Tailor - Max Mara

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

Job summary

A luxury retail company in Dubai is seeking a Tailor to perform alterations and create custom clothing as per client specifications. Responsibilities include fitting garments, making measurements, and ensuring quality alterations. Ideal candidates will have experience in luxury tailoring, excellent communication skills, and the ability to adapt to different tasks. The role offers a competitive benefits package, fostering an inclusive workplace culture.

Benefits

Healthcare benefits

Child education contribution

Remote and flexible working policies

Exclusive employee discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in Tailoring with Luxury brands and clothing.
• Strong communication skills are essential.
• Must demonstrate flexibility and agility.

Responsibilities

• Fit and study garments to determine required alterations.
• Measure and mark alteration lines.
• Take up or let down hems on garments.
• Let out or take in seams for better fit.
• Record alterations instructions on tags.
• Examine tags to determine needed alterations.
• Alter, repair, and create made-to-measure clothing.
• Inform sales executives on alteration feasibility.
• Coordinate details of alterations with sales staff.
• Notify customers when alterations are completed.
• Purchase materials for alterations as necessary.

Skills

Tailoring experience with luxury brands

Strong communication skills

Flexibility and agility

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 Tailor is responsible for various alteration tasks as per the customers’ needs and requests, and as reported by the sales staff, within the agreed upon deadline

• Fit and study garments on customers to determine required alterations
• Measure parts such as sleeves or pant legs, and mark or pin-fold alteration lines
• Take up or let down hems to shorten or lengthen garment parts such as sleeves
• Let out or take in seams in suits and other garments to improve fit
• Record required alterations and instructions on tags, and attach them to garments.
• Examine tags on garments to determine alterations that are needed.
• Fit, alter, repair, and make made-to-measure clothing, according to customers' and clothing manufacturers' specifications and fit, and applying principles of garment design, construction, and styling
• Inform sales executives if the alteration would be possible
• Coordinate with them for details of the alteration
• Inform the customers about when it will be fixed.
• Purchase the needed materials for various tasks

What you’ll need to succeed

• Experience in Tailoring with Luxury brands and clothing
• Strong communication skills
• Flexibility and agility

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.