Ellen Mae Maraya
Merchandising Manager
Work History
****-** -
Current
Merchandising Manager
VS Marketing Corporation, Paranaque City,
Philippines
• Oversee inventory counts each week/ month to
maintain stock records and account for
shrinkage.
• Plan out sales cycles to develop and service
accounts by using product marketing,
prospecting, promotion, and merchandising for
product awareness and placement.
• Built comprehensive inventory systems to track
current supply chain data.
• Creates sales cycle plan to develop and service
accounts through product marketing,
prospecting, and product promotion.
• Established sales quotas and explained
performance expectations in routine meetings
to optimize sales and customer service.
• Develops productive relationships with key
account holders.
• Monitors stock levels and product sales to
determine purchasing needs.
• Maintained a comprehensive database of
supplier information, including contact details,
capabilities, pricing structures, and lead times.
• Increased supplier efficiency by negotiating
contracts and maintaining strong relationships
with vendors.
2012-09 -
2017-02
Category Merchandising Manager
SM Corporate Center, Head Office (Toy Kingdom),
Pasay City, Philippines
• Monitored company inventory to keep stock
levels and databases updated.
Contact
Address
Makati City, Philippines
1208
Phone
***********@*****.***
WWW
https://bold.pro/my/ellen
mae-maraya/270
Skills
Inventory management
Sales & Sales Trend
Analysis
Vendor communications
Merchandising
Data analysis
understanding
Reporting knowledge
Product Research and
Product Listing
Data Encoding
Microsoft
• Generated weekly, monthly, quarterly and
yearly reports on purchasing operations..
• Solved diverse supply chain problems involving
numerous sources, logistics and scheduling
factors.
• Purchased new products and oversaw inventory
stocking and availability.
• Maintain 3 months stock ratio to maintain stock
levels and generate profit and increase in sales
by at least 10% from last year's sales.
• Reduced out-of-stock instances by conducting
regular audits, adjusting inventory counts, and
communicating discrepancies to management.
• Led product research to understand market,
competition and customer needs.
2009-07 -
2012-01
Stategic Business Unit Head
Promosphere Inc.(L'oreal and Century Pacific
Account), Mandaluyong City, Philippines
• Created plans and communicated deadlines to
complete projects on time.
• Participated in continuous improvement by
generating suggestions, engaging in problem-
solving activities to support teamwork.
• Secured high-value accounts through
consultative selling, effective customer solutions and promoting compelling business
opportunities.
• Analyzed account details such as usage, sales
data and client comments to enhance
understanding of effectiveness and client needs.
• Trained new staff on job duties, company
policies and safety procedures for rapid
onboarding.
• Used coordination and planning skills to achieve results according to schedule.
• Managed team of employees with 10
supervisors and more than 600 merchandisers.
Overseeing hiring, training and professional
growth of employees.
2003-07 -
2009-01
Merchandising Execution Area
Supervisor
Excel & Spreadsheets
Loom & Canva
Email Communication
Social Media
Graphic Design
Administrative work
Promo Edge Corportion (Mead Johnson Account),
Makati City, Philippines
• Maintained clean, adequately stocked and
organized store by streamlining daily operations
and introducing new procedures.
• Liaised with sales, marketing and management
teams to develop solutions and accomplish
shared objectives.
• Mentored new sales associates to contribute to
store's positive culture.
• Set and updated weekly work schedules to
meet coverage demands by considering factors
like expected customer levels, planned
promotions and individual employee strengths.
• Recruited, hired and trained over 500 new team
members in month.
• Examined incoming inventory, merchandised
shelves and prevented shrinkage.
• Managed documents by organizing forms,
making photocopies, filing records, preparing
correspondence, and creating reports.
• Produced monthly reports with advanced Excel
spreadsheet functions.
• Enhanced visual appeal of displays, resulting in higher customer engagement levels
Education
1999-06 -
2003-04
Bachelor of Science: Marketing
Management
St. Paul College of Manila - Manila, Philippines
Languages
English
Tagalog