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Ref: GP285-5663
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.
Job Summary
The Greenhouse is Chalhoub Group's space for bold innovation and entrepreneurship housing our Startup Studio, where we build startups from scratch with entrepreneurs of the region, our Incubator Program, where we run programs of incubations to support the growth of innovators in their early stages, and our Accelerator Program where we act as a market access for established startups to inject their innovations at the core of our business. Using lean startups methodologies, we aim to rapidly co-create and launch traction-heavy ventures that result in long-term revenue or high returns through new business models, categories, and markets.
Our Startup Studio Partner will play a pivotal role as part of The Greenhouse core team reporting to the Head of the Startup Studio. You will work with an agile and dynamic team, and you will be driven to achieve success for our Startups.
What you'll be doing
- Problem-solution design: Leading the ideation process and designing workshops for problem and solution identification.
- Market Research and Analysis: Proficiency in analyzing industry trends, market demand, competition, and customer insights to shape venture ideas.
- Business Modeling: Skills to design and test business models, including revenue streams, pricing strategies, and scalability potential.
- Product Management: development of A/B testing, customer personas, and go-to-market strategies.
- Rapid Prototyping: Ability to create MVPs (Minimum Viable Products) and prototypes using tools like Figma, Sketch, or Adobe XD to quickly test ideas.
- Project Management: Skills to manage timelines, resources, budgets, and milestones in the venture development process.
- Stakeholder Management: Skills to build relationships with stakeholders, including founders, investors, partners, and customers.
- Leadership and Team Collaboration: Ability to lead different teams, foster collaboration, and build a culture of innovation.
Requirements:
What you'll need to succeed
- Previous experience as an entrepreneur or venture builder.
- Broad knowledge and hands-on implementation of available tools to create low tech solutions.
- UX skills (wire framing, story boarding, research and user testing).
- Proven results in finding and acquiring early adopters to reach product market fit
- Good mix of technical, growth and UX know-how
- Be a strategic thinker, with execution mindset; a doer
Key Traits
- You have an entrepreneurial mindset
- You are a fast learner and are not afraid to make mistakes
- You are a both a creative and analytical thinker
- You are experienced in using different sets of tools and know when and how to use them for prototyping and testing purposes
- You are able to execute at speed while keeping the big picture in mind
- You are excited about learning new things and to share it with others
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.