Ref: RP959-05

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

YOOX NET A PORTER GROUP is seeking an exceptionally motivated and talented Personal Shopper in our newly established joint venture between YNAP and Mohamed Alabbar's Symphony Investments. The joint venture will be headquartered in Dubai, and will serve the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and Oman, with a view to expand to other countries in the Middle East and North Africa in the future.

The Personal Shopper will be responsible to partner with our NET-A-PORTER Personal Shopping team in the UK and focus on building customers in our GCC region. Our Dubai based Personal Shopper will champion our ability to provide a personal shopping service to our customers in both Arabic and English.

Role purpose:
The role is primarily sales orientated, and will involve creating relationships with customers through managing their enquiries, as well as managing waiting lists for most wanted items. Most importantly, you will provide exceptional service levels to ensure that our customers enjoy the best shopping experience, the latest trends and best designs – where ever they are!

Key Responsibilities:
• Build active relationships with V.I.P customers and drive pre-sales.
• Have a proactive sales approach combined with excellence and consistency of service to internal and external customers.
• Support the customer care team to resolve V.I.P customer issues as necessary.
• To actively promote department functions to clientele through excellence and consistency of customer service, thereby encouraging growth of one-to-one relationships with customers
• To maximise pre-sales opportunities through customer communication and waiting list management

Customer Relationship Management:
• Monitor orders file to ensure awareness of customer shopping patterns.
• Refer to customer records to develop individual customer in addition to analysis from customer insight and the marketing analyst.
• Use profiles to identify proactive sales opportunities and build lasting relationships with customers.

Sales Orientation:
• Maintain personal sales orientation.
• Ensure that sales leads are identified and prioritised as well as create and implement new selling ideas to ensure sales targets are met.
• Maximise use of HTML emails and custom lists as part of daily email correspondence.
• Increase spend of individuals and develop customer loyalty through understanding customer’s style needs: identify link sale opportunities for requested items, suggest additional pieces to their taste from weekly uploads.
• Ensure prompt follow up activity with customers acquired through Personal Shopping Events/Promotions to build lasting relationships.

Maintenance of Product and Business awareness:
• Work closely with Xtracker, Look Books and the Retail team to ensure maximum knowledge of forthcoming stock availability to for customer benefit
• Communicate any waiting list / customer request patterns to Managers as well as completing highlights and key points for weekly management report
• Record email stats on a daily basis so that business patterns can be recognised and acted on by management
• Maintain general level of market competitor awareness on and off line through reference to other websites and editorial, as well as seasonal comparative shop in London

Additional Responsibilities:
• Assist with and participate V.I.P events and marketing / partnership events as required
• Ensure product arrival notification emails are sent, special orders processed and other team member’s workload is covered in their absence
• To work alongside team on seasonal customer mailouts

Requirements

Skills and Experience:
• Previous experience as a sales assistant with client book / personal shopper for a luxury fashion brand desirable.
• Fluent in English and Arabic (written and spoken)
• Extensive knowledge of the current trends and fashions within women wear.
• You will need to be able to write and speak one of the following languages; Italian, German, Russian, Arabic or French, whilst also being fluent in spoken and written English.
• Excellent communication skills, specifically with regard to building relationships with customers.
• Excellent keyboard and written skills, articulate with good spelling and grammar.
• Numerate with strong computer literacy particularly in Excel and
• Ability to work hard and play hard, as part of a growing team.
• Excellent eye for detail and organisational skills.
• Proven ability to work to stringent deadlines.
• Pro-active and able to show initiative/ideas to constantly improve the customer experience and drive sales.
• Must have the confidence to contribute ideas to the working processes at NET-A-PORTER – even those outside your day-to-day remit.

Reports to
Personal Shopping Manager - London

Location
You will be based at our offices in Dubai (with training for up to 3 months in London initially)

Hours
Your hours will be 37.5 hours per week over 5 days, and may include one day at weekends.

About the Company

YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP is the world's leading online luxury fashion retailer. The Group is a Global company with Anglo-Italian roots, the result of a game-changing merger, which in October 2015, brought together YOOX GROUP and THE NET -A-PORTER GROUP; the two companies had revolutionized the luxury fashion industry since their birth in 2000.

YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP is a unique business with an unrivalled offering including multi-brand in-season online stores NET-A-PORTER and MR PORTER, and multi-brand off-season online stores YOOX and THE OUTNET, as well as numerous ONLINE FLAGSHIP STORES, all "Powered by YNAP". Through a joint venture established in 2012, YOOX NET -A-PORTER GROUP has partnered with Kering to manage the ONLINE FLAGSHIP STORES of several of the French group's luxury brands.

In 2016, YOOX NET-A-PORTER GROUP joined forces with Symphony, an entity controlled by Mohamed Alabbar's family, to establish a ground-breaking joint venture to create the Middle East's undisputed leader for online luxury retail.

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