Managing Director

Confidential Jobs; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Jobs is seeking an experienced brand leader to take strategic ownership of a portfolio of fashion and lifestyle brands, shaping direction and identifying growth opportunities. You will define brand strategy and work across the organisation to translate it into action, driving meaningful commercial growth and brand equity.

You will collaborate closely with Product, Design, Buying and Marketing to ensure product and campaigns reflect the brand strategy, while maintaining alignment

Qualifications

• Experience building or scaling culturally relevant consumer brands.
• Proven track record in brand strategy and growth.
• Comfort working across fashion, lifestyle and beauty sectors.
• Ability to align multiple functions to brand priorities.

Responsibilities

• Define brand strategy and long-term ambition for each brand.
• Develop 12–24 month growth plans and priorities.
• Identify opportunities across categories, markets, channels, pricing and segments.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with Product, Marketing and Creatives.

Skills

Brand building

Cross-functional leadership

Commercial acumen

Stakeholder influence

Job description

This is an opportunity to have significant influence over the direction and growth of a portfolio of consumer brands, with established central capabilities and specialist teams already in place.

You will have the autonomy, visibility and responsibility to shape brand strategy, influence product and consumer direction and drive meaningful commercial growth.

If you are a brand builder who wants to operate at the intersection of brand, product, culture and commercial growth, we would love to hear from you.

The Role

You will take strategic ownership of a portfolio of high-potential fashion and lifestyle brands, setting the direction and identifying where the biggest opportunities for growth sit.

You will define the strategy for each brand and work across the wider organisation to turn that strategy into action.

Key Responsibilities

Brand Strategy

• Define the positioning, target consumer and long-term ambition for each brand.
• Build clear 12–24 month growth strategies and priorities.
• Identify opportunities across categories, markets, channels, pricing and customer segments.
• Ensure the brand proposition is clear and consistent across every consumer touchpoint.

Brand Growth

• Develop strategies to increase awareness, demand, customer acquisition and brand equity.
• Identify opportunities across creators, ambassadors, partnerships, collaborations, PR, community and cultural moments.
• Build meaningful creator and talent ecosystems around each brand.
• Identify new and unconventional opportunities to drive relevance and growth.

Product

• Work closely with Product, Design and Buying to ensure the product reflects the brand strategy.
• Influence category priorities, product architecture, pricing and range development.
• Use consumer, cultural and commercial insights to shape future product decisions.
• Challenge where the product proposition is not meeting the opportunity.

Commercial

• Maintain a clear understanding of revenue, margin, customer acquisition, retention, category and territory performance.
• Partner closely with Ecommerce and Trading to understand customer behaviour and commercial performance.
• Balance long-term brand building with short-term commercial priorities.
• Focus the organisation on the opportunities capable of creating significant growth.

Content & Creative

• Work with Content and Creative teams to establish a distinctive identity for each brand.
• Ensure campaigns, social, ecommerce, creators, packaging and partnerships communicate a consistent brand proposition.
• Benchmark the brands against leading global consumer businesses and continually raise the creative standard.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Align Product, Marketing, Content, Creators, Ecommerce, Trading and Operations around clear brand priorities.
• Establish clear ownership, accountability and KPIs.
• Identify and resolve gaps or conflicts between functions.
• Create a strong operating rhythm across the portfolio.
• Take overall accountability for the health, performance and growth trajectory of the brands.

What We're Looking For

We are looking for an experienced brand builder who has helped build, transform or scale a culturally relevant consumer business.

You may currently be a Managing Director, General Manager, Brand Director, Commercial Director, VP or senior brand leader within a high-growth consumer business.

Ideally, you will bring:

• Significant experience within fashion, sportswear, activewear, beauty, lifestyle or another consumer-led category.
• A proven track record of building or scaling brands.
• Strong understanding of consumers, digital channels and social culture.
• Excellent product, brand and commercial instincts.
• Experience working with creators, talent, partnerships and community.
• Strong commercial and analytical capability.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives without direct line management of every team involved.
• The ability to influence senior stakeholders and create alignment across an organisation.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and the ability to operate comfortably in a fast-moving environment.
• The judgement to identify what genuinely matters and where to focus.