Retail Merchandiser - Zimmermann

Chalhoub Group; Dubai; On-site; AED 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Child education contribution

Remote working policy

Flexible working policy

Exclusive employee discounts

Job summary

Chalhoub Group is seeking a seasoned Retail Merchandising professional in Dubai to lead market know‑how, optimize assortments, and manage stock across luxury fashion and accessories. The role requires strong buying feedback, regional execution, and collaboration with local teams to enhance sell‑through and brand presence.

You will partner with stores and the HO team, driving regional insights, coordinating stock, and delivering performance improvements through data-driven actions.

Qualifications

• Over 5 years’ experience in Retail merchandising or collection merchandising in a fashion brand.
• RTW experience preferred.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build and maintain strong relationships with various stakeholders.
• High level of attention to detail and strong organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Local Market expertise: know client needs at store level and provide feedback on market trends.
• Buying: adapt buy based on AU guidelines and propose assortment by store.
• Stock deliveries and allocations: monitor deliveries and ensure timely stock allocations.
• Sales optimization: analyze product performance and derive action plans with support teams.
• Network animation: train local teams, discuss sales performance, and drive local actions to improve sell-through.

Skills

Retail merchandising

Collection merchandising

RTW experience

Stakeholder management

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

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.

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

• Local Market expertise
  • Knowledge of clients’ specificities at store level, both international and locals
  • Regular feedback on local market needs and trends
  • Price and competitor analysis to share with HO team
• Buying
  • Based on AU buying team recommendations and guidelines, give feedback on local needs and adapt the buy
  • Propose depth and size grid that matches the needs of the markets and clients
  • Propose assortment store by store to answer the need of differentiation
  • Review and carry over sales plan / recut requests when relevant
• Stock deliveries and allocations
  • Close follow-up of the deliveries
  • Work with allocator to ensure timely allocations
  • Monitor of the stock levels of the region to request stock
• Sales optimization
  • Analyze the performance of all products at the region and store level
  • Derive action plan to push and optimize Sell through working closely with all support teams
  • Work with allocator on consolidation, or recalls
• Network animation
  • Training of local teams on products (at the beginning and throughout the season)
  • Discussion with the sales team on Sale through, sales performance
  • Based on sales analysis, propose local actions (incentives, training, VM pushes.) to optimize Sell through

What you’ll need to succeed

• Over 5 years’ experience in Retail merchandising or collection merchandising in a fashion brand.
• RTW experience preferred.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to build and maintain strong relationships with various stakeholders.
• Strong attention to detail.
• High level of organizational and time management skills.
• Good computer skills in Microsoft office including excel and PowerPoint.

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 employeediscounts.

Using GenAI in Your Application Process

To support a fair and consistent experience for all candidates, we ask that assessments and interviews are completed independently and without assistance from generative AI tools. This ensures we understand your strengths, your thinking, and how you approach real situations.

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 ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status.