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

As our Executive Hiring Lead, you will completely embed yourself in the business. You will work in close collaboration with the highest level of the organisation to identify and engage with the senior leaders of tomorrow on a regional and international level.

This is a key role to support the Group in becoming a more agile workforce, digitally minded organization which is people-centric and customer-focused. Success in this role will be demonstrated by the effective adoption and execution of the group Talent Acquisition strategy and the value-add to the business reality.

In summary, the Executive Hiring Lead is a Chalhoub Group ambassador who drives the candidate experience and ensures we have a rich candidate pipeline to support business strategy.

- Partner with senior business stakeholders owning the full recruiting cycle for leadership hiring.
- Create customized search strategies, build pipelines, and source executive candidates for open and future roles
- Lead and drive the end-to-end selection process (sourcing, screening, (phone) interviews, offers, negotiations) and make hiring decisions together with Senior Management.
- Build, Maintain and Engage a prospective network of executive-level candidate pools
- Attend market conferences to increase network coverage and build pipelines
- Build an exceptional candidate-centric recruitment process and continuously optimize the process
- Demonstrate ability to influence senior management and gain alignment on candidate calibration. Can source, network and close top, executive-level talent
- Provide guidance, training, expertise, and resources on strategic sourcing and recruiting tactics to the recruiting team
- Engage in various projects together with the team to raise the bar of Executive Talent Acquisition
- Highlights trends and themes discovered by working with clients, talking to candidates and staying on top of market trends
- Collaborate to identify key metrics to measure ROI, influence future decisions and resource allocation; leverage these metrics to monitor and ensure customer and candidate satisfaction
- Gain a strong knowledge of Chalhoub's markets and plans to understand current and future requirements