Area Manager (fashion Apparels/garments)- Middle east

With a billion Dollar Apparel Co in middleeast 

send cv on info@busybig.com
call/sms on 8080704539; frm samir
( for job updates follow on twitter @sLz1964 ) Job Description  Area Manager ·  Prepare & participate in the preparation of sales budgets for stores. ·  Maximize sales & profitability of the area. ·  Maximize productivity targets (Sales per square feet, ATV, Conversion etc). ·  Control costs within budgetary guidelines. ·  Identify internal & external commercial opportunities. ·  Ensure effective stock & space management. ·  Conducts SWOT review to analyze the customer profile. ·  Suggest improvements based on benchmark practices. ·  To achieve stock control targets in line with company guidelines to prevent financial loss. ·  Ensure effective inventory & warehouse management for the concept in the territory (order management, stock consolidation, movement & transfer, optimum stock utilization, stocks return & shrinkage. ·  Review & analyze stock and sales reports monitoring over & under stocks, implementing corrective action taken. ·  Review & effectively deal with fast / slow lines, new ranges and end of ranges & implement necessary action. ·  Responsible for all season launch 100% in all the stores in terms of display guidelines through planogram, show windows, marketing activities. ·  Ensure pricing of merchandise as per norms and matrix format. ·  Provision of monthly feedback to concept on sales, stock positions & product feedback. ·  Delivering growth (Planning & demonstrating efforts to achieve sale targets for all stores). ·  Responsible for making month budget for the stores. ·  Ability to understand & forecast analyze sale figures. ·  Area budgets & LFL achievement. (No stores should be in negative LFL). ·  Responsible for achieving total Annual Business Plan for the year. ·  Maximizing sales & profitability (control expense). ·  Ensuring all action is taken as per the company policy & procedures. Business Development; ·  Research & looking for good properties and locations to open stores & seeking opportunity for concept expansion in the territory. ·  Managing roll-out for new projects and time bound implementation of projects. ·  Understand Territory dynamics (demographics, consumer behavior, market understanding etc). Operational Standards and Management; ·  Ensuring all stores are in compliance with the store operating and customer service standards. ·  Ensuring all stores are in compliance with the company policy on employment and state laws, health & safety standards. ·  Ensuring all the store portrays the company image in all aspects of personal presentation and adheres to the company dress code as laid out by the company. ·  Ensuring all stores sales, promotions are planned effectively, executed & promptly & maintained professionally. ·  Responsible & implement Standard Operating Procedure (SOP). ·  Also responsible for audit and need to deliver 100% Satisfactory. People Management, ·  Conduct staff welfare activities (housing & transport). ·  Ensuring that all the new recruits should go for induction program (OJT) to understand their job better in way. ·  Ensuring skill development of stores staffs through Learning & Development. ·  Handling staff grievance and disciplinary actions. ·  To encourage managers to seek and continuously develop knowledge of competitor activity and local market conditions, with the purpose of making appropriate and innovative recommendations to drive the business forward. ·  Monitor & appraise the performance of retail staff in coordination with are retail manager and development individual career plans. ·  Set KRA's for direct reports and conduct performance appraisal. ·  Driving team performance and motivating and developing staff to groom for next level. ·  Developing PVT Label Business. ·  Sustained working on planned markdowns to deliver better margins. ·  Developing new vendors to develop product line. ·  Understand market competition to improve product profitability. ·  Local tastes & preferences research & corrective measures. ·  Opportunity gaps in current offerings & corrective measures. ·  Improve stores profitability. ·  Increase in ticket size & conversion at Store's. ·  Stock Management timely supplies, core style replenishment and push back unsold stocks. ·  Responsible for seasons range presentation driving health orders. ·  Merchandising which comprises preparation and execution of buying plans on return from the category and regular follow ups regarding stocks. ·  Managing the category performance which involves analyzing sales, space productivity & earning per square feet, best sellers etc; ·  Merchandise Planning range presentation & order plans for the season. ·  Retail sales monitoring weekly sales corrective action to meet monthly targets.