Assistant Manager - Retail Marketing

Transguard Group was established in 2001 and has diversified significantly, we lead in the fields of Cash Services, Security Services, Manpower Services, Facilities Management & Aviation. Transguard Group is the UAE’s most trusted business support and outsourcing provider and has a large, dynamic, and culturally diverse workforce with 50,000 employees!
We are currently recruiting Assistant Manager - Retail Marketing for our client based in Dubai. 

Purpose-

Maximize sell-outs by working with the dealers on store level. Strengthen profit-based upselling of premium products by optimizing SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) for each store. Minimize faulty products and obsolete inventory through store's inventory management.

Responsibility-

• Plan and execute Retail Operations with Key Accounts (Organized Retail, Brand-Store’s, Showrooms).
• Steer efforts to achieve weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual in-store display share & flooring targets.
• Facilitate decision making by senior management on Retail &
• Flooring strategies to meet demands of accounts by providing market inputs and recommendations associated with channel experience and end customer feedback.
• Promoter Performance & Review.
• Promoter Deployment & Resource utilization.
• ASM Effectiveness, Store Sell out performance (Promoter & Non-Promoter Locations).
• Display enhancement, Retail Store operations, Retailer
• Game Plan - Planning / Target Setting / Approvals.
• Build strong long-term relationships with Organized Retail accounts, at all levels.
• Manage and monitor budgets allocated.
• Brief and liaise with suppliers / agencies on display requirements.
• Identify requirements and work towards finding a solution to remove any barriers to Retail Operations.
• Maintain Flooring EO.
• Work closely with local teams in successful launch of new products & solutions and implement campaigns in the region with laser focus on accelerated Flooring and POSM deployment.

• Experience in a similar role in the industry. Must have experience in UAE / GCC.
• Understanding of the Consumer Electronics market dynamics and technology.
• Strong interpersonal, negotiation and communication skills.
• Ability to effectively present information to top management, public group and or client.
• Computer literate and advanced user of MS office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook).
• 5-7 years’ experience in Retail Marketing & Visual Merchandising.
• Outstanding presentation and interpersonal skills and should have excellent working knowledge of MS PowerPoint and Excel.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Management.
• Familiarity of retail marketing in a Luxury/Electronic goods or FMCG with experience in GCC.
• People management (Internal & External – Partners, Distributors and Agencies).
• Language: English (Excellent written and spoken).
• Solid understanding of product technology and passion for technology.