pradeep kooragamaarachchilage, Senior Retail Sales Officer

pradeep kooragamaarachchilage

Senior Retail Sales Officer

Eros Group

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, Fares/Reservation/Ticketing/GDS/Marketing/Air Port Operation/Cargo
Experience
27 years, 3 Months

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Total years of experience :27 years, 3 Months

Senior Retail Sales Officer at Eros Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since February 2013

Provide customer service by greeting and assisting customers, and responding to customer inquiries and complaints.
Direct and supervise employees engaged in sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, or in performing services for customers.
Monitor sales activities to ensure that customers receive satisfactory service and quality goods.
Inventory stock and reorder when inventory drops to a specified level.
Instruct staff on how to handle difficult and complicated sales.
Assign employees to specific duties.
Enforce safety, health, and security rules.
Examine merchandise to ensure that it is correctly priced and displayed and that it functions as advertised.
Plan budgets and authorize payments and merchandise returns.

Customer Sales& service agent at Gulf Air
  • Sri Lanka
  • March 2012 to February 2013

Job Summary : Provide customer service and achieve service compliment results in serving worldwide air-ticketing both corporate and retail, outbound leisure packages, global hotel bookings, various visa applications and any other traveling needs required by customers.

Senior sales associate at Abu Dhabi Duty Free
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • January 2010 to January 2012

To ensure that each customer receives exceptional service by providing a friendly environment, which includes greeting and acknowledging every customer, maintaining solid product knowledge and all other aspects of customer service.
To maintain an awareness of all promotions and advertisements.
Assist in floor moves, merchandising, display maintenance, and housekeeping
To assist in processing and replenishing merchandise and monitoring floor stock.
To aid customers in locating merchandise.
To communicate customer requests to management.
To assist in completing price changes within the department.
To participate in year-end inventory and cycle counts.
To assist in ringing up sales at registers and/or bagging merchandise.
To any other tasks as assigned from time to time by any manager

Assistant Manager at Apparel llc
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • April 2007 to November 2009

To meet monthly & annual targets
To provide the highest standard of customer service, dealing with complains and motivating the team members to encourage customer loyalty
To lead personal always through best ways of communication and motivation.communicate goals and targets and any necessary information to the team
To handle stock replacement on the shop floor at all times and that all delivery procedures are carried out correctly
To keep store image in terms of cleaning maintenance and merchandising standards

sales supervisor at Islanders damas pvt ltd (duty free shop in Sri Lankan air port)
  • Sri Lanka
  • November 2006 to April 2007

1.To assist the Sales Manager in leading, directing and motivating the sales team in order to achieve the overall corporate sales objectives.
2. To assist the Sales Manager in revising and implementing the sales strategies plans.
3. To assist the Sales Manager in generating sales opportunities by identifying appropriate business targets.
4. To assist the Sales Manager in providing a professional and excellent level of customer service with existing and new customers.
5. To supervise the shift that you are scheduled.
6. To assist Sales Manager by completing all assigned duties
7. To clean up stations and facilities throughout shift and ensure cleanliness during my duty shift.
8.To handle customer issues, resolution and communicate escalated issues to the Sales Manager.
9. To supervise Sales Associates.
10To assist with sales Associates questions, concerns and product/service questions.
11.To create reports showing Sales %, install %, adherence, and attendance etc.
12.To make sure all employees adhere to company policies and procedures (example: dress code, eating food at station, cell phone usage, etc.)
13.To deliver positive feedback, Employee Rewards and Customer Recognitions to employee.
14.To communicate all employee relations issues, concerns, and incidents to Sales Manager.
15.To monitors calls, provide feedback to reps and assist reps on sales %, install %, and quality assurance goals.

customer care assistant at Cravings pvt ltd
  • Sri Lanka
  • June 2002 to November 2006

To maintaining customers focus on all times and answering to customer’s inquiries using the standard guidelines.
To taking ownership of complaint and queries and proactively following through to resolution.
To making ensure that all customers’ queries are well-investigated and resolved, and escalating queries if appropriate to supervisor.
To assisting management and Team Manger with any assigned special projects and providing backup to the team manager when required.
To maintaining working cognition of each customer service process for various market segments and communicating issues to team manager.
To developing and mentoring new staff to satisfy customer service requirements.
To maintaining professional strong working relationship with external and internal customers, colleagues, and customer service management.
To supporting decisions made by customer service management and conveying positively to reinforce the team members.
To identifying and escalating consistent or recurring problems with the systems functionality.
To assisting in improving and monitoring procedures and processes to ensure the cost-effective and the most efficient service.
To assisting in preparing and developing the documentation of the organization’s standard policies and procedures towards customer service.

Distributor / Team leader at Direct marketing international pvt ltd (Subsidiary company of DS-MAX International U.S.A
  • Sri Lanka
  • November 1996 to May 2002

Create an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort

Provide the team with a vision of the project objectives

Motivate and inspire team members

Lead by setting a good example (role model) - behavior consistent with words

Coach and help develop team members; help resolve dysfunctional behavior

Facilitate problem solving and collaboration

Strive for team consensus and win-win agreements

Ensure discussions and decisions lead toward closure

Maintain healthy group dynamics

Intervene when necessary to aid the group in resolving issues

Assure that the team members have the necessary education and training to effectively participate on the team

Encourage creativity, risk-taking, and constant improvement

Recognize and celebrate team and team member accomplishments and exceptional performance

Coordinate with internal and external customers as necessary

Familiarize the team with the customer needs, specifications, design targets, the development process, design standards, techniques and tools to support task performance

Assure that the team addresses all relevant issues within the specifications and various standards

Provide necessary business information

Serve as meeting manager or chairman

Initiate sub-groups or sub-teams as appropriate to resolve issues and perform tasks in parallel

Ensure deliverable are prepared to satisfy the project requirements, cost and schedule

Help keep the team focused and on track

Education

Diploma, Fares/Reservation/Ticketing/GDS/Marketing/Air Port Operation/Cargo
  • at International Air Line Ticketing Academy
  • August 2012
Diploma,
  • at National youth council
  • May 2004

I followed an DTP & Graphic designing course

High school or equivalent,
  • at Bandaranayake college
  • May 1994

School graduate

Specialties & Skills

Promotions
Feedback
Merchandising
Mentoring
Ms-office application, Internet, E-mail
9)To work consistantly
1)Sales able to provide luxury customer experience to any type of customer
7)Staff training( By setting great examples
5)Paper works(Like cash,banking,sales reports,petty cash vauchers,stock log books)
2)Promotions(able to promote any new products by presentation)
4)Merchandising( Able to set displays)

Languages

Arabic
Beginner
English
Expert
Hindi
Intermediate
Tamil
Intermediate

Memberships

International Air Line Ticketing Academy
  • Student
  • May 2012