Strategy & Operations Retail Manager � New Lifestyle Brand � Dubai Salary: 40,000 p/m A fantastic opportunity has arisen to lead the retail operations of an exclusive new homegrown lifestyle brand within the UAE market. The initial project will be to create a unique retail village integrated within an exclusive residential community within the city of Dubai. The Role The successful candidate will help create and deliver the vision/strategy of a creating a family destination offering luxury lifestyle choices which encompasses outdoor living, art & culture, home and lifestyle, healthy and sustainable living, garden, nursery and nature, organic foods, gourmet restaurants and boutique hospitality. This is a very rare opportunity to contribute to the conception of an exciting project and deliver and landmark family retail and leisure destination for the UAE. The design stage is already underway. The successful candidate will join an established corporate team operating as a master developer of a high-end luxury community in Dubai. As the successful candidate you will possess: A formidable track record in lifestyle retailing across a broad range of relevant quality industries and products preferably in the ME region Strategic and operational knowledge of all operations including Finance, Merchandising, Supply Chain Management, Pricing, Cost Reduction, Sales & Marketing, Inventory Management and other areas of General Retail Management Ability to lead and develop a team capable of delivering exceptional knowledge-based customer services The ability to break the corporate mould in order to deliver something bespoke, refreshing, innovative, quality driven whilst commercially viable � an alternative to big box retail Ability to work with the in-house senior management team, FM, Architects, PR/Marketing to ensure the retail village is planned and delivered with consideration of commercial and operational factors.

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