Project Manager - JVs Enablement Strategy Innovation & Investment

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For over seven decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. In its pursuit to excel as a hybrid luxury retailer, the Group has curated a portfolio of over 10 owned brands and strengthened its distribution and marketing expertise for over 400 international names across luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories.

Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken to build a future where luxury dreams become reality — bridging cultures and crafting memorable experiences for our consumers. Be it by constantly reinventing itself, committing to innovation, or embracing new technologies, the Group is shaping the future of luxury retail. It delivers seamless omnichannel experiences across more than 950 stores, online platforms, and mobile apps.

Driving this innovation journey is The Greenhouse — the Group’s innovation hub, incubator, and accelerator for startups and emerging businesses, regionally and globally.

Chalhoub Group fosters a people-at-heart culture rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion, and a workplace catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. Today, it brings together over 16,000 talented professionals across eight countries in the Middle East, with a presence in LATAM. Their collective efforts have earned the Group the Great Place to Work® certification in several markets.

Sustainability is at the core of the Group’s strategy, guided by a clear commitment to people, partners, and the planet. Chalhoub Group is proud to be a member of the United Nations Global Compact, a signatory of the Women’s Empowerment Principles, and to have pledged to reach Net Zero by 2040.

This role is responsible for driving the execution, orchestration, and delivery of high-impact JV enablement initiatives across Chalhoub Group’s Joint Venture portfolio.

You will support in translating strategy, operating model direction, and leadership intent into disciplined programs, structured delivery, and measurable outcomes.

The role partners closely with Group functions, JV leadership teams and Brand teams both locally and globally to ensure JVs are onboarded, integrated, and evolved with pace, clarity, and consistency - while respecting brand individuality.

• Support end-to-end delivery of JV enablement projects (new JV onboarding, operating model rollout, transformations, and major change initiatives).

• Translate strategic priorities into executable project plans with clear milestones, owners, dependencies, and outcomes.

• Act as a change agent to support, create and review RACI models, proposing enhancements & recommendations that drive stronger pace & efficiencies for our JV Partners

• Develop comprehensive project plans, milestones, critical paths, timelines and regular reporting, ensuring all crossfunction elements are executed efficiently and on schedule

• Support in providing regular leadership reports

• Identify execution gaps, bottlenecks, project risks and inefficiencies; propose and implement pragmatic solutions.

• Own the creation, maintenance, and version control of project documentation, standard templates, and reporting cadence.

• Support post-implementation reviews and embed learnings across the JV portfolio.

• Manages all logistics for high-impact touchpoints such as quarterly GM forums, culture events, and best-practice exchanges

• Co-create the annual communication plan with VP for our JV value proposition including JV mgt leadership comms, post event comms, event mgt and brand comms.

• Develop core brand communication toolkits and templates to enable consistent and aligned messaging across all JV touchpoints.

• Act as a central coordination point across Group functions (HR, Finance, Legal, Compliance, Tech, Ops, Real Estate).

• Establish good working relationships with local teams and selected HQ team members

• Maintain regular touchpoints with Group functional leads and team members (build, maintain and nurture these)

• Act as an ambassador of Chalhoub’s services

• Extensive experience in project/program management, business enablement, or…