Flagship Store Director (Dubai Mall) Luxury Fashion

Job Description

Iconic Luxury fashion brands is seeking a Store Director for the Flagship store in Dubai Mall. An exciting opportunity to lead and inspire a team in a fast-paced retail environment. You will be effectively running the Boutique ensuring maximum profitability and productivity. You will be an inspiring and motivating leader and coach, developing the store team to higher performance. You will identify new business opportunities and implement actions to ensure your store meets sales targets and minimizing stock loss, shrinkage and store operating costs.

Responsibilities:

• Team Leadership & Engagement
• Ensure policies, operational standards and procedures are communicated, understood & implemented whilst also proposing any improvement actions.
• Monitor the shop floor and support the daily operations.
• Coach and develop the team, also ensuring that the team are fully trained and understand the Company systems relating to point of sale and cash handling/stock loss control
• Intensive training on product knowledge & daily briefing to the team.
• Excel at impactful visual merchandising and contribute to store appearance.
• Build customer loyalty by using the clienteling methods to understand customer behavior and retention.
• Collaborate with PR and work with fashion consultants in support to VIP customers.
• Support HR in recruitment, on boarding, training and development of the team.
• Maintain a leadership presence on the sales floor.
• Solution oriented. Address problems proactively and provide potential solutions
• Responsible for success and results of all areas of the business.

Requirements:

• Minimum 5+ years specialty luxury retail experience
• Existing International Clientele network
• Experience in managing VIP client events
• Demonstrated the ability to drive sales and grow business
• People management
• Strong knowledge of fashion, trends and specifically RTW product division
• Strong communication skills
• Proficient in MS Office (especially Excel, Word), Mac, and the ability to use a digital point-of-sale system
• Arabic Speaker is a plus