Summary
Landmark Group is seeking a Team Leader for a retail department in the United Arab Emirates. The role focuses on maximizing sales and productivity while maintaining merchandising, stock, and store standards. Responsibilities include monitoring sales and stock reports, ensuring product presentation and replenishment, handling customer queries and complaints, and coaching sales associates. The post also involves supporting team performance, training, and customer service standards.
The posting
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Team Leader
Team leader will be responsible for maximizing retail sales in their respective department. The job holder will also be responsible for maintaining the desired visual merchandising retail operations, customer service, replenishment, recovery standards in his/her department in the store in all aspects. The job holder is also responsible for sponsoring and coaching the team.
Department Management and Store Standards
- Maximize department sales and productivity metrics in line with shop targets
- Monitor key data reports on space management, sales and stock movement against last year, last week and budget on a daily and weekly basis and communicate to staff
- Ensure and monitor all stock is laid out and displayed according to standard layout norms (product placement, signage, neat and well folded, arranged in order from smallest to largest, hanged items must be steamed, brand wise, size wise etc)
- Ensure and monitor all products are price tagged and bar-coded before display
- Ensure and monitor all stock transactions are recorded on the system in time, accurately and correctly categorized
- Ensure and monitor awareness and vigilance at all times of security in the store of company asset, customer property and company good without any negligence
- Ensure the highest standards of housekeeping, health standards are maintained in store at all times
- Ensure departmental décor is correct and there is consistency in displays, branding and departmental layouts
- Optimize floor space based on merchandise availability, storylines and product sell –off
- Inspect merchandise for quality control and report any defects
- Ensure on-time clearance of all soiled and damaged merchandise
- Ensure on-time completion of random pricing checks on products
- Monitor and implement sales promotion and event in the stores
Store Merchandise/ Merchandising
- Understand and maintain a detailed knowledge of the product/department merchandise and coach /develop sales associate
- Ensure and monitor promotions, sell offs and ageing stocks
- Review and report non-selling items, slow & fast moving lines , non-movers , damages and ageing items
- Collate and provide information about the customers (likes, dislikes and opinions) and qualitative feedback on products to the buying and designing team.
- Ensure and monitor effective stock replenishment to the store and assure continuous stock availability in the store
- Ensure and monitor correct rotation of stock on shelves and assist in accurate stock counts as per store requirements
- Execute price revisions suggested by corporate
Customer Service
- Monitor and ensure adherence of customer service standards within the department
- Provide customer satisfaction by delivering exceptional customer service
- Carry out regular training to ensure clear understanding of the departments, products, make, features, selling skills and after sales service
- Communicate appropriately with customers including proactive greeting and acknowledgement
- Deal with customer queries and complaints effectively
- Follow procedures for dealing with specific customer orders
- Ensure confidentiality with respect to Landmark retail/store sales information
People Management / Mentoring
- Support induction of new recruits through buddy system
- Hold daily meeting to communicate performance high and lows
- Monitor and facilitate complaint resolution of direct reportees/team members
- Coach and sponsor sales associate within the department
- Oversee deployment and drive motivation levels of the team members
- Mentor team members to ensure greater customer service orientation