Travel Retail Manager

Job description / Role

The role involves fostering key relationships, optimizing business opportunities, and ensuring that the brands achieve their sales and market objectives while maintaining high standards of service and product representation.

Responsibilities:
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders in Duty Free and other travel retail accounts across the UAE, Qatar & Bahrain
- Identifying and developing new business opportunities to expand the brand's footprint within the travel retail sector while leveraging existing relationships
- Driving sales growth in the travel retail segment
- Monitoring and analyzing sales performance, ensuring the achievement of budgeted revenue and profitability
- Collaborating with internal brand teams to align sales strategies
- Working closely with brand and marketing teams to design and implement promotional activities tailored to travel retail audiences
- Ensuring optimal brand visibility and merchandising standards at all travel retail points of sale
- Leading and mentoring a team of retail professionals to achieve optimal performance in the travel retail space
- Conducting regular training sessions to ensure that staff are knowledgeable about the latest products, promotional strategies, and customer service standards.

- Arabic Language proficiency (spoken & written) is mandatory for this role
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business management or associated streams from a reputed institute
- At least 6-8 years of relevant Brand Management & Operations experience in Travel retail, luxury or high-end retail
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Good planning and organizing skills
- Effective people management
- Well versed in MS Office.

About the Company

Quest Search & Selection is a specialist recruitment consultancy with over 20 years' experience in sourcing the world's best candidates for the global Retail, FMCG and Hospitality sectors.

With offices in the UK & Dubai, we have an international presence and a global reach. Our recruiters place candidates locally and internationally for a wide variety of roles focusing on the following areas:

Retail Buying & Merchandising, E-commerce & Digital, Food & Beverage, Hotels, Hospitality & Operations, Retail Stores & Operations, HR & Recruitment, Procurement, Supply Chain & Logistics, Sales & Marketing, Technical and New Product Development.

We work in partnership with our clients who range from famous international brands within the Retail, Restaurant, Hotel and Consumer products space. Our reputation is built on our in-depth understanding of the industry and our consultants' skill, knowledge and passion for their sectors.