Regional Visual Merchandiser - Luxury Fashion

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 Regional Visual Merchandiser will be the key custodian of brand identity in-store, responsible for translating the brands' global visual direction into impactful, localized executions across the Middle East. This role requires a strong visual storyteller with a deep understanding of luxury fashion, a hands-on creative approach, and exceptional communication skills. The successful candidate will build and maintain strong relationships with local suppliers, ensure cost-effective VM solutions, and lead regional implementation with a keen commercial eye.

Creative Execution & Brand Communication

• Interpret and localize global VM guidelines for each brand (3 Luxury brands).
• Own the creative translation of brand principles into window displays, in-store zoning, and seasonal animations.
• Ensure consistency and excellence in visual execution across all touchpoints, aligned with each brand’s DNA.
• Partner with the Buying, Retail, and Marketing teams to create storytelling moments that elevate product visibility and customer engagement.

Project Management & Budget Control

• Manage the end-to-end VM planning calendar, ensuring all campaigns, installations, and new store openings are delivered on time and within budget.
• Control and optimize VM budgets, ensuring cost-effective procurement without compromising on quality or impact.
• Produce ROI assessments on major VM projects and installations to inform future decision-making.

Supplier Relationship Management

• Build and maintain strong, reliable relationships with local suppliers and contractors to ensure high standards of production and installation.
• Lead negotiations with suppliers on cost, quality, and delivery timelines.
• Oversee procurement of VM materials, ensuring alignment with brand guidelines and budgetary constraints.

Store Support & Performance Monitoring

• Conduct regular store visits across the region to audit VM standards and coach store teams on best practices.
• Partner with the Retail Operations team to drive store performance through commercially effective VM.
• Collect and analyze data to evaluate the impact of VM initiatives on footfall and sales performance.

Team Collaboration & Training

• Provide training, coaching, and inspiration to store teams on visual merchandising standards and storytelling.
• Collaborate closely with HQ VM teams and ensure full alignment with global seasonal directives and updates.
• Act as the key point of contact between brand HQs and regional retail teams for all things VM.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Degree in Visual Merchandising, Design, Fine Arts, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of visual merchandising experience in luxury or premium fashion retail, with at least 2 years in a regional or managerial role.

Skills:

• Strong aesthetic sensibility and deep understanding of fashion and brand positioning.
• Exceptional communication skills; able to represent brand values with clarity and confidence to internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness and ability to align VM strategies with business objectives.
• Proven experience managing budgets and negotiating with suppliers.
• Proficient in Adobe Creative Suite, SketchUp, or similar VM/design tools.
• Strong project management and time management skills.
• Fluent in English; Arabic or Italian is a plus.

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.