Personal Trainer – Landmark Group

Landmark Group is hiring a Personal Trainer, based in the UAE. Landmark Group began as a single store in Bahrain in 1973 and has grown into a Dubai-headquartered retail and hospitality group with more than 25 brands across fashion, home and leisure. This role sits inside the group’s fitness and leisure operations, working directly with members to design and deliver personal training programmes that actually get results and keep members coming back.

Expect a mix of one-on-one and small-group training delivery, fitness assessments, programme design tailored to individual member goals, and a genuine sales element — personal training is typically sold as a paid add-on, so building a client base and retaining it matters as much as the training itself.

Landmark Group will want someone with a recognised personal training certification, hands-on coaching experience, and the interpersonal skills to build the kind of trust that keeps a client committed to a programme over months, not just a single session.

Personal training inside a leisure operation the size of Landmark Group is a genuinely commercial role, even though it feels, day to day, like coaching — every renewed training package is a member who's trusting this trainer specifically with their time, money and physical results, and every lapsed client is a quiet signal that something in the relationship or the results wasn't working. Good trainers build exactly the kind of loyal client base that drives the ancillary revenue leisure and fitness businesses depend on, well beyond basic membership fees. Beyond the commercial side, there's real responsibility here too — a trainer who designs programmes carelessly, or pushes a client beyond what's appropriate for their fitness level, creates real injury risk, so the best trainers balance genuine ambition for client results with disciplined, safe programming. For a Personal Trainer role specifically, what actually separates a strong hire from an average one is consistency on the fundamentals, day after day, not any single standout moment.

Personal training experience with an established group like Landmark Group gives a trainer structured exposure to a large, diverse member base, which builds breadth of coaching experience faster than working independently often would. It's also a role with a genuinely direct earnings upside: personal training compensation in the UAE typically combines a base salary with commission or session-based incentives, so strong performers who build and retain a solid client roster see that reflected directly in take-home pay, on top of the tax-free base. The standard UAE package of medical insurance and annual leave applies as usual, and many fitness operators also offer ongoing certification support for trainers who want to specialise further. Longer term, strong client-facing trainers often progress into head trainer, fitness manager or specialist coaching roles, and the sales and relationship skills built through client retention carry forward well into any future role that depends on keeping people genuinely engaged over time. For a Personal Trainer role specifically, what actually separates a strong hire from an average one is consistency on the fundamentals, day after day, not any single standout moment. That is exactly the kind of track record Landmark Group looks for when deciding who earns more responsibility next, in the UAE or in any other location across the group.

• Recognised personal training certification (e.g. REPs, ACE, NASM or equivalent)
• Demonstrated experience delivering one-on-one or small-group training
• Strong fitness assessment and programme design skills
• Comfortable with the sales and client-retention side of personal training
• Current first-aid/CPR certification
• Professional, motivating client manner across a range of fitness levels