Beauty District Sales Leader - GCC, 6-Month Contract

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,880 - 290,160; Full time

Job summary

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is seeking a District Executive to lead beauty retail performance across a defined district in Dubai, UAE on a 6-month contract. This field-based role (90% in market) focuses on developing Beauty Advisors and delivering exceptional store execution.

You will travel across the GCC, mentor teams, optimize visual merchandising and KPIs, and build strong retailer partnerships. Fluency in Arabic and English is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in retail sales, cosmetics, luxury retail or FMCG.
• Proven experience managing multiple retail locations and field teams.
• Ability to obtain visas easily and desire to travel frequently across the GCC.
• Strong people leadership, coaching and performance management skills.
• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Strong commercial mindset with a proactive, solution-oriented approach.
• Experience managing multi-brand retail environments is highly desirable.
• Strong visual merchandising and retail operations knowledge.
• Fluent in Arabic and English (essential).

Responsibilities

• Drive retail sales performance across a defined district.
• Lead, coach and develop Beauty Advisors and Consultants.
• Build strong partnerships with retailer store teams.
• Ensure excellence in visual merchandising, stock management, testers and planogram execution.
• Support key launches, promotions and in-store activations.
• Monitor performance, productivity and retail KPIs across doors.
• Deliver actionable market, competitor and consumer insights.

Skills

Retail sales

Cosmetics industry

Luxury retail

FMCG

Field team leadership

People leadership

Relationship management

Commercial mindset

Multi-brand retail environments

Visual merchandising

Retail operations

Arabic & English bilingual

Job description

The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is seeking a District Executive to lead beauty retail performance across a defined district in Dubai, UAE on a 6-month contract. This field-based role (90% in market) focuses on developing Beauty Advisors and delivering exceptional store execution.

You will travel across the GCC, mentor teams, optimize visual merchandising and KPIs, and build strong retailer partnerships. Fluency in Arabic and English is essential.