Strategic Insights – Secondment

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

The Strategic Insights team plays an important role within the Strategy function, supporting top management’s decision-making by providing valuable data-driven insights. The role requires a good understanding of the luxury industry and solid analytical skills. For a period of 12 months you will be closely collaborating with cross-functional stakeholders and industry partners to develop comprehensive thought leadership studies that turn research and data into relevant strategic insights for the luxury industry.

Responsibilities

• Develop market and category insights, and benchmark competitive landscapes through research, industry interviews, and market visits
• Conduct market sizing for international and local markets across various verticals, including beauty, fashion, and homeware
• Monitor emerging trends and relevant news in the luxury industry, including strategies of key luxury players, to contextualize our business environment
• Work closely with the Corporate Strategy team and Internal Consulting team to leverage market insights and data in evaluating and supporting key strategic projects, Group initiatives, and ad-hoc management requests
• Bridge the overall Strategy team with the Intelligence and Consumer Research teams to consolidate, analyze, and interpret all relevant information
• Recommend new tools and methodologies for data analysis to enhance efficiency

What you’ll need to succeed  

• 3 years of experience in a data-driven or research role within luxury or Trend Foresight or Consumer and Market Insights company focused on the relevance sector
• University degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Luxury Management
• Good knowledge of and interest in the luxury, beauty, and fashion retail industries
• Ability to connect the dots using various data sources, including industry reports, research tools, and companies’ financial reports
• Analytical thinking with the ability to work with complex data from multiple sources (e.g., Excel, PowerBI, Tableau)
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting complex information clearly and effectively
• Proactive hands-on mentality, curiosity, and a collaborative team player

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.