Regional Marketing Manager

Job description / Role

Are you a luxury retail marketing specialist who is looking to take your career to the next level with one of Dubai’s most well-loved brands?

We are currently recruiting a Brand and Retail Marketing Department Manager with 7 to 11 years of experience, and a strong proven track record of driving footfall to stores, to join the Michael Kors team in Dubai.

The Brand & Retail Marketing Department Manager is responsible for adapting the brand strategy and create the retail strategy for the region to meet business objectives and for defining and developing the adapted marketing tools to implement the brand strategy by market/store, working closely with the local marketers and commercial teams.

He/she also maintains the brand standards applied across all activities. He/She is responsible for setting up the store animation action plan and build customer knowledge in order to drive traffic in store and improve store profitability. He/She is responsible for managing the human capital in his/her area, directly or through subordinate managers, ensuring excellence of marketing performance.

Requirements

- Degree or certification in marketing (ideally an MBA)
- 7 to 11 years of marketing experience
- Strong proven track record with ability to drive footfall to store (preferably department store experience)
- Marketing of global brands in FMCG, B to B, Brand development, Digital marketing, Retail Marketing, ideally for multiple networks and multiple markets

Linguistic Skills
- English: Excellent written and spoken required
- French: preferable but not necessary
- Arabic: preferable but not necessary

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.