About GMG

GMG is a global well-being company retailing, distributing and manufacturing a portfolio of leading international and home-grown brands across sport, everyday goods, health and beauty, properties, and logistics sectors. Its vision is to inspire people to win in ways that make the world better. GMG\'s investments span across five key verticals: GMG Sports, GMG Everyday Goods, GMG Health and Beauty, GMG Properties, and GMG Logistics. Under the ownership and management of the Baker family, it has become a leading global company, affiliated with the world\'s most successful and respected brands in the well-being sector. Working across the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, GMG has introduced more than 120 brands into its markets.

About the role

Responsibilities

• Responsible for architecting and defining the Front-end framework to solve complex designs and interactions that reflect

the user experience and creative proposition

• Mentoring and guiding all project activities on multiple small to medium sized projects or one large project
• Shift between a creative and a technical focus depending on the project need and/or the type of project
• Participate in developing supporting proposal materials for projects
• Participate in scoping and planning work
• Write technical documentation (admin guides), white papers, presentations, contributes to determining internal processes
• Be a thought leader in the Front-end technologies and space
• Assist in recruiting of new Front-end employees

Skills

• Good grasp of data structures and algorithms
• Experience with application architecture and development
• Experience with coding modular object-oriented JavaScript
• Knowledge and understanding about JavaScript design patterns (Factory Pattern, Strategy
• Pattern, Module Pattern, Reveal Pattern, Facade Pattern, Asynchronous Module Definition etc.)
• Understanding and hand-on experience with writing modular CSS using SMACSS and ObjectOriented CSS methodologies
• Understanding of front-end frameworks like Bootstrap, Semantic-UI and Foundation
• Hands-on experience with ReactJS framework.
• Hands-on experience with CSS preprocessors (SASS, LESS, STYLUS)
• Experience with jQuery framework.
• Experience with RESTful and GraphQL APIs
• Experience and understanding with writing JavaScript unit tests (Jasmine + Karma)
• Experience with Progressive Web Apps
• Experienced with front-end tooling able to write custom automation tasks for Grunt
• Knowledge about hybrid mobile app development (React Native / Flutter)
• Should maintain and extend front-end development Guidelines and boilerplate that is currently

being used as a starting point for projects executed by both internal and offshore front-end
development teams

• Should be able to incorporate and understand HTML5 semantic elements and understand the SEO

benefits of Microdata and Google Rich snippets for inpage SEO

• A minimum of 3 years of relevant experience
• Must have a strong customer service orientation and the ability to work with individuals in various

organizational relationships

• Ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing, with a varied audience

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