Hospitality Support Executive

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

Support the Head of Hospitality with all the various projects & initiatives associated with the hospitality acting as a central project management function for strategic & rollout projects & Initiatives.

What You'll Be Doing

- Acts as the project management for the function
- Develops & manages various data analytics & reporting tools for hospitality business to monitor business performance & inform decision making
- Responsible for delivery upgrade & cost
- Develop merchandising plan for all stores & liaise with visual merchandising
- Serves as financial data analytics point for the business optimism for system upgrade
- Acts as the R&D collection point for F&B, design and technology

Functional Roles and Responsibilities
- Provides data-driven input based on historical trends, customer and market analytics, and regulatory changes to inform decision-making
- Works closely with key business stakeholders to drive all strategic projects for Hospitality business including policy and process gap analysis and improvement, performance improvement, and other ad hoc initiatives, from start through completion

Requirements

About You

Education/Certification and Continued Education
- A bachelor's degree preferably in Hospitality Management, Business, Finance or any other relevant field such as Supply-Chain Management

Years of Experience
- Min of 5 to 7 years of relevant experience.

Knowledge and Skills
- Good knowledge of Hospitality/F&B business
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and MS office as well as relevant financial analysis and planning tools
- Strong financial planning, modeling & data analytics skills
- Strong Project Management skills

Languages
- English fluency including very good verbal and written communication and presentation skills

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.