Associate – Innovation – Product Development

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 Product Development is responsible for driving new concepts in development of start-up luxury beauty brands, facilitating, and coordinating the product development process, and implementing the product strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

Development:

• Support product development specialist in developing and implementing PD strategies and new product development across multiple brands and multiple categories
• Identify gaps in the market, conduct market research and propose concepts accordingly
• Coordinate and manage between multiple projects and developments across multiple brands and categories and support in organization
• Quarterly competitor reporting on product launches and trends
• Support Specialist on all points of product develop process and brief drafting.
• Responsible for full development of GWPs across all brands
• Assist team in supplier sourcing, product recommendation, brief writing, product mix selection, product feedback and marketing text writing

Supplier Management:

• Coordinate the product development process with supplier in a timely manner (R&D, stability, compatibility, formula, shade, fragrance, packaging, artwork design)
• Keep track of ongoing projects, deadlines and deliverables
• Coordinate across all project and development and implement and sustainable structure
• Budget / invoice tracking and compliance

Team Support:

• Support marketing and operations team
• Quality control monitoring & product registration support to SC team
• Create product training content and train Trainers of Retailers on all new launched
• Build relationships with internal (marketing, supply chain, etc.) as well as external stakeholders (third party suppliers)

What you’ll need to succeed  

• Strong knowledge of the beauty industry
• Very structured individual
• Project management and coordination experience
• Able to deliver new product launch presentations and events
• 1 + years of experience in the beauty industry and preferably Product Development and/or project management and coordination ; ideally in high-end fragrances/make-up

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.