Regional Fragrance Expert

Position

Since 1947, the men and women of Parfums Christian Dior have embodied the founding "couturier-perfumer's" unique spirit of excellence, creativity, and expertise, both in France and throughout the world. Our House is an open and highly focused collective, a leader that thrives on the creativity of all its stakeholders. Our collective passion and our heritage, full of authenticity and dream, make us move forward and reinvent ourselves.

By revolutionizing the codes of French style and luxury through perfumes, and combining tradition with daring makeup and innovative skincare, we are reinventing every day the Dior style and its compelling, joyful and absolute beauty. Our stimulating missions give our employees the opportunity to develop new skills, overcome spectacular challenges and reveal their talent.

To go further, with Dior. 

Job responsibilities

As the Regional Fragrance Expert, you will be assisting the Senior Regional Training Manager in being the official image, voice, and hands of Dior Fragrance (& Beauty).

Sharing expertise, passion and being a role model for our Beauty Consultants and Specialists to inspire, convert and build sustainable relationships with our clients. And remaining at the highest level of expertise PCDO.

Your main assignment will be focused on:

Fragrance Training and Coaching

• Train, coach and develop employees on fragrance storytelling and transmit one’s passion for fragrance.
• Develop competencies of fragrance teams through coaching on Fragrance knowledge and application techniques.
• Organize and Animate in-class training sessions for fragrance.
• Follow up after in-class fragrance training to allow for comprehension, understanding and up to standard application.
• Organize and Animate field training sessions for fragrance.
• Contribute to BC motivation when in store.
• Pro-actively propose actions to improve skills.
• Ensure brand and product knowledge (storytelling, sales speech, link/cross selling)
• Demonstrate competence in using different social media tools as a learning platform.

Animations  

• Lead and Animate Regional events at POS ensuring Client Experience.
• Animate Masterclasses.
• Manage and lead an event team by clearly communicating on goals.
• Showcase exceptional public speaking ability for PR events and olfactory workshops.

Reports

• Provide feedback after training and coaching sessions.
• Debrief after field visit.
• Be able to learn and adapt to new technology for tracking and reporting training and coaching sessions.

Time Allocation

• 80% field
• 20% admin
• Travel for 80% of time

Profile

• English (fluent written and spoken) and Arabic/French is a plus.
• A minimum of 5 years in retail luxury beauty and training
• Retail knowledge and sales oriented.
• Meet brand image standards.
• Strong passion of transmission (technical and practical).
• Market knowledge and trend awareness.
• Genuine interest for cosmetic and luxury industry.
• Curiosity and open mindedness.
• Exceptional fragrance knowledge.
• Training and public speaking skills
• Client centric mindset.
• Creative/Innovative & open to change.
• Digital savvy and computer tools competent (PowerPoint, excel, Canva…)
• Video creations – comfortable in front of camera.
• Having VIC database is a plus.

Additional information

• A challenging role in a fast moving, ambitious environment, with daily learning opportunities and passionate team members.
• A competitive package, from compensation, benefits to perks
• Beyond this role, your development is a pillar of our ambition. Parfums Christian Dior, as part of LVMH, offers a Career perspective with a worldwide presence and continuous growth within 75 distinguished Houses.

The position is based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

So, How Far Will You Take Dior?