General Manager - Fashion
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
The General Manager - Fashion is responsible for developing and executing the brands omni channel strategy, setting commercial targets, and managing budgets in alignment with the groups short- and long-term vision. They drive brand growth while optimizing current operations across retail, wholesale, marketplace, eCOM ensuring seamless integration between online and offline touchpoints. The role also requires strong product acumen and a fashion-forward mindset, ensuring deep understanding of brand DNA, assortment needs, and market fashion trends to deliver exceptional customer experiences and sustained commercial and financial success. Your responsibilities will be to:
Develop and execute the long-term vision for the brand’s omnichannel and hybrid network, seamlessly integrating offline and online touchpoints.
Strengthen brand positioning by optimizing the physical and digital network, driving strategic renovations and closures, and leading all digital investments across eCommerce, apps, and in-store solutions
Drive profitability by maximizing OPEX/CAPEX efficiency, ensuring accurate store-level IRR, and rigorously tracking financial performance.
Lead and elevate the end-to-end hybrid customer journey, leveraging digital innovation to build, engage, and sustain a loyal brand community.
Build strong partnerships with brand principals and key stakeholders to accelerate strategic growth.
Shape and oversee the brand marketing strategy, ensuring cohesive storytelling, impactful campaigns, and 360° activation across retail, digital, social, CRM, and media platforms to accelerate brand equity and customer acquisition.
Lead the overall distribution business, identifying, evaluating, and expanding wholesale and alternative distribution opportunities that strengthen market presence, unlock incremental growth.
Identify CX gaps and implement forward-looking strategies aligned with evolving customer expectations.
Has strong product and assortment understanding, grounded in brand DNA, fashion trend awareness, ensuring the brand delivers the right collections, anticipates customer preferences, and drives both commercial performance and brand desirability
What you'll need to succeed
10+ years of experience, including 5+ in senior leadership roles
Strong digital, CRM and CX design experience
Hybrid retail & eCommerce expertise
Financial rigor and commercial discipline
Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing capability
Fashion-forward with strong product & assortment acumen
Experience managing demanding brand/principal relationships
Ability to influence without authority
Ability to energize, motivate, and lead teams
Inspirational, self-aware leader with a track record of developing high-performing teams.
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.
- Department
- RETAIL & DISTRIBUTION
- Locations
- Dubai
Dubai
DIVERSITY
With our people at heart, we believe in building a diverse work environment that nurtures and celebrates people’s differences, offers equal opportunities to all and ensures that our team members have a sense of belonging.
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