Buyer - Lifestyle High-Street

Chalhoub Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 60,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent luxury retailer in Dubai seeks a Buyer to manage OTB deployment and product selection. The ideal candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in the fashion buying industry and be commercially confident. Responsibilities include analyzing sales data, negotiating with suppliers, and ensuring product availability across various channels. This role offers a competitive benefits package, including flexible working policies and employee discounts, fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Benefits

Health care

Child education contribution

Remote and flexible working policies

Exclusive employee discounts

Qualifications

• At least 3 years of experience in the fashion buying industry.
• Eligible to travel to the US, UK, and across GCC frequently.
• Experience owning/managing the OTB.

Responsibilities

• Manage OTB deployed and product selection.
• Analyze sales figures for business decisions.
• Negotiate with suppliers on stock swaps and markdown contributions.

Skills

Volume buying experience

Sensitivity to product categories

Proactiveness

Proficiency in Excel and Microsoft Office

Commercial confidence

Analytical strength

Brand-savviness

Job description

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distribution and marketing expertise for over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken to build a future where luxury dreams become reality — bridging cultures and crafting memorable experiences for our consumers. Be it by constantly reinventing itself, committing to innovation, or embracing new technologies, the Group is shaping the future of luxury retail. It delivers seamless omnichannel experiences across more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps. Driving this innovation journey is The Greenhouse — the Group’s innovation hub, incubator, and accelerator for startups and emerging businesses, regionally and globally.

Chalhoub Group fosters a people-at-heart culture rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a workplace catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. Today, it brings together over 16,000 talented professionals across eight countries in the Middle East, with a presence in LATAM. Their collective efforts have earned the Group the Great Place to Work® certification in several markets.

Sustainability is at the core of the Group’s strategy, guided by a clear commitment to people, partners, and the planet. Chalhoub Group is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact, a signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, and to have pledged to reach Net Zero by 2040.

What you’ll be doing

• Our Buyer is responsible for managing OTB deployed and product selection, ensuring point of sales are filled commercially and the brand image is well executed. These key points are reflected from pre-buying stage to the post buying stage and are monitored throughout the season.
• Demonstrate creative drive and talent in planning, selecting and buying product.
• Utilize knowledge and expertise to bring in innovative new merchandise, new concepts and potentially exclusive product to attract new customers and grow sales.
• Influence and challenge OTB creation, managing how to spend OTB.
• Analyze and interpret sales figures to make good business decisions.
• Take responsibility for gross margin, stock turn and sell thru.
• Actively participate in buys, product selection, and quantifying orders.
• Manage the sale markdown strategy and stock liquidation.
• Present the buys to management and store team.
• Work closely with marketing, VM and store teams, supply chain and e-commerce.
• Demonstrate awareness of trends, global market trends and competitors.
• Own supplier relationship and communication.
• Actively negotiate with suppliers on stock swaps, RTVs, markdown contribution.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Mandatory volume buying experience.
• Sensitivity to all product categories.
• Availability and eligible to travel to the US, UK, and across the GCC frequently.
• Ability to work proactively with minimal support.
• Should have had experience owning / managing the OTB.
• At least 3 years of experience within the fashion buying industry.
• Excel and Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Commercially confident, analytically strong, and brand-savvy.

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.