Job Description
Our client is a well-established lifestyle brand
with retail outlets across prominent Dubai malls.
We are recruiting a UAE experienced regional
retail manager who will have full accountability for each store’s revenue and
profitability and provide people management leadership.
Candidates must have a minimum of 3 years in UAE
lifestyle retail management with P&L responsibility and in-depth knowledge
of retail mall trends and best practices.
Role Summary
- Establish a comprehensive retail operations
framework for all stores to ultimately improve customer footfall, maximize
sales, control costs and enhance the brand presence to ultimately increase
customer spend and profitability.
- Strategic product buying and pricing, product line
development and inventory management.
- Establish visual merchandising standards and
ensure adherence across all stores.
- Collaborate with the marketing team to
conceptualize campaigns and activities to increase brand awareness, customer
engagement, footfall and retention.
- Team leadership and development – recruit,
onboard, lead and mentor retail store teams, fostering a high-performance
culture; identify talent gaps, develop training programs, and build retail
talent pipelines.
- Develop and implement retail strategies that drive
store productivity and business growth through process improvement, brand
development, exceptional customer experience and the right product mix and
availability.
- Establish profitable partnerships with mall
management.
Mandatory Skills & Experience
- 10 years’ experience in retail with a minimum of 3
years in retail management in the UAE with a strong focus on operational
excellence, mystery shopping, performance management and market share growth.
- Commercial, financial and data analysis acumen -
analyze performance metrics, identify areas of improvement, and implement
action plans to achieve targets.
- Proven team leadership experience to hire and
build high performance teams to enhance customer engagement and service to
increase brand engagement, revenue and profitability goals.
- UAE driving license is mandatory.
Candidate Profile
- Currently living in the United Arab Emirates –
must be able to live in Dubai.
- Fluent in English.
- Strong entrepreneurial and strategic mindset,
results driven, resilient to challenge the status quo to achieve operational
excellence.
- Hands on and can-do approach, able to communicate
effectively and manage people remotely.
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