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Job description / Role
Store Manager - Dubai - Western Educated
My client is looking for a Store Manager to further develop an established and reputable brand to a successfully performing retail operation and to implement best practices retail management.
The main tasks are:
• Ensuring profitability of the retail outlet
• Managing the P & L and entire store operations (staff, stock, purchasing, admin)
• Manage customer relationship, service and customer satisfaction
• Manage brand, marketing and communications
• Ensure efficient operation and team management
• Process management
• Future expansion
• P & L management
• Achieve financial objectives by preparing an annual budget; scheduling expenditures; analyzing variances; initiating corrective actions.
• Complete store operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.
• Retain & motivate store staff by coaching, mentoring, training and leading team.
• Identifies current and future customer requirements by establishing rapport with potential and actual customers
• Ensures availability of merchandise and services by approving contracts; maintaining inventories.
• Formulates pricing policies by reviewing merchandising activities; determining additional needed sales promotion; authorizing clearance sales; studying trends.
• Markets merchandise by studying advertising, sales promotion, and display plans; analyzing operating and financial statements for profitability ratios.
• Visual Display & Merchandising
• Maintains the stability and reputation of the store by complying with legal requirements
• Determines marketing strategy changes by reviewing operating and financial statements and departmental sales records.
• Ensure customer satisfaction
• Ensure best in class product display and demo
• Suggest Retail Promotions and Offers on Monthly Basis
• Maintain customer data base
• Ensure stock availability at all times
• Update Recommended Retail Price on Display
• Study competition model , pricing and policies to take corrective measures
• Suggest improvement areas to increase Revenue and Margins
• Daily/weekly/monthly sales revenue report to be generated
Requirements
Ideally the candidate should have:
• 8 to 10 years of Store / Outlet management experience (preferably stand alone store, but maybe also large department store section management)
• Must have managed an entire operations with P&L (either independent store or department section)
• Must have managed teams of not less than 5-10 staff
• Candidate must handle large / diversified portfolio of products
• Ideal if candidate has achieved business turn-around in previous company
• Beneficial if candidate has experience in setting up franchisee business
• Products: first choice: Fabric / Garments / sewing machines/ related but not limited to
• Also Second choice: consumer electronics, house appliances, life style products;
• Pricing,/ Purchasing, Vendor Relationships,
• Market Knowledge
Business & Professional skills:
• Dynamic, Go Getter , Process Driven , Result Oriented , Self Motivated, Customer Focus,
Management capability:
• Team management, Staffing, mentor & leader, strong communication
Expert Knowledge in specific areas:
• Computer & system skills specify which
• Microsoft Excell, Word, Sage Pastel or any ERP system
About the Company
The Adecco Group is the world’s leading talent advisory and solutions company. We proudly make a difference in the working lives of 3.5 million people every year. Our culture is entrepreneurial and inclusive, and we are united by our passion for making a difference in the world of work. We work with over 100,000 organizations in 60 countries, enabling their success. We have 35,000 people working with us across more than 60 countries and territories.
Adecco has been rapidly growing in the Middle East since 2008, developing a substantial footprint throughout the region. We work across 250 different clients, Adecco has more than 62 full time employees, working in 4 offices, servicing all countries across the GCC region. We offer Temporary Staffing, Permanent Placement, Executive Search, Assessments, Visa And Payroll, Outsourcing, PRO Solutions customised as per client requirements. Adecco Middle East Head Office is based in Dubai with a branch at Abu Dhabi.