Area Manager at Majid Al Futtaim

Founded in 1992, Majid Al Futtaim is the leading shopping mall, retail and leisure pioneer across the Middle East, Africa and Asia. A remarkable business success story, Majid Al Futtaim started from one man’s vision to transform the face of shopping, entertainment and leisure to ‘create great moments for everyone, every day’. It has since grown into one of the United Arab Emirates’ most respected and successful businesses spanning 15 international markets, employing more than 33,000 people, and achieving the highest credit rating (BBB) among privately-held corporates in the Middle East. Majid Al Futtaim owns and operates 20 shopping malls, 12 hotels and three mixed-use communities, with further developments underway in the region. The shopping malls portfolio includes Mall of the Emirates, City Centre malls and My City Centre neighbourhood centres, and also four community malls which are in joint venture with the Government of Sharjah. The Company holds exclusive rights to the Carrefour franchise in 38 markets across Middle East, Africa and Central Asia, and operates a portfolio of more than 160 outlets in 15 countries.

The Role:

• As the area manager you will be responsible for leading the commercial activities of a region of stores including super and hypermarkets, in this rapidly growing region.


• You will have decision-making responsibilities ranging from day to day trading issues to identifying areas of growth and business improvement by assessing financial and administrative processes in the stores.


• As an expert visual merchandiser you know how to make stores attractive to consumers and how to forge strong working relationships with suppliers and partners, while ensuring that stores align with the Majid Al Futtaim Retail concepts.


• As the operational leader of the region, you won’t only be focused on operational activity, you will also be the finance expert, the people expert and the marketing and communication expert ensuring that we support our people through growth and career development, achieve our financial objectives and continue to develop a strong brand


• To build strong working relationships and to ensure optimal delivery across your region the majority of your time will be spent at store visits meeting with operational and leadership teams to identify risks and opportunities.

What you will need to be successful:

• To be successful in this role you will already have had at least 5 years of experience managing a small region of grocery retail stores and are used to managing and leading a distributed team.


• You have a proven track record of growing the business and achieving commercial targets.


• You are fluent in English and ideally another local language.

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