Brand Analyst - Fashion

Job description / Role

We are Chalhoub Group, a leading family business in the world of beauty, fashion and gifts. We have blended our Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury to offer service excellence to all our partners and a unique experience to all our customers for over 60 years.

As we continue to grow, it's our vision to become a hybrid retailer, bringing luxury experiences to the fingertips of customers everywhere.

Who we are looking for: Brand Analyst

As a Brand Analyst you will maximize the profit potential by analysing and consolidating inventory risks and opportunities, and implementing inventory allocation strategies.

Your key responsibilities will include: trend analysis, inventory allocation and providing guidance with regards to best sellers, slow movers and sale optimization throughout the region.

Main responsibilities:
- Gather intelligence and perform analyses on brand and category performance
- Consolidate local reports into a regional report and conduct annual regional analysis on performance of brand and product categories as well as on-demand analyses on categories
- Make recommendation on adaptations of categories to the market
- Provide insights for the assortment plan of local stores and communicate regional decisions on assortment plan and discontinuities
- Consolidate analysis from local team and provide regional overview
- Consolidate local reports or extract reports from system on stock on hand in local stores, check alignment of stock with Brand's guidelines
- Prepare negotiation of returns with suppliers for discontinued items
- Perform analysis on gross margins for store budget and achievement of gross margin target by store, categories and sub-categories of products based on historical data, qualitative feedbacks from local team
- Ensure that top-down merchandise plan by country optimize sales and stay within end-of-season stock targets by taking into account realistic assumptions for key variables and all relevant information
- Consolidate purchases from countries at regional level and check that regional budget is consistent with commitments with suppliers
- Review reasons for discrepancies submitted to the regional team and solution proposed locally
- Compile qualitative comments from area and store managers on product performance
- Monitor performance of purchase at SKU level, in particular new orders and collections for the region
- Compile monthly reports at regional level on customer analytics
- Provide reports to Brand according to performance

Requirements

We can offer you:
- The opportunity to take your career to the next level with an exciting, unique Chalhoub experience
- The chance to live and work in a dynamic regional retail hub
- Staff discounts at all participating Chalhoub partner brands

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.