Shop Manager

Azadea Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent retail company in Dubai seeks a Shop Manager to lead customer service and inventory operations. The ideal candidate has a Bachelor's degree and at least 3 years of managerial experience in retail, ideally in sports goods. Responsibilities include ensuring high-quality customer interactions, managing stock, training staff, and overseeing compliance with brand standards. Fluency in English and proficiency in MS Office are required. Join a dynamic team focused on sports and customer loyalty.

Qualifications

• 3 years of experience in a managerial role, preferably in retail.
• Active participation in at least one sporting activity.
• Expert knowledge of sporting events.

Responsibilities

• Greet customers and ensure their needs are met with quality service.
• Monitor inventory activities and analyze sales performance.
• Recruit, train, and evaluate team members for optimal performance.
• Prepare staff schedules and manage shop's compliance with brand standards.

Skills

Fluency in English

Proficiency in MS Office

Skills for Sports Goods retail

Developing and Motivating Others

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Shop Manager (SHO000227)

Description

• Greet customers, offer assistance and serve them in order to ensure their needs and complaints are answered in a timely manner with quality and customer service standards creating customer loyalty and portfolio.
• Ensure a smooth and efficient receiving process of items/shipments as well as monitor all kind of inventory activities such as cycle counts and stock movements including transfers between shops, transfers to/from warehouse, damaged items, devolution, etc.
• Analyze hourly/daily/weekly sales performance, monitor selling items, missing sizes/ items and collection rotation (in coordination with BM and VM) in order to identify replenishment needs, place accurate orders, meet stock performance objectives and maximize sales and sellout
• Detect, anticipate and provide regular feedbacks on customers' needs, markets trends and competitors activities affecting the region/ market
• Recruit, train, motivate and evaluate team members to ensure that they have the necessary skill base and required image and that they are optimally enabled to maximize their potential and contribution to the company; conduct daily Japanese meetings to keep the staff informed and engaged
• Prepare staff schedule based on budgeted hours and/ or visitors' traffic, daily sales targets, events, operational needs (including shipments, stock count, sale, etc.) as well as ensure the effective communication of sales plans and set daily and hourly targets to the Shop/Department team
• Log/update all commercial and operational information as well as various requests on the provided platforms (Helpdesks, Events, Loss Prevention application, etc.) in a timely and accurate manner
• Manage annual allocated budget by monitoring expenditure up to set limits, optimizing and reducing costs where possible and reporting variances versus budget (validating it with DM/BM first)
• Oversee the shop's image and ensure its compliance with the brand’s standards, verify and follow up on the cleanliness, display and maintenance of the shop including the window, cash and stock room

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 3 years of experience in a managerial role; Previous experience in the industry/retail is a major plus
• Fluency in English
• Proficiency in MS Office
• Skills Specific for Sports Goods retail: Collective Game, Project oriented, Athlete/ambassador, Enthusiastic, Contributor, Empathic, Entrepreneur and responsible
• Specific for Sports Goods retail: Active participation in at least one sporting activity and expert knowledge of sporting events
• Developing and Motivating Others: level 4