Senior Associate, Marketing - Max Mara - 6 Months Contract

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

For a period of 6 months starting February 2025, the Senior Marketing Associate will join Max Mara to assist in executing marketing campaigns to increase brand awareness and customer engagement, coordinating with internal teams, agencies, and vendors. Key responsibilities include supporting event activations, media coordination, PR initiatives, and budget management. The role involves working with CRM and Digital teams for social media campaigns, organizing customer events, managing marketing budgets, and providing administrative support for campaign and event logistics.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Marketing Campaign Support:
   - Assist in the execution of marketing plans to increase brand awareness and support customer acquisition and retention with CRM executive.
   - Support the development of marketing campaigns by coordinating with internal teams, agencies, and vendors.
   - Coordinate with the Digital team for social media and online awareness campaigns.
2. Marketing Activations & Events:
   - Assist in planning and coordinating in-store and out-of-store activations, ensuring they follow global brand guidelines.
   - Work with event agencies and the CRM Executive to organize customer events (in and out of store).
   - Act as a point of contact for third-party partners, including event agencies and PR agencies, suppliers for gifting solutions for key pushes.
   - Help prepare event recaps presentations and reports, outlining key outcomes and learnings.
3. Media Coordination:
   - Work with the media agency to ensure timely submission of advertising assets (OOH, print, advertorials).
   - Assist the Digital and E-commerce teams with coordinating social awareness campaigns, in line with key pushes.
4. PR & Communications Support:
   - Assist the PR agency in executing PR strategies to elevate brand awareness.
   - Help organize PR-related activities, including local media events and KOL (Key Opinion Leader) initiatives.
   - Support the preparation of monthly PR reports and updates for the General Manager, with support of the PR agency.
5. Budget Management and Tracking:
   - Manage the Marketing Budget with support of GM.
   - Create POs and Payment Submission on Oracle Platform.
   - Supplier Management & Creation.
   - Create and Manage Marketing Budget Tracker.
6. Administrative Support:
   - Coordinate with vendors and assist with administrative tasks related to the Marketing division.
   - Help organize and distribute campaign assets, including sharing content with mall partners when required.
   - Maintain files and documents related to campaigns and events.
   - Maintain PR Gifting Tracker.

What you'll need to succeed

- Experience: 3-5 years in marketing or a similar role, preferably in the fashion industry (luxury experience is a plus).
- Skills:

- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel and PowerPoint).
- Good communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
- Ability to handle multiple tasks and meet deadlines.

- Languages: Fluent in English.
- Attributes:

- Detail-oriented, proactive, and flexible.
- Passionate about fashion.

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.