Job Opportunities in United Arab Emirates

GMG is a global well-being company retailing, distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport, food and health sectors. Its vision is to inspire people to win in ways that make the world better. Today, GMG’s investments span across four key verticals: GMG Sports, GMG Food, GMG Health, and GMG Consumer Goods. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family, it has become a leading global company, affiliated with the world’s most successful and respected brands in the well-being sector. Working across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, GMG has introduced more than 120 brands into its markets.


About the role
The role holder will be responsible for managing respective retail outlets in their area so as to ensure maximum sales, maximum profitability, and effective stock management to increase customer satisfaction and ensure continued business growth. The job holder will also be responsible for maintaining the desired visual merchandising, retail operations, customer service, replenishment, recovery standards in his/her area in the store in all aspects.

Core Responsibility

• The role entails overseeing various aspects of store operations with the aim of maximizing sales and productivity.

• This involves monitoring and optimizing commercial Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) such as Conversion rate, Units Per Transaction (UPT), Average Basket Value (AVB), and Traffic to enhance sales performance.

• It also involves staying abreast of local trading patterns, competitor activities, and the trading environment enables adaptation of strategies accordingly.

• Efficient deployment of resources is crucial to maximize productivity and control costs within budgetary constraints, including managing overtime, stock, and consumables.

• Ensuring proper implementation of promotions according to guidelines and identifying local and seasonal promotional opportunities to capitalize on are essential aspects of the role.

• Preparing reports on fast-moving and best-selling stock items for buying sessions and maintaining operational standards across stores are key responsibilities.

• Monitoring inventory management systems, initiating actions on slow-moving products, and ensuring effective stock management and timely stock counts are critical tasks.

• Managing staffing levels, conducting store visits and team meetings to optimize operational efficiency, and ensuring compliance with employment and state laws, health, and safety standards, as well as maintaining proper loss prevention measures, are integral to the role.

• Upholding the company's image through adherence to dress codes and maintaining retail standards in all showrooms is paramount.

• Providing regular product feedback to senior management and brand/category management departments, supervising visual merchandising to align with brand and theme objectives, and training, managing, developing, and motivating staff to increase sales and efficiency are also key responsibilities.