Project Manager JV Enablement

Chalhoub Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A luxury retail company in Dubai is seeking a Project Manager to oversee and drive joint venture enablement initiatives. This role is critical for translating strategies into structured programs, partnering closely with various teams to ensure smooth onboarding and integration of JVs. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in project management and stakeholder engagement, with strong skills in change management. The company offers a competitive benefits package and values diversity in its workforce.

Benefits

Health care

Child education contribution

Remote working policies

Employee discounts

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in project/program management, preferably in joint ventures or retail.
• Solid grounding in governance, operating models, and change management.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive execution of high-impact JV enablement initiatives.
• Develop comprehensive project plans with clear milestones.
• Support regular leadership reports and communication plans.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Business enablement

Change management

Interpersonal skills

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

This role is responsible for driving the execution, orchestration, and delivery of high-impact JV enablement initiatives across Chalhoub Group's Joint Venture portfolio.

You will support in translating strategy, operating model direction, and leadership intent into disciplined programs, structured delivery, and measurable outcomes.

The role partners closely with Group functions, JV leadership teams and Brand teams both locally and globally to ensure JVs are onboarded, integrated, and evolved with pace, clarity, and consistency - while respecting brand individuality.

Accountabilities

• Support end-to-end delivery of JV enablement projects (new JV onboarding, operating model rollout, transformations, and major change initiatives).
• Translate strategic priorities into executable project plans with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, and outcomes.
• Act as a change agent to support, create and review RACI models, proposing enhancements and recommendations that drive stronger pace and efficiencies for our JV Partners.
• Develop comprehensive project plans, milestones, critical paths, timelines and regular reporting, ensuring all cross-function elements are executed efficiently and on schedule.
• Support in providing regular leadership reports.
• Identify execution gaps, bottlenecks, project risks and inefficiencies; propose and implement pragmatic solutions.
• Own the creation, maintenance, and version control of project documentation, standard templates, and reporting cadence.
• Support post-implementation reviews and embed learnings across the JV portfolio.
• Manage all logistics for high-impact touchpoints such as quarterly GM forums, culture events, and best-practice exchanges.
• Co-create the annual communication plan with VP for our JV value proposition including JV management leadership communications, post event communications, event management and brand communications.
• Develop core brand communication toolkits and templates to enable consistent and aligned messaging across all JV touchpoints.
• Act as a central coordination point across Group functions (HR, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Tech, Ops, Real Estate).

Stakeholder management

• Establish good working relationships with local brand teams and selected HQ team members.
• Maintain regular touchpoints with Group functional leads and team members (build, maintain and nurture these).
• Act as an ambassador of Chalhoub's services.

What you'll need to succeed

• Extensive experience in project/program management, business enablement, or transformation roles.
• Strong exposure to complex, matrixed environments; JV, retail, or partnership models preferred.
• Proven ability to manage senior stakeholders and deliver through influence rather than authority.
• Solid grounding in governance, operating models, and change management.
• Highly structured, outcome-focused, and comfortable operating at fast pace.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels.
• Proven experience in project management.

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.