Overview of the role

The retail sales representative role is pivotal in establishing rapport and credibility with customers to assist them in purchasing products from the company's range. This involves maintaining high merchandising standards and ensuring stock availability to achieve sales targets. Success in this role is defined by exceeding customer expectations through understanding their needs, actively seeking sales opportunities, and promoting products effectively.

What you will do

Operational & Commercial

• Conduct a daily detailed inspection of the assigned area to review availability and positioning of price labels, product information tags, and other communication media.
• Review daily stock levels on all products in the assigned area and recommend orders to the shopkeeper.
• Coordinate with the procurement executive for information pertaining to stocks in the assigned area.
• Ensure customers are always in focus and strive to make them smile; meet and serve customers showing empathy and care.
• Have a daily dialogue with guests to get continuous feedback about their experiences and learn more about their needs and wants, then act based on their input.
• Be understanding and sensitive in meeting diverse customers' needs by initiating and developing effective relationships with customers, thereby establishing trust and confidence.
• Understand and determine customers' requirements to prepare a pro forma invoice.
• Maintain contact with and advise customers on recently received items of interest and follow up on quotations to convert them into sales.
• Empower and encourage the team to act immediately to meet the needs of customers and provide input on service improvements.
• Promote sales of products by spotting and seizing sales opportunities, offering alternative solutions, and suggesting add-on sales to achieve established sales targets.
• Suggest means of improving sales to the supervisor and identify slow-moving or non-selling items, proposing sales actions.
• Maintain a full display of products via merchandising methods as laid down by the company.
• Stay aware of developments in the local market by listening to customer information, monitoring advertising and promotions in the media, and making scheduled market visits.
• Keep up to date with changes in the company's product range such as new items or changes in existing items and inform the sales manager of any customer comments or gaps in the range.

Required skills to be successful

• Proactivity and initiative in sales.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Problem-solving abilities.
• Customer focus and service-oriented mindset.

What qualifies you for the role

• Secondary education.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role.
• Proactive and sales-driven mindset.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Good command of the English language.
• Good command of the Arabic language is preferred.

About Al-Futtaim Group

Established in the 1930s as a trading business, Al-Futtaim Group today is one of the most diversified and progressive, privately held regional businesses headquartered in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Structured into five operating divisions: automotive, financial services, real estate, retail, and healthcare; employing more than 35,000 employees across more than 20 countries in the Middle East, Asia, and Africa, Al-Futtaim Group partners with over 200 of the world's most admired and innovative brands.

Al-Futtaim Group’s entrepreneurship and relentless customer focus enables the organization to continue to grow and expand; responding to the changing needs of our customers within the societies in which we operate. By upholding our values of respect, excellence, collaboration, and integrity, Al-Futtaim Group continues to enrich the lives and aspirations of our customers each and every day.

About Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate

The real estate development and operations arm of Al-Futtaim, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate is responsible for a multi-billion-dollar portfolio across MENA. With high-quality residential, business, retail, tourism, educational, and healthcare developments, the master developer caters to the diverse needs of cities and communities in the region.

From origination, conception, development, sales, procurement, and construction of mega-projects and the leasing, operation, and management of these projects after completion, Al-Futtaim Group Real Estate (AFGRE) has been developing and managing owned landbanks, unlocking the economic potential of the region and contributing to future development for more than 40 years.

Our focus is to enable and invest in meaningful relationships to make our properties the best places to live and work, build additional products and services, and enable partnerships to create true value to our customers throughout their entire experience with us.

AFGRE is responsible for master planning of all projects in its portfolio, including two large scale mixed use destinations: Dubai Festival City and Cairo Festival City.

About Al-Futtaim Malls

Al-Futtaim Malls provides development and asset management expertise, specializing in building retail-led super regional malls in prime locations across MENA and beyond. With a proven track record of creating both sustainable revenue growth and value enhancement for tenants, Al-Futtaim Malls delivers exceptional experiences and exciting shopping environments for customers.

Part of the Al-Futtaim Group, Al-Futtaim Malls leadership team brings more than 30 years of experience and a deep understanding and knowledge of the retail sector, both from a shopper’s point of view but as curators of space or landlords to other brands. The company has a directly managed portfolio including over 9 million sqft of retail space across four malls in the MENA region and two under development. Malls under the Al-Futtaim Malls portfolio include Dubai Festival City Mall and Festival Plaza in the UAE, Cairo Festival City Mall in Egypt, Doha Festival City in Qatar, and Zenata Mall, Morocco.

Leveraging on the expertise of its parent company, Al-Futtaim Malls established PLEX Management Services offering a full array of services including asset management and development, leasing, and brand experience expertise to shopping mall landlords and retail organizations globally. Implementing global best practice and deploying Al-Futtaim Mall’s deep understanding of mall management and retail dynamics, PLEX promises to deliver continuous growth and long-term value for its partners.

About Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies

Al-Futtaim Engineering & Technologies offers customers complete engineering and systems integration solutions.

The engineering arm operates in the UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt providing a wide variety of products and services from air conditioning, scaffolding and access solutions, elevators and escalators, control and life safety, facilities management, building products, MEP, energy management, technology infrastructure, and digital transformation.

The technologies division provides complete business solutions to large, medium, and small customers that include contact centre solutions, business applications, business intelligence, data management, advanced analytics amongst others. The IT infrastructure portfolio comprises IP telephony, ELV systems, networking solutions, professional audio-visual solutions, and managed services.

These solutions are further complemented by services that include project management, installation, testing, commissioning, and after-sales maintenance contracts.