Design Specialist - Projects Delivery

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

The job holder of this position is responsible for ensuring that projects’ technical requirements are well extracted, properly communicated to the Design team, and well represented in the project programme.

The job holder is also responsible for the quality control of the designing phase output.

Ensure on-the-job coordination with internal (Projects, Contracts) stakeholders as well as external (Client, Creative) stakeholders

Ensure concepts are in line with Group Creative and client’s requirements, budget and program

Review and challenge information regarding design, specifications, materials, colour, equipment, estimated costs

Receive Head of Design approval on architectural drawings and meet with clients to finalize

Follow all relevant policies, processes and standard operating procedures so that work is carried out in a controlled and consistent manner

Participate in business development efforts in a significant role in client presentations

Carry out daily supervision and coordination of architectural drawings and proposals, ensuring adherence to SLAs

Prepare any necessary construction method statement and technical proposals to ensure smooth transition of works

Ensure that design intent is maintained through documentation and construction

What you’ll need to succeed

University Degree in Interior Design or in Architecture

LEED GA and PMP certifications are a plus.

A minimum of 4 years of relevant experience with at least 2 years in similar role.

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.