Plannogramming Associate

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

Our Associate Planogramming Manager is responsible for maximizing the profit potential by creating and implementing brand and SKU level planograms by store and providing analytics that will provide insights on how to boost productivity by SQM. She/he is reporting into the Manager Merchandising Operations

Responsibilities:

- Working on the store and category zoning
- Creating and maintaining the planograms
- Send the planogram and work with the retail team to ensure that the execution takes place while maintaining a tracker.
- Communicate with retail teams, receive feedback from Cat Man about listing and delisting of SKU's.
- Clear phase-in/phase-out process that would be supported by the planogrammer, assortment planner and led by the category managers
- Creating the commercial brief for a new store or store renovation together with the Cat Man team and aligning with internal stakeholders like the project team, finance, service, supply, etc.
- Fixture library creation and maintenance for space planning
- Brand and SKU performance monthly library updates
- Product library maintenance including gathering of product images and product dimensions for new and current assortments.
- Flag and correct inconsistencies in brand/product library
- Brand and SKU level planogram creation for new and current stores by identifying categories and planogram types
- Assortment reviews and analysis pertaining to space planning and space optimization, shelving allocations to provide feedback to internal and external stakeholders.
- Cyclical space reviews for the launching of new brands within the current assortment by providing expertise to improve merchandising practices.
- Recommend withdrawal of underperforming references and de-listing of brands.

Requirements

What you'll need to succeed

- A minimum of 4 years in a commercial role within the retail sector.
- Process orientated and organized individual with good attention to detail
- Proficient in Excel and PowerPoint applications
- A general understanding of CX in beauty and luxury preferably
- Experience in Space Planning Software is preferred
- Proficiency in managing stakeholders and fostering partnerships, with a track record of successful Planogramming experience.

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.

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.