Country Manager

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JOB DESCRIPTION / ROLE

Employment: Full Time

UAE Country Manager

A new client to Irwin & Dow for 2019 are seeking an experienced UAE Country Manager within the F&B industry. An instantly recognizable brand with both F&B and retail outlets across the globe, our client is well established within the industry as one of the leading luxury brands. With extensive business development plans over the next 2-5 years, the new role of UAE Country Manager will be an essential part of the expansion plans across the Middle East region and on a wider international scale.

This role requires a highly motivated and energetic individual to guide, coach and support the team of approximately 140 employees to provide the highest standards of customer service delivery at all times. You will be responsible for all locations within the UAE on an operational level, with the Area Management team reporting directly into you. In turn this role will report to the Managing Director for the MENA region. As the Country Manager, you are wholly responsible for the profitability of all outlets and ensuring timely delivery of products and supplies in coordination with the logistics team. It is therefore essential that the successful applicant is extremely commercially aware and able to re-act quickly to maximise sales and profit in order to be one step ahead of the competition. You will also possess an excellent grasp of financial analysis including full responsibility of P&L, OPEX, ATV, UPT, RevPash, menu profitability, employee cost and overall productivity.

You will be a strong leader whom is able to engage employees at all levels of seniority across the business and make the organisation an employer of choice for the future within the F&B industry. This fantastic opportunity of UAE Country Manager for this luxurious and extremely well established brand, provides a great challenge for an experienced individual seeking to remain within the luxury F&B market or an Area Manager looking for their next step into a more senior role.

REQUIREMENTS

To ensure you are successfully shortlisted it is essential that you have been exposed to the F&B industry at management level within a café or restaurant environment. Experience in the management of a large F&B team, employee coaching, ROI analysis and full P&L responsibilities are required for an engaging and energetic Country Manager to influence others and maximize profitability within the UAE. With a minimum of 3-5 years’ experience it is expected that you will be extremely hands on and therefore a great degree of flexibility is required for this vacancy.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

Irwin & Dow was established in 2013 to provide clients with a unique and highly personalised recruitment service, providing the very top calibre of candidates across the business support and secretarial function.

We provide a refreshing approach, working in close partnership with clients and candidates across diverse industry sectors; large MNC’s, government & semi -government entities, SME’s, local businesses and in the start-up and UHNWI support framework.

Great people equal great success: all our candidates are interviewed personally by a member of the team, and we develop longstanding and in-depth relationships with our clients, understanding their corporate culture and goals to ensure a successful outcome for both parties.

Our values of discretion and diplomacy are paramount, and we are pleased to be a partner of choice for clients and candidates.

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