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Walid Samir Abdelsalam

Retail director at TVG (Expo 2020)

Helwan, Cairo, Egypt

Work Experience

  • Retail DirectorFull Time

    Dona Dony

    May 2022 - Present -3 yrs, 1 month

    Egypt , Cairo

    • Job Details:Manages retail business in a local fashion brand with 17 stores all over Egypt.
  • Retail directorFull Time

    TVG (Expo 2020)

    Sep 2020 - Present -4 yrs, 9 months

    United Arab Emirates , Dubai

    • Job Details:• Directly responsible for management of 6 fashion brands (Cavalli class, Bekenberger, Damat, Tween, DS Damat, TWN). • Successfully opened new stores and increased the number of stores from 5 to 8 stores in 6 months. • Exceeded monthly sales forecast by 15%. • Assign monthly and yearly targets to all stores. • develop the current strategy and business objectives. • Ensure high employee engagement at every level through effective motivation, coaching, training, and development of personnel in the team.
  • Retail general managerFull Time

    Alboom marine

    Aug 2017 - Aug 2020 -3 yrs

    United Arab Emirates , Dubai

    • Job Details:Directly responsible for the management of 2 international brands ( Tommy Bahama, Oakley). Create a relaxed destination - Direct Retail Team operations, ensuring the team delivers exceptional services experience and all retail locations appropriately reflects the Tommy Bahama lifestyle through brand execution. Set the course - Co-manage team meetings with Retail as needed, ensuring retail programs are consistently communicated and executed between teams. Build the perfect oasis - Implement strategies and facilitate learning and training programs that creates an environment for Retail Team Members to successfully promote sales. Onboard your crew - Hire and mentor the best and brightest, assisting employees with career development strategies to understanding Tommy Bahama and Oakley values in all business decisions and commitment to maintain the culture through the evolution of the business
  • Alshaya

    • Retail Operations Manager - FashionFull Time

      Jan 2013 - Jul 2017 -4 yrs, 6 months

      United Arab Emirates , Dubai

      • Job Details:Responsible of driving sales and profitability in the Victoria’s secret beauty and accessories stores in UAE and Qatar. Supports all brand initiatives and strategies (Sales Education, Launches, Events, Brand Promotions, and Product Testing). Personally demonstrates and provides coaching to direct reports selling behaviors and observations in all zones. Driver of the talent life cycle for direct reports and assigned team; which includes selection/interviewing, onboarding, coaching/performance management, succession, reward and recognition, and culture/engagement of assigned team. Supports execution of all store projects and compliance. Supports operational excellence through visual merchandising, payroll management, inventory control, and delivering on our operational standards.
    • Retail area managerFull Time

      Apr 2008 - Dec 2012 -4 yrs, 8 months

      United Arab Emirates , Dubai

      • Job Details:• Increase the sales of the stores by increasing awareness of the product. • Lead a team of 75 staff (store managers, assistant store managers, and sales people). • Responsible for providing technical sales training to sales staff • Responsible for conducting assessment needs of new employees • Handle the tasks of developing employee skill sets like relationship building, territory management and presentation skills • Responsible for maintaining the quality and quantity of product • Recruit staff, oversee their induction, appraisals and trainings

    Education

    • Bachelor's Degree in Accounting

      Cairo University (CU)

      Jan 2001 

    • High School - Thanaweya Amma

      Yousef Elsebaie

      Jan 1997 

    Achievements

    • Increased sales by 432000 in six months by employing aggressive marketing and sales tactics. • Achieved company targets by 85% through exceptional convincing power. • Realized self-targets by 100% following merit in strategic sales planning and execution. • Increased company revenue by 21% by actively employing powerful suggestive selling techniques. • Grew customer base by 45% by providing existing customers with exceptional services, resulting in word of mouth marketing. • Met sales goals consistently between the years 2010 and 2019. • Reduced operational cost by 32% after analyzing the numbers and remove the unnecessary expenses. • Suggested employment of visual merchandising efforts, which increased customer interest in the company’s products. • Successfully closed the company’s biggest sale in 1 day, amounting to 156,000, by proactively providing excellent customer services.

    Skills

    • IT
    • Retail Management System (RMS)
    • sales skills
    • Management
    • Retail
    • Managing Budget
    • Managing people
    • Visual Merchandising
    • Microsoft Office

    Languages

    • Arabic

      Fluent
    • English

      Fluent
    • French

      Intermediate

    Training & Certifications

    • retail management

      Alshaya·2013
    • A+

      Yat education centre·2003
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