Area Manager at Majid Al Futtaim

• As the area manager you will be responsible for leading the commercial activities of a region of stores including super and hypermarkets, in this rapidly growing region.
• Yyou will have decision-making responsibilities ranging from day to day trading issues to identifying areas of growth and business improvement by assessing financial and administrative processes in the stores. 
• As an expert visual merchandiser you know how to make stores attractive to consumers and how to forge strong working relationships with suppliers and partners, while ensuring that stores align with the Majid Al Futtaim Retail concepts.
• As the operational leader of the region, you won’t only be focussed on operational activity, you will also be the finance expert, the people expert and the marketing and communication expert ensuring that we support our people through growth and career development, achieve our financial objectives and continue to develop a strong brand
• To build strong working relationships and to ensure optimal delivery across your region the majority of your time will be spent at store visits meeting with operational and leadership teams to identify risks and opportunities. 

What you will need to be successful:

• To be successful in this role you will already have had at least 5 years of experience managing a small region of grocery retail stores and are used to managing and leading a distributed team.
• You have a proven track record of growing the business and achieving commercial targets.
• You are fluent in English and ideally another local language.