Brand Senior Associate

**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**

Our Senior Associate - Brand is responsible for working closely with brand owners to deliver on their marketing strategy and topline targets. Our Brand Expert will also work closely with our existing clients within the region of scope and will participate in all negotiations with B2B and/or B2C clients.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Manage a portfolio of brand(s) with full commitment on topline
- Build relationships with Brand Owners
- Support marketing strategy implementation with Brand Owners
- Participate in negotiations with retailers and/or brands to find agreement on business model
- Prepare the yearly budget (internal) and by season according to the previous season
- Conduct market visits in the region in order to keep all parties informed of key trade and competitor developments
- Participate in the development of country specific strategies and plans dependent on the competitive environment
- Propose new business development opportunities for the brand
- Coordinate with Finance teams and receive P&Ls in order to monitor the financial performance of the brands
- Solve all problems related to the commercial, logistic and marketing side of the assigned brands (goods to be returned, quality problems, payments )
- Follow up the sales versus targets, versus budget with the brands
- Sell and up-sell to clients all over the region in scope
- Solve the commercial problems (goods to be returned, quality problems, payments)

**What you’ll need to succeed**

Minimum 3 years of Experience as Brand Manager or Brand Executive

Retail/FMCG industry is preferable

**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.