by formulating category strategies and tactics for Packaged Beverage, Beer & Health Supplement based on sharp analysis on shoppers behavior and all available market data under keen competitive retail landscape.Delivered sales targets and optimized profitability by mature vendor management and category management.

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  Wyeth (HK) Limited

  • Associate Customer Development Manager

    • Aug 2005 - Oct 2007

    Account servicing for Chained Drug stores, supermarkets as well as Japanese Stores.Delivered targeted sales and profitability by effective trade promotions and efficient trade spending.Ensure flawless execution.Built strong partnership with assigned customers for strategic business growth.

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  Swire Beverages

  • Account Manager

    • Aug 2000 - Aug 2005

    Key account management for Supermarkets for a wide range of products.Delivered target sales and contributionBuilt strong partnership with assigned Key Accounts for business developmentDeveloped effective trade promotions, ensure flawless execution of planned promotions and efficient trade spend management.