Assistant Manager - E-Commerce

Lifestyle is a leading retail destination, specialising in Beauty, Fashion, and Home products. Established in 1998, Lifestyle has consistently delivered a distinctive shopping experience, and an extensive selection of brands and products across colour cosmetics, perfumes, personal care, fashion accessories, home essentials, and home fragrance.

With its chain of more than 160 retail stores spread across the GCC, coupled with a rapidly growing E-commerce platform, Lifestyle has established itself as an omnichannel destination-of-choice for Beauty and Fashion serving more than 4 million customers every year.

Key Responsibilities

• Online Merchandising and Strategy: Drive e-commerce performance by leveraging beauty trends, seasonality, and visual presentation to execute product features and cross selling, maximising conversion and average basket value.
• Campaign Management: Collaborate with marketing, merchandising and external partners to plan campaign calendars, negotiate online exclusive and brand funded promotions, and align initiatives with traffic trends.
• Inventory Management: Maintain optimal category inventory levels through stock to sales analysis and coordinate closely with warehouse, content and external platforms to ensure timely product launches and accurate site presentation.
• Pricing, Margin and Profitability: Manager accurate pricing implementation across platforms, proactively monitoring for irregular trends or margin fluctuations to collaborate with category managers and safeguard market competitiveness
• Sales Forecasting: Analyse online trends to provide data driven forecasting, helping the category team optimise product assortments, inventory planning, and promotional strategies.
• Data Analytics and Performance Reporting: Monitor monthly/weekly KPIs, conduct competitive reviews, and distribute comprehensive Daily Sales Reports, utilising custom dashboards to translate complex data into actionable insights for decision making.
• Budgeting and Financial Reconciliation: Play a key role in cross functional budgeting exercises alongside Planning and Finance, while overseeing marketplace reconciliation processes to resolve discrepancies and maintain strict financial accountability.
• Process Improvement: Identify operational bottlenecks, develop SOPs, and implement automation to streamline E-Commerce workflows, reduce errors, and scale operational efficiency.
• Cataloguing
• Coordinate with brand partners and launch products within the launch period provided by the brands.

Key Requirements

• Graduate degree in any field
• Advanced level proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, PPT)
• Minimum 4 to 5 years of relevant experience
• Strong data analytics skills
• Power BI & Power Query preferable
• Candidates with experience in the beauty category will be preferred
• Functional understanding of: online and local retail markets, budgeting & costing, and consumer/market research methodologies
• Commercial acumen
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills
• Good communication
• Networking skills
• Negotiating skills
• Stakeholder Management
• Self-motivated go-getter mindset