Director - Planning - Beauty

Chalhoub Group

Dubai
Permanent
Full-time

1 month ago

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHTFor 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 doingAs Director - Planning you will be entrusted and empowered to transform our Supply Chain organization in our journey to becoming a highly customer centric and cost-efficient company. You will work closely with the COO and SVP of Beauty and their direct reports & business leaders, and cross functionally with other leaders across the organization to lead the Planning Strategy and Execution for the Beauty Business spread across the MENA region.You should have the skills and experience to navigate around the different complexities and nuances of our various business segments. You will be a key member of the Group Supply Chain organization who is expected to help in our Supply Chain transformation journey.In this regard, you will contribute in shaping our Supply Chain of the future by helping us set the right direction and priorities as well as bringing in and implementing best practices into the company. You should be very comfortable leveraging Supply Chain Management systems to routinely handle large volumes of data and you will develop systematic and robust technology-based solutions to routinely manage our KPIs. This role will suit you if you are someone who can influence without authority, someone who loves solving big Supply Chain problems, is intellectually curious, can get things done working cross functionally, can work with little direction, is experienced in leading within complex and nuanced business, all whilst not being overwhelmed by scale and speed.Partner with the COO and SVP of Beauty Division to develop a customer centric and cost-efficient businessLead the transformation of the Supply Chain operation in line with or ahead of the demands of our businessesBuild and effectively manage partnerships within our supply chain networkDevelop, measure and con nuously improve our key Supply Chain KPIsDevelop and implement an effective S&OP processContinuously develop the sales forecast and demand planning processEnsure optimal performance of our Supply Chain to support and grow our B2B and B2C e-commerce operationsWhat you'll need to succeedMaster's degree in supply chain management, Engineering, or other technical field from an accredited university
5+ years experience managing Supply Chain within Beauty Retail for a multi-store, multi-channel business, Department Stores and Beauty Distribution
7+ years experience leading, growing and developing large teams
7+ years experience negotiating with and managing external vendors
5+ years experience leading key Supply Chain transformation initiatives
3+ years working within Inventory Optimization for an FMCG or a Beauty company
Experience using sophisticated Supply Chain Management systems for Sales Forecasting and Demand planning
Excellent written and verbal communication skills complemented with the ability to problem solve independently
Ability to deep dive into the details and build on your ownWhat we can offer youWith 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 ApplyIt 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.

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