Category Management Trainee - Faces

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer.

Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work.

To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles.

What You'll Be Doing

Weekly Supply Chain and Ecommerce Coordination

• Conduct weekly 1:1 calls to oversee new brand and novelty trackers, ensuring timely launches.
• Follow up on ecommerce initiatives, including novelty pipelines and GWP uploads, ensuring all items are live on site as scheduled
  
  

Assortment Management and Analysis

• Perform regular assortment checks and stock-on-hand (SOH) analyses for underperforming brands.
• Collaborate on assortment planning for activations and manage stock for promotional events.
  
  

Floor Plan and Activation Oversight

• Update floor plans and planograms, engaging in category discussions and negotiations.
• Ensure timely follow-up on activations and discounts post-negotiation by category managers.
  
  

Accounting and Payment Liaison

• Address accounting queries related to payment closures, liaising between suppliers and finance on a bi-weekly basis.
• Ensure all compensation and payment issues are tracked and communicated effectively.
  
  

Brand Expansion and Competitive Analysis

• Work with teams on brand expansions, coordinating demand and assortment planning.
• Conduct weekly competition analysis to inform strategy and optimize performance.
  
  

What You'll Need To Succeed

• Advanced excel skills and use of MS office
• Previous retail experience and category experience are a plus
• Able to communicate in both English and Arabic
• Abiilty to commute to our offices in Jebel Ali.
  
  

What We Can Offer You

With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.

We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts.

We Invite All Applicants to Apply

It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.