Makeup Artist

Job description / Role

KENDO Inc. is a San Francisco-based luxury cosmetic brand creation center. Launched in 2008. Named after a play on "can do", KENDO, known for bringing intensely remarkable, high quality beauty products to market including Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, KVD Beauty, Ole Henriksen. Kendo originated as a division of Sephora, and became its own entity exclusive to Sephora, backed by LVMH in 2015.

KENDO middle East is based in Dubai operating for the gulf regions, including UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain.

What you'll be doing

At Chalhoub, we share incredible experiences together! As a Makeup Artist you will achieve optimum sales and targets by ensuring a high level of Guest Experience and professional standards. You will be responsible for providing makeup demonstrations to customers and guiding them through the right make up combinations. You will also be accountable for counter cleanliness, stock replenishment, handling new launches, promotion of products and merchandising.

- Build and maintain guest experience standards in order to build strong loyalty
- Address customers' queries about products, prices, availability, product uses, and services
- Communicate with customers to assess their needs, provide assistance in satisfying those needs and meeting or surpassing customers' expectations
- Advise customers on product ranges best suited to their needs
- Demonstrate usage and benefits of various brands and products
- Generate sales, while achieving line and sales targets, using make up knowledge
- Push make up sales during events, promotions and launches
- Sell-out target tracking at store level
- Generate daily sales reports
- Participate in achieving incentives
- Post launch sales tracking at store level
- Ensure monthly make-up sessions are reached
- Ensure merchandising levels in the store are met as per the brand guidelines
- Ensure in store stock replenishment in the appropriate shelves/counters, at appropriate times
- Report stock shortages using the stock order form
- Ensure stock receipt as per set procedures
- Advise customers on the most appropriate range of products to use
- Demonstrate usage of various make up products
- Assist and guide customers in make-up application

Requirements

What you'll need to succeed

- Makeup artistry skills
- Experience with a makeup brand in retail setting
- Passion to sell and work in a fast paced environment

What we can offer you

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

About the Company

The Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East since 1955. As an expert in retail, distribution and marketing services based in Dubai, the group has become a major player in the fashion, beauty and gift sectors regionally.

By blending its Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury, Chalhoub Group is building brands in the region, by offering service excellence to all its partners and a unique experience to its customers through its passionate teams.

With a growing workforce of more than 9,000 people, implemented in 14 countries, as well as the operating of over 470 retail outlets, the group's success is attributed to its most valued asset of highly skilled and dedicated teams. Professionalism and passion are what fuel the Chalhoub Group's competitive edge in today's market.

By being committed to implementing sustainable practices into their business, the Chalhoub Group has been awarded in 2013 the CSR Label from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce.