Luxury Brand Director

Job description / Role

Our client is a successful high end luxury retailer based in Dubai. Currently recruiting a Brand Director to work in order to achieve commercial needs of the business.

PURPOSE:

The Brand Director Middle East & India represents the company and is responsible for the development of the brand in Middle East. The specific tasks are:

• Transmit the global brand strategy into local Marketing & Distribution concepts; supervise its implementation and building the image of the brand.
• Develop the sales budget and take the responsibility for its achievement.
• Special focus and leadership for the development of the retail business in the region.
• Key Account Management and building long lasting customer relationship.
• General Management of the operational tasks, leadership of the local team.
• Monitoring market trends, competitor environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible of the sales results in the territories as described above with special focus and attention on Retail business.
• Building a state of the art distribution network.
• Responsible of the regional market research and development of the local marketing strategy in coordination with Headquarters.
• Contact of local clients and further development of the sales network.
• Setting and fulfilling of sales goals, analysis of sales statistics, determination of sales potential and inventory requirements, monitoring of customer preferences and information transfer to headquarters.
• Responsible of implementation of local advertising, promotion, marketing, CRM and public relations in coordination with headquarters.

Requirements

• Arabic speaker. Good Knowledge of German would be an advantage.
• Degree in Sales & Marketing or equivalent.
• 10+ years of extensive international working experience in the luxury goods industry, preferably in the watch-making industry.
• Excellent product knowledge, high level of interest in luxury timepieces and willingness to extend product knowledge.
• High level of creativity and strong communication skills.
• Knowledge of Middle East region would be an advantage.
• Extensive travelling.

About the Company

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