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\xc2\xae.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 doingOur 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 writingSupplier 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 complianceTeam 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)Requirements: - 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-upABOUT THE COMPANYThe 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.

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