Regional Project Manager, Lighting

Cooper Fitch

UAE

Ref: GP932-641

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

A leading luxury retail and wholesale company in the region are looking for a Project Manager to work with their sales team to co-ordinate sales of luxury level lighting features to the hospitality industry.

This role will mean working closely with project managers and interior designers across the GCC in order to complete sales. The successful candidate will need strong commercial & technical knowledge and excellent communication skills.

The Role:

To develop and coordinate projects in lighting and architectural solutions across the GCC in order to meet targets while supporting the technical and commercial business teams.

* Access decision makers/influencers for projects .
* Manage to specify the products among major designers/specifiers
* Support the sales team and project managers in technical and commercial negotiations
* Concentrate on procurement and sales part to ensure projects are delivered and targets hit
* Develop a database of clients / designers / contractors / procurement agents in the given territory
* Coordinate business relationships with existing accounts
* Travel throughout assigned territory to visit regular and prospective accounts to increase product awareness
* Prepare market plans and strategies among given territory.
* Support after sales service among the whole territory

Requirements

The candidate:

* Western educated candidates will take preference
* Technical mind set with good commercial understanding
* Minimum 5 years work experience in a commercial field in the GCC - experience in lighting is not essential but preferred
* Extensive network of interior designers in the region
* Team player with a passion for the industry
* Exceptional English language skills - a second European language would be a plus
* Essential - driving licenses and own car
* Male candidates only will be considered as this role requires travel to Saudi, Kuwait and Qatar on a monthly bases

About the Company

At Cooper Fitch, we put the customer at the heart of everything we do. We provide recruitment, executive search and human resources advisory services to thousands of clients across the Middle East, we have been delivering services in the region since 1997. Our team is your team, we firmly believe in delivering first class committed search services. It is our mission to help build the best talent in the market. Our services are tailored to your every need, we have spent nearly twenty years developing an extensive database of top tier talent in the region. We also aim to help you protect and retain your people with our world-class assessment, testing and advisory facilities. We provide both valuable market updates and compensation and benefits analysis to complete the full spectrum of human resources services.

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