Valentina David, Retail Store Manager

Valentina David

Retail Store Manager

Dual Investments

Location
United Arab Emirates - Sharjah
Education
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry
Experience
17 years, 2 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 2 Months

Retail Store Manager at Dual Investments
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2017 to June 2017

• Completing store operational requirements by scheduling and assigning employees; following up on work results.
• Recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
• Maintenance of the store staff job results by coaching, counseling, and disciplining employees; planning, monitoring, and appraising job results.
• Identification of current and future customer requirements by establishing rapport with potential and actual customers and other persons in a position to understand products requirements.
• Ensuring the availability of merchandise and services by approving contracts; maintaining inventories.
• Maintenance of the stability and reputation of the store by complying with legal requirements.
• Continuation of the operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
• Contribution to team effort by accomplishing related results as needed.

Retail Department Manager at Azadea Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2009 to January 2017

• Reporting by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information.
• Maintenance of inventory by checking merchandise to determine inventory levels; anticipating customer demand.
• Visual Merchandising coordination and supervision.
• Training the store staff by reviewing and revising orientation to products and sales training materials; delivering training sessions; reviewing staff job results and learning needs with retail store manager; developing and implementing new product training.
• Helping customers by providing information; answering questions; obtaining merchandise requested; completing payment transactions; preparing merchandise for delivery.
• Competition evaluation by visiting competing stores; gathering information such as style, quality, and prices of competitive merchandise.
• Purchasing inventory by researching emerging products; anticipating buyer interest; negotiating volumes; placing and expediting orders.
• Sales and customer relations reports by analyzing and categorizing sales information; identifying and investigating customer complaints and service suggestions.
• Maintaining quality service by establishing and enforcing organization standards.
• Contributing to team effort by accomplishing related results and achieving sales targets.

Retail Sales Associate at Azadea Group
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • September 2006 to September 2009

• Ensuring high levels of customer satisfaction through excellent sales service
• Assessment of customers needs and providing assistance and information on product features
• Welcoming customers to the store and answer their queries
• Following and achieving department’s sales goals on a monthly, quarterly and yearly basis
• Maintaining in-stock and presentable condition assigned areas
• Remaining knowledgeable on products offered and discuss available options
• Processing POS purchases
• Cross selling and upselling products
• Handling of exchange and returns of merchandise
• Team up with co-workers to ensure proper customer service
• Build productive trust relationships with customers
• Comply with inventory control procedures

Sales Representative at SC Global Net SA
  • Romania
  • August 2003 to August 2005

• Responsible for new sales in the assigned territory, against a fixed quota via prospecting, qualifying and deal closing
• Management of client relationship through all phases of the sales cycle.
• Providing consultative solutions sales process to prospects.
• Development and maintenance of prospect and customer list in the CRM system.
• Gathering competitive & market intelligence information.
• Supervising subordinate personnel including: hiring, determining workload and delegating assignments, training, monitoring and evaluating performance, and initiating corrective or disciplinary actions.
• Establishing sales goals for the team, with specific personal goals, encouraging multiple selling and reviewing incentive updates.
• Plan, organize, and direct overall workplace functions; coordinate time, vacation schedules and staff coverage; establish workplace procedures; authorize billings/expenditures; maintain records.
• Providing and demonstrating selling and marketing techniques.
• Coordination and liaising between agency or work unit and other agencies, work units, organizations, suppliers, etc.
• Inventory processing.

Laboratory Chemist at CELCO SA
  • Romania
  • May 1999 to August 2003

• Completing hands-on application work on technical service projects for existing products and new products entering the commercialization phase.
• Conducting, under guidance technical comparison, of the products vs. competitive products in industry specific application tests and provides the respective results/analyses/path forward.
• Complete technical application tests of products for troubleshooting to derive product recommendations and/or formulation recommendations by using multiple product lines of the portfolio and for support of growth opportunities and recommendation of next steps.
• Performing of technical testing and assessment of individual products via application testing and other analysis, providing others with respective results/analyses and recommendation of next steps.
• Ensuring and working in compliance with EH&S and ISO standards.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Chemistry
  • at Ovidius University
  • July 2004

Bachelor of Chemistry and Oil Processing

High school or equivalent, Chemistry
  • at Technical High-School Vasile Parvan
  • June 1998

Chemistry Specialization – Lab Assistant

Specialties & Skills

Brand Awareness
Brand Management
Customer Focus
Retail Management
Fashion Retail
MS Word
MS Excell
MS Powerpoint
Retail Management
Retail Sales Training
Stock and Inventory Management

Languages

Romanian
Expert
English
Intermediate
Italian
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Management development program (Training)
Training Institute:
Azadea Group
Date Attended:
March 2015
Duration:
80 hours

Hobbies

  • Travels
  • Accesories Design and Handmade production of accesories
  • Fashion