Operation and Business development Manager
Paris Group
Total years of experience :31 years, 3 Months
Paris Group
Dubai, UAE
Operation and Business development Manager / 2005-Present
- Managing the purchasing team in overseas showrooms
- Managing the shipments of the goods from Europe and Asia.
- Explore for new brand developments.
- Negotiate Budgets and contracts
- Pricing & Costing
- Recruiting new staff
- Day to day Sales operations
Insight overseas all of the franchise and Management of 25 branches for the following mono- branded shops. I
was employed to open the new Versace, Canali and Gianfranco FERRE in Burjuman, Dubai. I was tasked to recruit
staff from numerous country throughout the world for management and opening the six shops on time and to budget (both of which I achieved) .In its first year the shops went on and increase by 50 % the target an win
numerous awards. As well as fulfilling all of my tasks operationally I managed, through careful P&L control to deliver the following:
- Sales in excess of AED 150 million AED
- Bottom line profit of 33% for year one
- Awards for best service in the company
- Business development - involvement in selection of new potential franchisee partners and sites as well as assisting in set-up of international franchises
- Liaising directly with CEO and owners of partner franchise companies
- More recently I have been tasked with the set up and opening of various other new venues such as Versace
2nd branch in Dubai Mall, Hugo Boss in Bahrain, Gianfranco Ferre in Mall of the Emirates, Canali in Mall of the
Emirates & Richmond in Dubai Mall. This new role not only involves multi venue management and openings but I also oversee all architectural and fit out developments of concept and design.
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Natwear s.a.r.l.
Jounieh, Lebanon
General Manager / 2000 - 2004
Managing the purchasing team in overseas showrooms
Converse Inc., Versace s.p.a., Forall Confezioni s.p.a. (Pal Zileri), Gianfranco Ferre s.p.a, Ferre Studio, D&G,
Versace Jeans Couture, Just Cavalli.
Insight overseas all of the franchise and Management of 10 branches for the following mono-branded shops
Versace, D&G, Gianfranco Ferre, Armani Jeans, Pal Zileri & Converse in Lebanon. I was an instrumental part of the team as I developed numerous concepts and opened many shops throughout Lebanon and Bahrain. My
duties varied immensely but included: Recruiting staff and training of management candidates
Assisting in all HR related issues with regards to local visa & labor laws
Development of new concepts including space planning, operational design features, Fashion development and costing, implementation of all operational systems, overseeing of all training and the many other aspects
that come with openings
Setting of sales budget
P&L control with suppliers, contractors and company representatives
Sales & Marketing
Liaising directly with suppliers, contractors and company representatives.
Influence & Yellow
Times Club
Public Relations Manager (Share holder) / 1997-2001
Managed the reservations
Held the relation with the customers
Upgrade the staff, recruiting
Originally working as a pre-opening consultant, I was tasked to P.R., marketing and operational aspects for very large events. Scheduling and managing up to 200 staff in over 50 different function suites. Large-scale
Banquet events for many VIP including Members of the Lebanese parliament All staff recruitment and training. During my time with this company I was also instrumental in developing a complete on line stock
ordering system for sale to the entire hospitality industry
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Badaro, Lebanon
Purchase & Sales Manager / 1982-2000
Manager of the purchasing team in Paris & Germany, Jean Paul Gaultier, Moschino, Paul & Shark, Georges
Rech, Bonaventure, Sonneti & Go West.
Negotiate Budget and contracts
Wholesale and distribution
Recruiting new staff
Managed the 4 branches of Influence & Yellow's multi-branded shops
1980-1982 EL College Achrafieh, Lebanon Computer Science
1965-1979 Sagesse School Achrafieh, Lebanon Bacc II: Experimental Sciences
