Marketing Trainee - High End Luxury

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

The marketing trainee will support the marketing team in project management and coordination to ensure successful planning and execution of events, in-store activations, campaign and product launches, PR initiatives, clienteling pushes and 360 communication.

PROJECTS (70%)

• Support in events and in-store activations planning and execution (liaise with suppliers, coordinate with store teams, manage gifting etc.)
• Create and update decks (on project basis)
• Scout and liaise with suppliers for events and activations (contact them, get quotations, negotiate, coordinate operations etc.)
• Copywriting in English and Arabic: clienteling scripts, Arabic translations, internal communication copy
• Share content with Malls and Regional teams
• Create lookbooks/e-catalogues for key launches
• Update monthly reports, trackers and business calendar
• Conduct market research and benchmarks on key moments and activations (Ramadan, Christmas, Pop Ups, Giftings, Events etc.)
• Coordinate and liaise with store teams on a regular basis regarding projects, content, loans, gifting, catalogues etc.
• Coordinate and liaise with PR agencies on store loans, samples, requests etc.
• Coordinate and liaise with CRM teams on newsletter and clienteling pushes
• Coordinate and liaise with Chalhoub communications team and post news on a regular basis
• Coordinate and liaise with Muse and Elite teams (share content, press releases, copy)
  
  

ADMIN (30%)

• Coordinate and liaise with Supply Chain teams regarding transfers and marketing write offs
• Create/update suppliers in the system
• Support with sample management
• Manage VIC gifting
• Apply for mall permits for in-store activations
• Manage Dropbox/shared folder documents and assets
• Support in budget classification and PO issuance
  
  

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Confident and Organised
• Motivated and Eager to Learn
• Experience within Creative Marketing and Event Planning
• 360 Marketing experience in Retail, Influencers and PR
• Arabic speaker is preferred
  
  

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.