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Merchandise Analyst - Tory Burch, Karl Lagerfeld, Kenzo

Employer
Chalhoub Group
Location
Dubai
Closing date
24 Mar 2023

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Function
Marketing
Level
Manager

Job Details

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 Merchandise Analyst is responsible for using a product and merchandise-driven approach to optimize sales and margins in an omnichannel environment. The role is also responsible for ensuring the availability and consistency of SKU ranges across all stores by monitoring inventory vs. sales and recommending actions based on brand product/merchandise strategy. To succeed in this role, you should be professional, highly analytical, strategic, and possess excellent communication skills. The successful candidate should also have an in-depth knowledge of advanced merchandising practices.

What you'll need to succeed

Key Responsibilities

Strategy & Analysis:

·Analyze sales performance data by relevant product metrics (SKU, market, category, sub-category, family, aging, etc.) to highlight risks / opportunities & recommend action plans

·Contribute to merchandise strategy definition in conjunction with Buyers, based on performance analysis

·Support OTB planning & Sales Forecast calculations by providing merchandise strategy input to Demand Planner

·Creation, execution, & follow-up of merchandise assortment strategies (phase in/out, launch, consolidation, exit, etc.)

·Drive CO ordering process with Demand Planner based on merchandising strategy

·Assess stock level imbalances between locations / regions / platforms and action rotations / transfers (in progress)

·Analyze merchandise actions for effectiveness & impact

·Maintain & update store merchandise profiles (penetrations by subcategory / family, category capacities, demographics, assortment width, etc.) at regular intervals

·Monitor & ensure channel compliance with merchandise strategy (e.g., e-com exclusives, limited editions, etc.)

·Perform ad-hoc merchandise analyses as required

·Prepare post-seasonal analysis of past performance at regional levels in order to analyse the product performance

System:

·Review, clean, and organize product data in system (coordinating with MDM team) to ensure accuracy & relevancy of data analysis

·Update & maintain recurrence status of carry-over styles based on merchandise strategy

Reporting:

·Generate, maintain, and update regular interval (quarterly, monthly, weekly, daily) category reports to relevant stakeholders, in partnership with Demand Planner

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.

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