Regional Retail Director – Middle East (Luxury Fashion)

Regional Retail Director – Middle East You will be responsible for the overall performance of all regional locations with a large headcount You will coach your teams to focus on servicing the customer while achieving sales, organisational, and profitability goals. You must be a proven leader who develops trust at all levels within the organization. You must be adept at identifying exceptional talent and hire great retail and store managers. You must effectively communicate, execute business objectives, and create high-performing teams that consistently exceed results! Prior luxury retail management experience is required. This is a Senior Executive position with the brand and reports directly to the regional stakeholders and Vice President at European HQ.

What you will do:

• Effectively manage P&L and take full P&L responsibility.
• Provide leadership related to all aspects of the business across the Middle East
• Continually search for diverse top talent to build a high-performing team.
• Develop and empower retail managers and Store leaders to find solutions to meet corporate objectives through specific feedback provided during coaching opportunities.
• Ensure alignment and execution of corporate and regional strategies with departments in the Corporate Office including Operations, HR, Merchandising, Real Estate, Payroll, and Visual Merchandising.
• Analyse sales, operational reports, and trends to strategically determine business actions and needs in response.
• Travel extensively within the Region and occasionally elsewhere, including, but not limited to, the European Corporate Headquarters.

Qualifications:

• Previous experience (10-15 + years) in retail management, preferably for RTW luxury brand in Middle East or anywhere else globally.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent organisational and problem-solving abilities.
• Experience with a directly operated brand
• Previous accountability to senior stakeholders up to C-Level