Website Chalhoub Group
We are Chalhoub Group, a leading family business in the world of beauty, fashion and gifts. We have blended our Middle East expertise and intimate knowledge of luxury to offer service excellence to all our partners and a unique experience to all our customers for over 60 years.
Consultant – Executive Assistant Project Manager
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
An Executive Assistant is responsible for high-level administrative support and project management, by conducting research, preparing presentations, handling information requests, and performing clerical functions such as preparing itineraries and managing calendars, for an exciting and fast-paced Communications team.
- Demonstrating ownership in tasks, from ideation to completion.
- Assist in presentations and other reports and documents as needed.
- Manage in coordination with travel department travel plans, itineraries and expenses.
- Manage the Manager’s diary and appointments.
- Assist in presentations and other reports and documents as needed.
- Create and maintain database and spreadsheet files.
- Follow-up on progress of directives and projects managed by the Manager.
- Conduct research and prepare statistical reports.
- Arrange and coordinate events, if and when required.
- Handle all digital archiving of documents, records, and reports.
What you’ll need to succeed
- Be confident in liaising with relevant individuals, departments, and external customers and suppliers.
- Experience in project management; utilising tools such as Asana, Mural, Canva, AI systems.
- Full proficiency on all MS Office systems.
- Demonstrating ownership in tasks, from ideation to completion.
- This role will be suitable for someone diligent, detail oriented, someone focused on delivery.
- For this role you should be proactive and excellent at building relationships with key stakeholders.
What we can offer you
This position is initially a 6 month contract role.
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.
To apply for this job please visit careers.chalhoubgroup.com.