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 Visual Merchandiser is responsible for organising and deploying high quality visual merchandising strategies across stores. Our Senior Visual Merchandiser is also responsible for coaching the store based VMs, as well as ensuring consistency of standards.

Key Responsibilities

Implement high quality visual merchandising strategy and presentations through seasonal event calendar and brand guidelines

Coach and build strong relations with in-store VM teams (if applicable) and frontline team, so that they can help maintain display

Measure the impact of merchandising action plans and issue weekly report to the Regional team/ VM Manager (if applicable) with photographs, comments and measurements of sales impact

Follow and implement brand seasonal VM guidelines

Help prepare and Invite in-store VM team to attend Brand training events and workshops

Work closely with Marketing to provide support throughout the management of internal brand events Guide the installation of window and in store animations, design events and campaigns in line with the

global marketing and event calendars

Conduct regular store and market visits to check adherence to Brand standards and report back to the Regional team/ VM Manager (if applicable)

Stay up to date with Brand activities and external competitor activities Define the implementation in store for all launches/animations

Work closely with the Graphic Design team to produce the visuals

Order POS tools from the Brand headquarters and/or produce locally

Review the suggested merchandising plan linked to launches and provide input

Communicate the merchandising guidelines to the stores and follow-up on installation Ensure merchandising levels in the store are met as per the Brand's guidelines

Follow the performance of the ranges and categories, and adjust the merchandising if necessary Propose any merchandising amendments enabling an optimization of the turnover by m²

Manage new projects merchandising in coordination with the Marketing team (order and implementation)

Implement new store concept whenever needed Work on the planograms for new store openings

Work on the floor plans and zoning of the new stores

Determine and order the store merchandising elements and small furniture/decoration Work in coordination with logistics to ensure the dispatch of the PLV furniture

Define the minimum merchandising for all new launches

Communicate with retail manager on out of stock situations

Communicate with retail manager on impact of new merchandising on sales

What You'll Need To Succeed

• Minimum 3 years of Experience in Visual Merchandising as a supervisor/Manager, handling multiple departments.
• Very good English Language
• Fashion Retail experience is a must

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.