Strategic Insights Manager

6 months ago


Dubai, United Arab Emirates Chalhoub Group Full time

**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 endeavor 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, jewelry, 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.

**What you'll be doing**

The Strategic Insights Manager plays a pivotal role within the Strategy function, supporting top management by providing valuable data-driven insights. This role involves close collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders and industry partners to develop comprehensive thought leadership studies that turn research and data into relevant strategic insights for the luxury industry.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Develop market and category insights, and benchmark competitive landscapes through research, industry interviews, and market visits
- Conduct market sizing for international and local markets across various verticals, including beauty, fashion, and homeware
- Monitor emerging trends and relevant news in the luxury industry, including strategies of key luxury players, to contextualize our business environment
- Work closely with the Corporate Strategy team and Internal Consulting team to leverage market insights and data in evaluating and supporting key strategic projects, Group initiatives, and ad-hoc management requests
- Bridge the overall Strategy team with the Intelligence and Consumer Research teams to consolidate, analyze, and interpret all relevant information
- Understand the business needs of different Business Units and brands to support the development of relevant market presentations and extract key problematics and insights
- Lead flagship reports from scoping to execution and presentation
- Recommend new tools and methodologies for data analysis to enhance department

**What you’ll need to succeed**
- 5-6 years of experience in a research and data-driven role within luxury or Trend Foresight or Consumer and Market Insights company focused on luxury fashion.
- University degree in Business Administration, Finance, or Luxury Management
- Extensive knowledge of the luxury, beauty, and fashion retail industries with good business acumen and understanding of strategic business needs
- Ability to connect the dots using various data sources, including industry reports, research tools, and companies’ financial reports
- Strong analytical thinking with the ability to work with complex data from multiple sources (e.g., Excel, PowerBI, Tableau) and transform it into strategic insights
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, capable of presenting complex information clearly and effectively
- Strong problem-solving skills with a strategic mindset
- Ability to manage multiple stakeholders, including senior leadership teams
- Strong project management skills with high attention to accuracy and detail
- Proactive hands-on mentality, curiosity, and a collaborative team player

**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.



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