Merchandising Department Manager

Job description / Role

Reporting to the Make Up For Ever General Manager of the Middle East, the Merchandising Department Manager is responsible for the overall store presentation, as well as the design and creation of all windows, animation, retail and in store concepts, ensuring high quality visual merchandising standards throughout, based on Make Up For Ever Head Quarter Creative and equity guidelines.

Requirements

MISSIONS
- Set the VM department direction in line with the regional strategy and communicate to the team
- Cross relational role with other functions and HQ
- The Merchandising Department Manager is responsible for the management, training and development of the local VM team

Support and help the sales team through the opening of new Boutiques and Point of Sales by piloting the hard and soft merch activities with the support of the local visual merchandising team and the HQ merch team of Make Up For Ever:
- Plans, installation
- Follow up with suppliers, purchasing, and renovation works
- Share the Middle East region experience and concerns to the Central HQ teams through ideas, initiatives and best practices
- Guide, develop and manage the Product Presentation, Display Design and Display Decoration
- Manage the Merchandising budget
- Initiate, design and implement digitization action plans at the point of sales
- Approve all suppliers and develop strong working relationships and portfolio
- Manage and coach the team to create a full report on concept designs (pictures and comments) to be provided once the event is achieved

COMPETENCIES
- Project management: ownership, stakeholders, resources, team, budget, timing
- Creative, result and solution oriented, problem solving skills
- Strong interpersonal skills
- Excellent english (daily language), arabic is a must
- Software: Autocad, 3D, Indesign, Illustrator

PROFILE
- Architecture, Interior design or Merchandising degree
- Minimum 10 years’ experience in store design and visual merchandising
- Previous management experience
- Project management certification is preferable

Team management: 4

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.