Trainee - Category Management

IINSPIRE | 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.

Role summary

As a Category Management Trainee, you’ll help bring new beauty products and brands to customers in-store and online. Working with the Category Manager, brand partners and internal teams, you’ll support product launches, coordinate promotions, and keep product ranges and online listings up to date.

What you'll be doing

Novelty Management & Tracking

• Assist the category manager in evaluating novelties and forecasting.
• Oversee end-to-end novelty tracking, including samples collection, courier coordination (Faces creation), documentation (ICFS, PIMS, assets), templates updates (novelty tracker), delivery timelines, enrichment on http://Monday.com platform, e-merchandising follow up and ongoing stock status monitoring

Coordinate on Campaign & Promotional Offers

• Lead campaign offer communication with brand partners, ensuring alignment on mechanics, timelines (Ramadan, Festive, Seasonal sales, Corporate Retail campaigns).
• Assist category manager in discussing offers with the brands whilst maximizing on their investments.
• Lead on updating the campaigns and promotion trackers with brands offers and communicating with Ops team/animations the latest updates (including Faces creation).

E-commerce Content & Online Enrichment

• Manage online enrichment for novelties, new brand launches, GWPs, and PWPs, ensuring accurate content, visuals, and commercial readiness.
• Assist Category Manager in communicating the GWP/PWP/Sampling offers to the retail team and sharing execution details and timelines.

RTC Coordination & Tracking

• Assist category manager in initiating, tracking and following up on RTV requests in coordination with supply chain and brand teams

Assortment Updates & Follow Ups

• Assist category manager in monitoring assortment changes, following up on updates, ensuring alignment between assortment and planograms and managing communications across internal stakeholders and brand partners.

Social Media & Marketing Support Planning

• Coordinate social media and marketing support plans between brands and internal marketing teams to maximize campaign visibility and performance.
• Communicate with brands to secure product samples and newness to support activations, follow up on deliveries and maintain campaign trackers updated.

New Brand evaluation & Market Research

• Assist the category manager to conduct market studies and performance evaluations for proposed new brands (assortment relevance, social and digital presence) and provide commercial recommendations.

New Brand Setup & Commercial Planning

• Manage confirmed new brand setup, including ranging templates, assortment update, forecasting, and full online enrichment.

Support on Expansions, New Brand Launches

• Support the category manager with identifying expansion opportunities, building roll out plans, reviewing and updating floor plans and space productivity trackers

What you’ll need to succeed

• Previous experience in a beauty internship is a great plus.
• Extremely organised and structured.
• A real passion for beauty and makeup.
• High proficiency in Excel.
• A degree in engineering or business management 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.

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.

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.