12 Buying jobs in the United Arab Emirates

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At Chalhoub Group, we don’t just shape careers — we shape futures. For over seven decades, we have partnered with global luxury brands and built our own to create exceptional experiences across the Middle East. From fashion to beauty, art de vivre to jewellery, we continue to set new standards in luxury, driven by innovation, purpose, and people.

Our transformation into a hybrid luxury retailer has enabled us to reach customers wherever they are — through 950+ stores, digital platforms, and mobile apps. At the heart of this journey lies The Greenhouse , our innovation powerhouse that supports breakthrough ideas and nurtures future-ready ventures across the region and beyond.

With over 16,000 passionate professionals across 8 countries (and expanding into LATAM), Chalhoub Group is proud to be Great Place to Work certified across several markets. Our culture is grounded in diversity, equity, and inclusion , built to empower people to thrive, lead, and make a difference. As a UN Global Compact member and signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, we’re committed to achieving Net Zero by 2040 — because sustainability is not just a value; it’s a responsibility.

About the Program
The MADA National Graduate Programme (NGP) is your launchpad to an impactful career. Designed exclusively for UAE Nationals, this 18-month journey is built to empower, challenge, and shape you into a future leader.
In Phase 1, you will explore the business through three tailored 3-month rotations, giving you multi-dimensional exposure and practical insights. In Phase 2, you’ll dive deeper into a final 9-month strategic assignment, gaining leadership experience, solving real-world challenges, and driving meaningful impact.
You’ll be mentored, supported, and surrounded by people who believe in your potential — because we know the next generation of leaders is already among us.

Focus Area: Retail & Distribution Buying
This track will immerse you in the fast-paced and strategic world of luxury retail operations. Through rotations in Buying, Category Management, and Brand Partnerships, you’ll gain hands-on experience in curating assortments, analyzing product performance, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to bring the best of global brands to our regional customers. This pathway equips you with the commercial, analytical, and creative skills needed to thrive in a retail landscape that blends tradition with innovation.

What You’ll Need to Succeed
• Academic background in Fashion Design, Marketing, or Business Management
• Passion for product, fashion, and consumer behavior
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail and commercial awareness
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Drive to turn insights into action and impact

Where It Leads
Upon successful completion of the programme, you’ll be offered a permanent role at the next career level – the next phase of our Future Leader Journey.

What We Offer
At Chalhoub Group, your aspirations become reality. You’ll experience:
• Enriching, real-world assignments
• Leadership exposure and mentorship
• Development opportunities tailored to your journey
• Access to a competitive benefits package including healthcare, child education contributions, remote work flexibility, and exclusive employee discounts

A Pathway for Emirati Graduates
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.
While we welcome and value all applicants, this opportunity is exclusively open to UAE Nationals, as part of our commitment to nurturing national talent and building future Emirati leaders.

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT

At Chalhoub Group, we don’t just shape careers — we shape futures. For over seven decades, we have partnered with global luxury brands and built our own to create exceptional experiences across the Middle East. From fashion to beauty, art de vivre to jewellery, we continue to set new standards in luxury, driven by innovation, purpose, and people.

Our transformation into a hybrid luxury retailer has enabled us to reach customers wherever they are — through 950+ stores, digital platforms, and mobile apps. At the heart of this journey lies The Greenhouse, our innovation powerhouse that supports breakthrough ideas and nurtures future-ready ventures across the region and beyond.

With over 16,000 passionate professionals across 8 countries (and expanding into LATAM), Chalhoub Group is proud to be Great Place to Work certified across several markets. Our culture is grounded in diversity, equity, and inclusion, built to empower people to thrive, lead, and make a difference. As a UN Global Compact member and signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, we’re committed to achieving Net Zero by 2040 — because sustainability is not just a value; it’s a responsibility.

About the Program
The MADA National Graduate Programme (NGP) is your launchpad to an impactful career. Designed exclusively for UAE Nationals, this 18-month journey is built to empower, challenge, and shape you into a future leader.
In Phase 1, you will explore the business through three tailored 3-month rotations, giving you multi-dimensional exposure and practical insights. In Phase 2, you’ll dive deeper into a final 9-month strategic assignment, gaining leadership experience, solving real-world challenges, and driving meaningful impact.
You’ll be mentored, supported, and surrounded by people who believe in your potential — because we know the next generation of leaders is already among us.

Focus Area: Retail & Distribution Buying
This track will immerse you in the fast-paced and strategic world of luxury retail operations. Through rotations in Buying, Category Management, and Brand Partnerships, you’ll gain hands-on experience in curating assortments, analyzing product performance, and collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to bring the best of global brands to our regional customers. This pathway equips you with the commercial, analytical, and creative skills needed to thrive in a retail landscape that blends tradition with innovation.

What You’ll Need to Succeed
• Academic background in Fashion Design, Marketing, or Business Management
• Passion for product, fashion, and consumer behavior
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail and commercial awareness
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Drive to turn insights into action and impact

Where It Leads
Upon successful completion of the programme, you’ll be offered a permanent role at the next career level – the next phase of our Future Leader Journey.

What We Offer
At Chalhoub Group, your aspirations become reality. You’ll experience:
• Enriching, real-world assignments
• Leadership exposure and mentorship
• Development opportunities tailored to your journey
• Access to a competitive benefits package including healthcare, child education contributions, remote work flexibility, and exclusive employee discounts

A Pathway for Emirati Graduates
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.
While we welcome and value all applicants, this opportunity is exclusively open to UAE Nationals, as part of our commitment to nurturing national talent and building future Emirati leaders.

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Job Title: Buying Manager / Senior Buyer

Location: Dubai

Company Overview

SUMWON STUDIOS is a fashion brand group, with an innovative and creative approach to developing & designing direct-to-consumer fashion brands for a diverse global customer base.

The current brands we run are MISSGUIDED, SUMWON, AiiRZ and KiZN.

Our team of talented designers, trend forecasters, and industry experts collaborate seamlessly to bring our vision to life.

We leverage our expertise in market research, consumer insights, and design excellence to create brands that resonate with consumers. We are proud to have forged a strategic and exclusive relationship with one of the largest fashion retailers in the world. This partnership enables us to expand our reach and distribute our brands to a global audience of over 150 million customers. Where others perceive limits, we perceive opportunities.

We're building our team - ready to challenge everything and embrace bold, new-age thinking. We honour and celebrate individuality, building an international space where everyone can feel inspired and thrive.

About the Role

As a Buying Manager at SUMWON STUDIOS, you will play a key role in ensuring smooth product development, trading decisions, and market analysis.

What you'll do

Trading & Product Analysis

• Trading Move On’s– Analysing sales patterns and reacting accordingly to maximize product potential.
• Managing Recolours to ensure strong commercial offerings and quick turnaround.
• Developing strategies and data insights for new category or collection launches, ensuring range building is informed by both data and commercial product knowledge.

Product Development & Operations

• Overseeing sample management, ensuring timely approvals and coordination.
• Managing core fabrics, maintaining consistency and efficiency in material selection.
• Handling day-to-day communications with Shein, responding to queries and ensuring alignment on product direction.
• Supporting CAD reviews, trade reactions, and ad-hoc tasks as needed.

Process & Calendar Management

• Managing the critical path to ensure all key deadlines are met from development to launch.
• Organizing meetings and diaries to keep workflow efficient.
• Preparing presentations and reports to support key business decisions.

Market Awareness & Competitive Insights

• Conducting competitive shopping and market research to identify key trends and opportunities.
• Keeping a pulse on industry shifts and integrating relevant insights into product strategy.

What you’ll bring

• Strong analytical skills with an ability to interpret data and drive commercial decisions.
• Detail-oriented with excellent organizational and time-management skills.
• Experience in merchandising, buying, or product development within a fast-paced fashion environment.
• Proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and data analysis tools.
• A proactive, solution-driven mindset with strong communication skills.
• If you’re passionate about fashion, data-driven decision-making, and thrive in a fast-moving environment, we’d love to hear from you!

What we'll bring

• 25 working days of annual leave, going up to 30 working days after 1 year
• 30% employee discount on all SUMWON STUDIOS brands (SUMWON, Missguided, AiiRZ)
• Learning and development opportunities
• Company social events
• The coolest colleagues you can find

Why Join Us?

• SUMWON STUDIOS is redefining fast fashion with a forward-thinking approach. Join a creative, ambitious team, and help us build a brand that resonates.

• Seniority levelNot Applicable

• Employment typeFull-time

• Job functionStrategy/Planning and Design
• IndustriesRetail Apparel and Fashion and Retail

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A Media Buyer assumes a pivotal position in the advertising and marketing sector, entrusted with acquiring advertising space across various media platforms to effectively engage target audiences.

This professional combines analytical skills with strategic thinking to negotiate competitive rates and optimal placement for advertising campaigns.

The ideal candidate will collaborate closely with other team members such as account managers and creative teams to ensure that the media strategies align with client objectives and budget requirements.

• Maintaining effective relationships with clients and internal stakeholders
• Analyzing market trends and competitor activity
• Negotiating advertising contracts and agreements

Media Buyers must stay up-to-date with industry developments and adjust their strategies accordingly. A strong understanding of analytics tools and data interpretation is essential for evaluating campaign success and identifying areas for improvement.

In addition to these responsibilities, Media Buyers may be required to work flexible hours or participate in last-minute negotiations.

• Plan and select the range, type, quality and quantity of merchandise according to customer demand, trends, store policies and set prices and sell through targets in conjunction with the Brand Manager/GM to ensure they are in line with the budget
• Carry out buying activities in-line with the brand buying plans
• Maintain profitable relationships with existing suppliers and monitor the adherence to the contract terms
  

• Plan and select the range, type, quality and quantity of merchandise according to customer demand, trends, store policies and set prices and sell through targets in conjunction with the Brand Manager/GM to ensure they are in line with the budget
• Carry out buying activities in-line with the brand buying plans
• Maintain profitable relationships with existing suppliers and monitor the adherence to the contract terms
  

• Drive the seasonal strategies in line with the brand positioning to formulate Gross Margin Plan
• Develop a fine tuned assortment and investment plan
• Create the sourcing development plan and action the critical path to deliver timely
• Negotiate with new suppliers on product pricing, payment terms, cost of freight, provision of training, and the extent of their involvement in advertising and promotions, to decide on placing a purchase order with the supplier for the concerned product
• OTB Planning
  

• Deliver the seasonal business strategy by monitoring and impacting the critical path, range building and product selection
• Prepare and manage the buying calendar
• Formulate seasonal product focus plan with Marketing and VM to drive key product initiatives
• Focus on holding current business and build new categories
• Conducting customer focus groups and competitive shopping
  

• Analysis and reporting of weekly sales performance at style, range, category and business unit level against range plan. Take in season action to revise production flows and maximize sales
• Manage TNA plans
• Implement the buying calendar for timely seasonal analysis and range build
• Perform regular competitor surveys to identify product gaps, influence lessons learnt and range plans
• Manage range and product hierarchy and create the seasonal phasing plan
• Responsible for the ‘The Look’ for the season. Influence product selection, in-store VM as per guidelines and layout planning
• Keep abreast of market trends and awareness of competitor activities
• Manage the product training of staff to ensure up-to-date knowledge. Prepare regular trends training and deliver to the business units
• Review buying feedback reports and provide recommendations to General Manager as to buying strategy for a respective brand/collection

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

• Employment typeFull-time

• Job functionOther
• IndustriesRetail

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About SHEIN EMEA

SHEIN is a global online fashion and lifestyle retailer, providing an extensive range of affordable, SHEIN-branded apparel and products sourced from a global network of vendors. Since our founding in 2012, we have expanded to serve customers in over 150 countries worldwide. Our EMEA headquarters are in Dublin, and we now operate over 15 offices across the EMEA region.

At SHEIN, our mission is to make the beauty of fashion accessible to all. Through our industry-leading, on-demand production model, we support a smarter, more future-ready fashion industry that adapts to the changing needs of our customers.

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About the Team: The Brand Expansion Team is a fast-growing team, aimed at bringing our customer’s most loved brands to the SHEIN platform. We are a start-up function operating within a large global business which is expanding at rapid speed. This brings with it exciting opportunities, as well as complex challenges to solve.

Job Description:

Expansion Specialist provides critical admin support to our Buying teams. They help the Buying Team on-board new suppliers as well as supporting the team in selecting the most exciting fashion ranges that are loved by the SHEIN customer and driving the beat onsite experience for our beauty shoppers. They work collaboratively to ensure that the department runs smoothly, supporting with raising orders and the critical path in line with supplier and brand deadlines.

Responsibilities:

• New Supplier on-boarding support (Operation Training and Product Uploading)
• Accurately raising purchase orders in line with deadlines and managing these throughout the product lifecycle
• Maintaining the Critical Path and communicating with suppliers to ensure that we meet each key date in the go live process
• Working closely with Merchandising, Logistics, Accounts and your Brands/Suppliers daily
• Actively monitoring and improving the on-site branded experience, responsible for products being displayed in attractive manner and with correct information
• Supporting brands with building and managing their dedicated brand shops
• Invoice reconciliation and approval
• Delivering efficient administrative support to the team, to ensure that everything runs smoothly, and that relevant reports and files are up to date
• Supporting the Buying team with buys that are customer focused and aligns with the wider business strategy
• Conducting regular comp shops to understand competitor activity and pricing

Requirements:

• Is super organised, able to use their initiative with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced, demanding environment
• Has great attention to detail, to ensure all the important details such as selling price, shipment dates and product attributes are precise
• Can build great professional relationships
• Has analytical skills, knowledge in MS Office (particularly Excel), is proactive and flexible and able to adapt to changing demands
• Has excellent written and spoken communication skills in both English and Mandarin

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Job Description
This role will be responsible for forecasting, planning, and implementing strategies to achieve or exceed sales goals and maximize the profitability of our Franchise stores. In addition, you'll be responsible for buying a balanced product assortment to help showcase the adidas brand and direction.

• Responsible for all aspects of merchandising within the adidas Franchise stores.
• Support the implementation of key strategic priorities in line with the company direction and the market merchandising framework, across all Franchise doors.
• Plan, manage, and monitor the seasonal open-to-buy to reflect sales trends and adjust buys accordingly.
• To ensure sufficient stock levels, use pre-season and in-season planning and projections throughout the year.
• Proactively provide relevant in-depth analysis to support buying commitment decisions.
• Provide fact-based product input and feedback for internal/external stakeholders.
• Drive seasonal range in collaboration with Franchise Partners. Provide the historical analysis to effectively support and build the range/assortment plan.
• Analyze every aspect of best sellers and worst sellers, in-season stock cover management, and in-season reactivity and provide recommendations based on analysis.
• Action on the optimal flow of merchandise incl. fulfillment of product/marketing introduction deadlines/capacity planning.
• Specialize in merchandising systems and tools and eager to learn new systems to ensure smooth business operations.
• Travel to visit stores as needed and advised by the business.
  

• Responsible for all aspects of merchandising within the adidas Franchise stores.
• Support the implementation of key strategic priorities in line with the company direction and the market merchandising framework, across all Franchise doors.
• Plan, manage, and monitor the seasonal open-to-buy to reflect sales trends and adjust buys accordingly.
• To ensure sufficient stock levels, use pre-season and in-season planning and projections throughout the year.
• Proactively provide relevant in-depth analysis to support buying commitment decisions.
• Provide fact-based product input and feedback for internal/external stakeholders.
• Drive seasonal range in collaboration with Franchise Partners. Provide the historical analysis to effectively support and build the range/assortment plan.
• Analyze every aspect of best sellers and worst sellers, in-season stock cover management, and in-season reactivity and provide recommendations based on analysis.
• Action on the optimal flow of merchandise incl. fulfillment of product/marketing introduction deadlines/capacity planning.
• Specialize in merchandising systems and tools and eager to learn new systems to ensure smooth business operations.
• Travel to visit stores as needed and advised by the business.
  

• Excellent command of English and strong communication skills
• University degree in Marketing/Business/Sales focus/Economics
• Advanced Excel knowledge, and intermediate experience in ERPs and PowerBI
• Understanding of relevant retail management and back office systems
• Proven experience in external and internal stakeholder management
• Ability to translate analytical-based solutions into business presentations
• 3-4 years of merchandising experience (preferably with external partners)
  

• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

• Employment typeFull-time

• Job functionMarketing and Sales
• IndustriesInternet Publishing

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Bachelor of Business Administration(Management)

Nationality

Any Nationality

Vacancy

1 Vacancy

Job Description

About the Role
A leading international automotive and fintech platform is seeking a Head of Co-Buying Business Operationsto drive the expansion and operational excellence of its innovative co-buying business in the UAE. This is a high-impact leadership role for a results-driven professional with expertise in automotive procurement, dealer networks, and financial operations.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in business operations, strategic planning, and team leadership within the automotive or fintech sectors. If you are looking to make a significant impact in a rapidly growing company, this is the opportunity for you.
Key Responsibilities
Business Operations & Process Optimization

• Oversee the end-to-end co-buying process to ensure efficiency and scalability.
• Monitor KPIs and continuously improve operational performance.
• Implement strategies to streamline workflows and enhance business efficiency.

• Expand the dealer network, onboarding new partners and strengthening existing relationships.
• Negotiate and finalize contracts with dealers and key stakeholders.
• Maintain high levels of customer satisfaction and drive long-term partnerships.

• Ensure timely execution of sales transactions and prevent vehicle hold-ups.
• Oversee financial flows related to co-buying deals, ensuring compliance and reporting accuracy.
• Work closely with finance teams to optimize trade financing solutions.

• Define and negotiate deal limits, pricing, and contract terms with dealers.
• Manage ongoing contract revisions and optimize deal conditions.
• Ensure compliance with contractual obligations and risk mitigation strategies.

• Lead the purchase and sale of vehicles, ensuring smooth execution.
• Oversee repossession and resale processes when required.

• Align business operations with corporate growth objectives.
• Develop new initiatives to enhance operational efficiency and dealer engagement.
• Generate performance reports and data-driven insights for decision-making.

• Recruit, train, and manage a team of co-buying specialists.
• Foster a high-performance culture focused on results and innovation.
• Conduct regular performance evaluations and implement professional development plans.

• Ensure seamless coordination with internal teams, including finance, marketing, logistics, and IT.
• Establish efficient cross-functional processes to drive business success.

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in automotive or fintech industries.
• Strong track record in automotive procurement and sales.
• Experience in international or high-growth companies is a plus.

• Deep understanding of the automotive market and business financing models.
• Strong negotiation and deal-making skills.
• Experience working with dealer networks and B2B sales.
• Financial acumen and ability to work with data, KPIs, and analytics.
• Proficiency in CRM and Dealer Management Systems (DMS).

• Results-driven, with a focus on achieving business goals.
• Ability to build and maintain long-term partnerships.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• High adaptability and strategic thinking.
• Excellent self-organization and leadership qualities.

• Fluent English (required)
• Arabic (preferred but not mandatory)

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