7 Retail Assessment jobs in Kuwait

The Landmark Group began its journey in 1973 with one store in Bahrain and has grown into one of the largest retail and hospitality conglomerates in the Middle East, Africa and India. Currently the Group operates over 2,200 outlets, encompassing over 30 million square feet across 21 countries.

**Job Description**:
The primary focus of the concept manager is to achieve their concept sales and customer satisfaction targets. Implement concept initiatives and programs by working closely with the territory head and the territory team aligned to the territory business plans.

Key Focus Areas & Responsibilities:

- Responsible for Territory/Regional sales targets, gross and nett profit.
- Plan and implement regional initiatives to drive sales, by use of shukran data, monitoring and increasing ATV, UPT and conversions and executing focused trade marketing activities in stores.
- Plan and implement multi-channel concept retail strategy in the region/territory.
- Increase ecomm channel business contribution in the region/territory.
- Monitor and drive productivity through optimizing return's per square feet & sales per employee benchmarks. Monitor productivity targets and use retail benchmark to maximize return.
- Regularly gathers market and competitor information about the products, prices, locations, offers and promotion. Share the information with concept and regional teams to assist in improving concept offering.
- Ensure concept standards, guidelines are implemented in stores and meet audit and concept requirements.
- Organize the design, modification, refurbishment or closure of stores in accordance with the Concept development plans and standards.

Category & Inventory Management
- Responsible for category management in the territory/region.
- Ensure the right product mix per store in the region/territory. Use store business intelligence report.
- Understanding of pricing, promotions and manage markdowns / discounting for the territory / region and take necessary actions to deliver targets.
- Know the trends in the market and provide regular update to concept buying team.
- Ensure newness in the store - target 50% fresh inventory in every store.
- Replenishment of product - make initial allocation, min max, reduce store return by 50%.
- Manages and builds on the assortment (product mix) in the store.
- Regularly connects with the concept planning teams to manage allocations as per business requirements.
- Manages and ensures 100% stock availability across all stores.

Customer Focus
- Ensure store manager and staff in store are trained to provide excellent customer experience. Monitor and make sure that the staff are delivering promised customer experience.
- Plans and manages to deliver excellent customer service from entrance to checkout.
- Builds a culture where Store managers emotionally serve and personally engage with high spending customers in every store as per the concept or territory guidelines.
- Manages and increases the Shukran enrollment & conversions. Target top 30% top Shukran customers.
- Ensure stores layout and merchandize meet concept standards and provide the right customer experience.
- Monitor NPS & MSN scores and have plans to improvise and meet concept benchmarks.

People Focus
- Embed the value behaviors and build a strong culture of trust and engagement in the region/territory.
- Responsible to coach and support Area Managers/Store managers to perform and grow in the organization.
- Engage and motivate the team in stores across the region/territory, conduct town halls & listen to feedback.
- Drive and implement the group, concept, regional/territory engagement activities in stores.
- Participate in store engagement events.
- Ensure a fair and transparent performance and talent review process is implemented.
- Proactively engage and retain high potential talent. Implement recognition and reward programs.
- Reduce attrition and build succession to grow talent from within. Responsible for developing successors.
- Plan and implement the localization agenda as per local regulations.
- Responsible for manning, productivity targets. Look for continuous improvements.

Operation Focus
- Plan and implement the VM and marketing guidelines as per concept requirements.
- Regularly look for opportunities to improve, innovate and optimize store operations.
- Meet safety and security requirements as per local legislation and company standards.
- Comply with local regulations and meet business standards.
- Ensure smooth store, business operations in the region. Work closely with regional teams.

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Job Summary
- Maintain awareness of market and competitor activities and recommend strategies for minimizing their impact.
- Coordinate with concerned teams for any sales activities, promotional campaigns, awareness programs, etc.
- Coordinate communication between Head Office and Store team.
- Make recommendations for the objectives of the brands and the divisions SOP’s.
- Analyze strengths and weaknesses of each store and provide corrective action plans.
- Ensure that graphics and visual merchandise standards shared by franchises are utilized across all stores reflecting the brand image.
- Drive team performance by managing work performance evaluation, training and development of staff.
- Oversee the placement of orders to ensuring all trading, costing requirements are met.
- Through weekly trading reviews and proposals, ensure that in season activity maximizes profitability.
- Effectively communicate across the business in order to meet department objectives.
- Work with Retail team to ensure brand standards and guidelines are maintained.
- Agree seasonal buying strategy with the Business Manager and Retail Director and implement the same.

**Skills**:

- Very good communication and presentation skills.
- Manage multiple stakeholders.
- Technical understanding of retail financial models.
- Knowledge of GCC retail market.
- Strong relationship management and leadership skills.
- Commercial acumen.
- Strategical thinking.
- Able to multitask.

This job has been sourced from an external job board.

Hiring: Food Retail Operations Manager in Sharq

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Hiring: Food Retail Operations Manager in Sharq
A Food Retail Operations Manager is required in Sharq to oversee sales growth, customer satisfaction, branch performance, budgeting, staff training, and compliance with company policies. The role also involves marketing collaboration, market trend analysis, and branch supervision.

Requirements:

Minimum 5 years of experience in food retail
Knowledge of Kuwait’s product suppliers
Strong management and leadership skills
Ability to identify emerging markets
Experience in establishing new branches
Product presentation skills
Valid transferable residency and driving license
Apply by sending your CV to: (emailprotected) .

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**Why Deliveroo?**

When you first think about Deliveroo, you probably think of getting great food to your house in less than half an hour. Awesome right? But behind the scenes is the real story. This story is one of high growth, huge challenges and an enormous opportunity ahead of us.

We want to be the definitive food company - the app you go to any time you have a hunger pang. We are transforming the way people think about food. We're a technology driven company at the forefront of the most rapidly expanding industry in the world, so come and join us for the ride.

**Roles and Responsibilities**:
The Business Strategy team solves some of the most exciting and important issues facing the business. In this role, you will support medium-to-long term projects and challenge the way we do things, driving innovation forward. The responsibilities will include:

- Discovering, analysing, and interpreting trends or patterns in complex datasets to perform analyses
- Constantly optimising our business activity by submitting hypotheses based on, in particular, quantitative and qualitative analysis
- Working within and across departments to bring new strategies to life
- Producing reports for management review
- Embedding data into decision making across the business as well as up-skilling team members

**_ Qualifications_**

**Required Skills**:

- 2-4 years work experience, ideally with **2 years+** professional experience in a strategy consulting role
- Can demonstrate strong analytical achievements and confidence with numbers, tact along with humility and patience
- Good knowledge of Excel/GSheets
- A pragmatic, commercial mindset, comfortable with ambiguity
- Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills - cross-functional comms, training, outside scope/ad hoc
- Experience in working in a dynamic high-growth company
- Strong motivation with the ability to work quickly and accurately in tight deadlines
- Fluent English (written and spoken)

**Preferred Skills**
- Previous use of Looker
- A good understanding of SQL
- P&L and financial modelling experience
- Relevant sector expertise in a fast-moving consumer business or professional services
- Functional experience, e.g., commercial, pricing or consumer insight

**Benefits and Diversity**
- 30 days of Annual Holiday Leave
- Work visa
- Comprehensive medical insurance (for employee & dependents)
- Annual home flight ticket (for employee only)
- Free Deliveroo Plus - Free delivery and access to special offers
- Maternity & Paternity benefits
- End of year parties & regular social events
- An extremely fun team to work alongside!

At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.

We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing start-up's around

VAC9654 - Senior Specialist, Strategy & Business Analysis

Field:

Contract Type:

Full Time - Permanent

Location:

Closing Date:

31-Jul-2025

The Company

Ooredoo is an organisation on the move. Thanks to our dedicated employees, we continue to move closer towards our vision to be among the top 20 telecommunications companies in the world.

We are a dynamic global telecommunications player operating in 17 countries across the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and Asia. We cover a population of more than half a billion people and serve more than 68 million customers.

In Kuwait, we employ approximately 1,000 talented people, all of whom are driving Ooredoo to be the number one choice for world-class communications services in Kuwait. In the face of intensifying competition, increasingly sophisticated technology and rising customer expectations, nothing is more important to our success than our team – and it's a team that you can be part of.

Ooredoo's future is bright, and you can be part of our ongoing success.

The Purpose

The position entails undertaking project management, analysis, coordination, and is responsible for defining and updating strategies that drive growth for the company along with associated initiatives.

This position will work closely with the Strategy & Business Development unit team and with other divisions in portfolio strategy, financial planning, future trends, new growth opportunities, and competitor analysis.

This position provides a complete range of information and insights support to business managers, including decision support indicators based on targets, actual, assessment etc. to facilitate decision making.

This position will also monitor activities to ensure that they are in line with the agreed Strategy, KPIs, and Business Plan targets and perform various business analysis activities to ensure that Ooredoo Kuwait meets its strategic objectives.

Key Accountabilties & Responsiblities

Support the development and monitoring of the company’s growth strategy and operational excellence based on analysis of industry trends, competitive threats, expansion opportunities and internal performance.

Support the definition of specific, measurable strategic goals for the company.

Support the design of business scaling & revenue growth strategy for Telecom.

Support Strategy & Business Development Director and team members to help set the overall strategic direction of the company, and to design key initiatives including growth strategy and operational excellence

Perform Trends analysis and new growth opportunity / competitor analysis including peers’ performance

Support with business integration & design strategy for revenue increase.

Provide information / trend analysis on emerging global markets.

Analyse commercial trends and performance and interpret them

Assist in the efficient designing / implementation of strategic initiatives.Assist in building, verifying and monitoring Ooredoo Kuwait Business Plan

Assist in building and updating the internal and external environment assessment as part of the strategic cycle

Support the Build-up of the strategic framework and market model and forecastsWork closely with the different teams across the organisation in the support of developing the business strategy and its sets of strategic initiatives.

Support the Business Planning and Strategy Development and cascading business strategy into the operational plans.

Provide reports and presentations for reviews.Deliver analytically rigorous and data-driven insights that assist the company executives in making strategic decisions and drive business prioritisation.

Deliver data-based insights to support actionable strategic direction, corporate prioritisation, and strategy communication (build link with Business intelligence team and finance to get the relevant feed of data and analysis)

Create and manage reporting systems.

Deliver periodic reports on key performance metrics for business parameters.

Set up measures and monitoring mechanisms to regulate and control the Costs initiatives

Conduct regular business and sensitivity analysis and report findings to Department head and leadership

Monitoring, tracking and reporting on the plan KPIs metrics on quarterly basis (and upon significant changes). Updating the plan periodically and report on results.

Analyse market share in value and volume

Analyse competitor activities and their performances

Prepare presentations with inputs and relevant insights to assist the management team in decision making

Proactively take responsibility for self-improvement by staying well-informed of developments, knowledge and innovations in relevant field of expertise.

Other duties as directed by supervisor or other superiors.

Qualifications

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration / Management , Economics, Statistics, IT , or any relevant business field

Requirements

3-4 years’ experience with a minimum 3 years’ experience in a related role is mandatory.

Track record in business analysis.

Good knowledge of telecom industry.

Possess financial acumen with the ability to link and correlated between business strategy/initiatives, operational plans and financial performance.

Strong analytical skills and financial modelling capabilities.

Good interpersonal & communication, presentation and facilitation skills.

Ability to communicate with various levels of management.

Ambitious and result driven. Ability to cope with deadlines

Ability to drill-down and perform root-cause analysis

Ability to operate in a diverse multicultural, multinational work environment, exhibiting appropriate sensitivities

Highly developed communication and reporting skills (verbal and written) in both Arabic (preferable) & English.

Good background about Mobile technology and industry

Excellent research capabilities and statistical analysis knowledge

Problem Solving & Analytical thinking skills

Concern for Standards/Efficiency

Being Collaborative and Cooperative

Tenacity, Resilience and Self-Management

Work under pressureExcellent computer skills and proven knowledge of data analysis using popular MS products specially Excel and Power Point

Deep insight in Forecasting: Accurate assessment of growth and profit potential

Note: you will be required to attach the following: #J-18808-Ljbffr

VAC9654 - Senior Specialist, Strategy & Business Analysis

Field: Contract Type: Full Time - Permanent Location: Closing Date: 31-Jul-2025 The Company

Ooredoo is an organisation on the move. Thanks to our dedicated employees, we continue to move closer towards our vision to be among the top 20 telecommunications companies in the world. We are a dynamic global telecommunications player operating in 17 countries across the Middle East, North Africa (MENA) and Asia. We cover a population of more than half a billion people and serve more than 68 million customers. In Kuwait, we employ approximately 1,000 talented people, all of whom are driving Ooredoo to be the number one choice for world-class communications services in Kuwait. In the face of intensifying competition, increasingly sophisticated technology and rising customer expectations, nothing is more important to our success than our team – and it's a team that you can be part of. Ooredoo's future is bright, and you can be part of our ongoing success. The Purpose

The position entails undertaking project management, analysis, coordination, and is responsible for defining and updating strategies that drive growth for the company along with associated initiatives. This position will work closely with the Strategy & Business Development unit team and with other divisions in portfolio strategy, financial planning, future trends, new growth opportunities, and competitor analysis. This position provides a complete range of information and insights support to business managers, including decision support indicators based on targets, actual, assessment etc. to facilitate decision making. This position will also monitor activities to ensure that they are in line with the agreed Strategy, KPIs, and Business Plan targets and perform various business analysis activities to ensure that Ooredoo Kuwait meets its strategic objectives. Key Accountabilties & Responsiblities

Support the development and monitoring of the company’s growth strategy and operational excellence based on analysis of industry trends, competitive threats, expansion opportunities and internal performance. Support the definition of specific, measurable strategic goals for the company. Support the design of business scaling & revenue growth strategy for Telecom. Support Strategy & Business Development Director and team members to help set the overall strategic direction of the company, and to design key initiatives including growth strategy and operational excellence Perform Trends analysis and new growth opportunity / competitor analysis including peers’ performance Support with business integration & design strategy for revenue increase. Provide information / trend analysis on emerging global markets. Analyse commercial trends and performance and interpret them Assist in the efficient designing / implementation of strategic initiatives.Assist in building, verifying and monitoring Ooredoo Kuwait Business Plan Assist in building and updating the internal and external environment assessment as part of the strategic cycle Support the Build-up of the strategic framework and market model and forecastsWork closely with the different teams across the organisation in the support of developing the business strategy and its sets of strategic initiatives. Support the Business Planning and Strategy Development and cascading business strategy into the operational plans. Provide reports and presentations for reviews.Deliver analytically rigorous and data-driven insights that assist the company executives in making strategic decisions and drive business prioritisation. Deliver data-based insights to support actionable strategic direction, corporate prioritisation, and strategy communication (build link with Business intelligence team and finance to get the relevant feed of data and analysis) Create and manage reporting systems. Deliver periodic reports on key performance metrics for business parameters. Set up measures and monitoring mechanisms to regulate and control the Costs initiatives Conduct regular business and sensitivity analysis and report findings to Department head and leadership Monitoring, tracking and reporting on the plan KPIs metrics on quarterly basis (and upon significant changes). Updating the plan periodically and report on results. Analyse market share in value and volume Analyse competitor activities and their performances Prepare presentations with inputs and relevant insights to assist the management team in decision making Proactively take responsibility for self-improvement by staying well-informed of developments, knowledge and innovations in relevant field of expertise. Other duties as directed by supervisor or other superiors. Qualifications

Bachelor Degree in Business Administration / Management , Economics, Statistics, IT , or any relevant business field Requirements

3-4 years’ experience with a minimum 3 years’ experience in a related role is mandatory. Track record in business analysis. Good knowledge of telecom industry. Possess financial acumen with the ability to link and correlated between business strategy/initiatives, operational plans and financial performance. Strong analytical skills and financial modelling capabilities. Good interpersonal & communication, presentation and facilitation skills. Ability to communicate with various levels of management. Ambitious and result driven. Ability to cope with deadlines Ability to drill-down and perform root-cause analysis Ability to operate in a diverse multicultural, multinational work environment, exhibiting appropriate sensitivities Highly developed communication and reporting skills (verbal and written) in both Arabic (preferable) & English. Good background about Mobile technology and industry Excellent research capabilities and statistical analysis knowledge Problem Solving & Analytical thinking skills Concern for Standards/Efficiency Being Collaborative and Cooperative Tenacity, Resilience and Self-Management Work under pressureExcellent computer skills and proven knowledge of data analysis using popular MS products specially Excel and Power Point Deep insight in Forecasting: Accurate assessment of growth and profit potential Note: you will be required to attach the following: #J-18808-Ljbffr