Buying Trainee – Tryano & SAKS

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 

By being part of our journey here at Chalhoub Group, you can make a real impact on customers and some of the finest brands in the world. In return, you’ll have everything you need to innovate your career.

We are always looking for ambitious students and graduates from a wide range of backgrounds for our professional internship programs. You will up-skill in the everyday and experience working as a valued member of the team – you will be empowered to innovate, develop and learn in a fun and supportive environment! As a Buying Trainee your responsibilities will be:

• Maintain all information relating to seasonal buy including product information and order confirmation along with open to buy management tracking as applicable.
• Support the Buyers by regularly visiting competitors to provide market intelligence to the Buying team.
• Support the Buying team by ensuring ‘who, what and when’ are collated from milestones meetings including Hindsight, Trade, and SWOT analysis.
• Ensure completion of competitive pricing analysis and store visit actions.
• Assist the Buying team with weekly reporting and VIC requests
• Manage RTV and the process in collaboration with Supply Chain
• Ensure all necessary records, files, and databases are maintained accurately and updated in a timely manner including collation of information (Buying calendar, exclusive product tracker…)
• Conduct product validation to support Buying and cross-functional teams for PR and marketing campaigns, look books, and Social media imagery

What you’ll need to succeed

• Graduate in Fashion Design, Marketing or Business

• Fully proficient on Excel
• Natural numerical and analytical capability
• Strong attention to detail and numbers
• Proactive and organized
• Capable of working under pressure
• Passionate about Fashion trends 
• Agile, flexible, and can work autonomously
• Positive attitude and 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.  To view all our perks and benefits, click here.

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.