Senior Associate - Marketing

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

We are currently on the lookout for a passionate and extremely communicative Influencer Executive to help us establish and manage influencer relationships. This role will be focused on co-creating the influencer strategy with the marketing team.

You will be expected to:

• Build relationships with top media and influencers resulting in free coverage and a successful brand reputation allowing an increase in sales.
• Co-create the influencer strategy with the marketing team for all animations, activities, and brand equity building exercises.
• Support in building the squad strategy for Wow Beauty Forward and Beauty Nation and drive the activities throughout the year.
• Assemble a makeup/skincare squad of influencers/KOL/content creators across the GCC.
• Utilize key members of the influencer squad for building associations with brands, creating content, and driving social conversation.
• Work on creative gifting to send to top media and influencers to create a hype on social media resulting in increased awareness of the brands.
• Identify and engage key influencers to collaborate (paid/non-paid) with for launches, key activities, promotions, etc.
• Support in defining the affiliate program by reaching out to the right influencers and maintaining relationships while tracking their success rate and managing their calendar.
• Share feedback and support the marketing team in terms of content creation, social media strategies and coordinate for coverage for influencers' content/makeup artists and skincare fanatics.

What you'll need to succeed

• A bachelor's degree in marketing or any related field.
• 5 years' experience in marketing, out of which a minimum of 2 years should be with a beauty brand.
• You are an avid social media user who is well-versed in social content.
• You know how to build meaningful relationships and negotiate deals with influencer partners to grow customer acquisition, raise brand awareness, and ultimately drive sales.
• You are strategic and data-driven while balancing the need to be process-oriented, creative, and passionate.

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.

We invite all applicants to apply

It takes diversity of thought, culture, background, differing abilities and perspectives to truly inspire, exhilarate and delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.

We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.

Department: Marketing

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.