Junior Category Manager

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 - Category Merchandiser is responsible for maximizing the profit potential and supporting management's business decision-making by consolidating and analyzing regional sell-out, gross margin, and stock data.

Responsibilities:

- Assist the Category Managers in developing the business plan of the category in line with the strategic objectives of Faces
- Formulate and continuously monitor progress and alignment on the category.
- Assist the production of the annual calendar for the brands promotions, launches, etc.
- Takes ownership of gross margins & drives an optimal sub-category mix to influence growth.
- Prepare regional monthly reports for major brands and groups about their performance at the store level and consolidated level, highlighting the following:
- Monitor the achievement of partnership rebates.
- To guide the financial analyst on reports on beauty retail competition at local and regional level on a regular basis.
- Coordinate the splitting of the budget by brand or by category at the store level and translate the budget into basket KPIs.
- Liaise with the marketing department on key figures for digital work and animation.

Requirements: