Date Posted: 2012-01-26
Ref. JB1749185
 

Senior Sales Associate
UNITED DEVELOPMENT COMPANY

Job Purpose:

The role of a Sr. Sales Associates is to assist all customers walking in to the boutiques, greeting and using the brand knowledge and expertise to build customer relations, brand loyalty and achieve sales targets.

Main Activities:

• Maximize sales and exceed Sales Targets with effective use of the stock package and sales information and the initiative to identify other business opportunities.

• Actively seeking out opportunity to promote sales, spending time with customers, helping them to choose products.

• Understanding the requirements and knowing which products/ merchandise will be most effective and best suit their customer.

• Recommending products which will suit their customer’s lifestyle and age.

• Keeping up to date with new ranges of fashion, products, fragrances and colour ranges (Sales Associates: For beauty as well as fashion).

• Visual merchandising, displaying the merchandise and restocking when necessary

• Monitoring stock levels, report stock outage and missed sales to the store manager.

• Working to achieve sales records and identifying sales targets and incentives.

• Keeping accurate customer records for exceptional service as well as after service.

• Build & Maintain strong relations with customers creating a loyal customer base.

• Seek market intelligence to learn more about competitors.

• Create add on sales through suggestive selling skills.

• Wrapping purchases and taking cash, cheques or credit cards as payment.

Skills

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

This position requires a competent and driven candidate with at least 2-3 year of experience in high end luxury fashion sales;

• A Sr. Sales Associate should:

have a smart appearance and be well groomed

have excellent interpersonal skills

be good at selling.

Experience in retail/ high brands.

Positive, professional, energetic and entrepreneurial attitude

Passion for product knowledge, customer service and selling

Basic math skills are necessary

Systems knowledge of MS Office a plus

Fluent in oral and written English; Arabic is an advantage

Qualifications:

• University degree / diploma in any stream.

Company Profile

United Development Company (UDC) was established in July 1999 as a public holders company in the State of Qatar, in the Middle East, and has been listed on the Doha Securities Market since June 2003.

From day one, the company’s mandate and mission has been to become a cornerstone of the development of Qatar, creating lasting value and maximizing returns for partners and holders.

Through a combination of substantial project activities and commercial enterprise, UDC has made substantial progress toward becoming the first-choice private sector joint venture partner for international investors in Qatar.

In The Pearl-Qatar, UDC is not only building a new island, it is creating a new cosmopolitan residential community of some 35,000 persons and an attractive and very accessible visitor destination. With an estimated total cost including dredging, reclamation, infrastructure and buildings, of QR 9 billion, The Pearl-Qatar is currently UDC’s largest and highest profile project. It is also the largest and the first international real estate development project in the State of Qatar.