Executive Assistant – Office of the CEO – Chalhoub Group

Chalhoub Group, a partner and creator of luxury for over seven decades across fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories, is hiring an Executive Assistant for the Office of the CEO in Dubai, a senior support role working at the very top of one of the region’s most established luxury business groups.

The role covers managing the CEO’s calendar and priorities, coordinating meetings and correspondence often involving senior internal leadership and external partners, and handling sensitive and confidential information with real discretion. Because the Office of the CEO touches almost every part of a diversified group like Chalhoub, this role also requires enough commercial awareness to understand the context behind what’s being scheduled and communicated, not just the logistics of it.

This suits an experienced executive assistant who’s genuinely organized under pressure, trustworthy with confidential and sensitive material, and polished enough to represent the CEO’s office professionally in every interaction, internal or external. People who thrive in this kind of role combine impeccable attention to detail with the judgment to anticipate needs before being asked.

An Executive Assistant to the CEO directly affects how efficiently the most senior leadership of the company can operate, since poorly managed time, missed priorities, or mishandled communication at this level has ripple effects across decisions that touch the entire group, not just the CEO's own schedule. Because the Office of the CEO is often where sensitive strategic matters are discussed and coordinated, the discretion and judgment exercised in this role protects the confidentiality that senior leadership decision-making depends on, a trust that, once broken, is difficult to rebuild. The professionalism and responsiveness of this role also shapes how external partners, major luxury brand principals, senior stakeholders, and others experience the CEO's office, which matters for a company whose entire business is built on representing prestigious luxury brands with the right level of polish and reliability. In a diversified group spanning fashion, beauty, jewellery, and more, efficient coordination at this level also helps make sure the CEO's limited time is allocated toward the highest-impact priorities across the business, rather than being consumed by poorly managed logistics.

Supporting a CEO directly provides genuinely unmatched visibility into how senior leadership actually makes decisions and manages priorities across a large, diversified organization, an perspective that's extremely difficult to access any other way early in a career and invaluable for anyone with ambitions toward business leadership or senior operations roles later on. The discretion, judgment, and composure required to handle sensitive information and high-stakes scheduling at this level builds a level of professional trust and reputation that opens doors to increasingly senior executive support or chief-of-staff-style roles over time. Working within Chalhoub Group specifically also means exposure to how a major luxury business group operates, relationships with internationally recognized luxury brand partners, and the particular standard of polish and discretion the luxury industry expects, experience that's highly valued both within luxury retail and in any client-facing senior role elsewhere. Because this role touches nearly every part of the business through the CEO's office, it also builds a uniquely broad understanding of how a diversified group actually functions, knowledge that's valuable context for almost any future role within the organization or industry. For an experienced executive assistant looking to work at the highest level of a prestigious, well-regarded group, this role offers rare visibility and genuine career-defining experience.

• Significant experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally supporting C-suite or senior leadership
• Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to manage a complex, shifting calendar and priorities
• Absolute discretion and trustworthiness when handling confidential and sensitive information
• Polished, professional communication skills for both internal and external interactions
• Strong proficiency with standard office and scheduling software
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment at the top of a large organization