Posted
Ref: HP324-883
Job description / Role
About Us
As a leader in luxury retail in the Middle East, Al Tayer Group's retail division, Al Tayer Insignia, hosts a portfolio of some of the world's best luxury brands in the fashion, jewellery, home and department store categories. Complementing its position in luxury retail, Al Tayer Insignia has also built new frontiers in lifestyle retail, representing leading brands in the Beauty, Home, Fashion and Hospitality sectors. Our brands include Bloomingdales, Harvey Nichols and Armani to name just a few!
About The Role
Responsible for tracking, improving and safeguarding the quality of Arabic content of the web sites which includes translation, editing and performing quality check. Understand the brand's tone of voice and be able to translate it seamlessly for a native audience, aware of the differences between our Arabic and English audiences.
What you'll be doing
- Manage the translation of the English content into Arabic across all channels including but not limited to landing pages, website/app content, microsites, emails, social media, to optimize the customer experience, contribution to conversion, engagement, page view, bounce rate, time spent on page and click through.
- Reinterpret the brand voice for the Arabic audience whilst maintaining an entirely native tone. Ensure the brands tone of voice is accurate, informative and consistent throughout the site.
- Liaising with the Online Content Marketing Guru & Online Content Marketing Manager on tonality of copy across the site.
- Sub edit and translate the product page according to in-house style guides; checking accuracy of copy against images as well as grammar and spelling. Ensuring all copies are clear and concise and localized where relevant.
- Ensuring that the editorial content across all channels reflect the aims, values, house style and tone of each site.
- Where possible, check accuracy of upload by checking all click-through functionality, size and fit tabs and dropdowns on the product page.
- Support with any other copy update needed on the Arabic web site.
- Translate the weekly email copy.
- Audit the web site to determine where translations are missing.
Requirements
About You
Education
- Degree in Foreign Languages, Communication or Translation
Experience
- 4+ years of experience as a translator, copywriter and/or language specialist
- Native speaker Arabic and fluent in English,
- Experience working in an E-Commerce environment, preferably fashion retail, is a plus.
Functional Skills
- A proven ability to work quickly and efficiently with accuracy and attention to detail.
- Ability to post-edit and/or translate from English
- Good working knowledge of MS Office and CMS systems
- Proven experience of digital translating/trans creating and sub editing
- Sound knowledge of women's luxury fashion, seasonal trends, designers and brands as well as strong commercial awareness
- Experience working in a fast-moving entrepreneurial environment with competing deadlines and priorities
- Self-motivated, takes initiative
About the Company
Established in 1979, Al Tayer Group is a privately-held, diversified company with operations in 12 countries in the Middle East and beyond. With over 7,800 employees from 95 different nationalities, the Group has its headquarters in Dubai, UAE.
Al Tayer Group operates leading, quality-focused businesses in automobile sales and service, luxury and lifestyle retail, perfumes and cosmetics distribution, engineering as well as interiors contracting. The Groups portfolio includes several of the worlds leading brands such as Armani, Bvlgari, Banana Republic, Ford, Ferrari, Gucci, Gap, Harvey Nichols and Maserati. The Group operates over 180 stores across multiple markets in the Middle East. In addition, Al Tayer Group has investments in commercial real estate, contracting, supply chain management, precision tools manufacturing and travel agency services.