Senior Buying Manager

Job description / Role

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

- Solid knowledge and experience of fashion, mass retail, merchandising and the global and KSA retail market is required.
- Communicating improvements to be made to product samples to suppliers
- Discussing trade and the impact this may have on next season
- Working with suppliers to develop samples and build a commercial range
- Researching market and customer trends, Identifying any new products for the department to trial
- Attending fit sessions and approving or rejecting fits
- Agreeing packaging and presentation of product
- Using line print to review sales, highlighting reactions to the team and offering suggestions
- Preparing and presenting weekly department sales information and samples for trade meetings
- Accurately confirming all order details with suppliers
- Identifying any problems with delivery through communication with suppliers
- Negotiating with suppliers to resolve delivery issues

Requirements

What you'll need to succeed

- Bachelor Degree Certificate
- Fluent in English and Arabic
- Experience of working within a fast paced fashion retailer
- A full understanding the Buying and Merchandising Lifecycle
- Some experienced in managing or mentoring others
- Proficient in presenting to Senior Stakeholders
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Can confidently work out cost prices, margins and recommend selling prices
- Preferably 8-10 years experience in Buyers Administration

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.

About the Company

The Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East since 1955. As an expert in retail, distribution and marketing services based in Dubai, the group has become a major player in the fashion, beauty and gift sectors regionally.

By blending its Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury, Chalhoub Group is building brands in the region, by offering service excellence to all its partners and a unique experience to its customers through its passionate teams.

With a growing workforce of more than 9,000 people, implemented in 14 countries, as well as the operating of over 470 retail outlets, the group's success is attributed to its most valued asset of highly skilled and dedicated teams. Professionalism and passion are what fuel the Chalhoub Group's competitive edge in today's market.

By being committed to implementing sustainable practices into their business, the Chalhoub Group has been awarded in 2013 the CSR Label from the Dubai Chamber of Commerce.