Senior Manager – Distribution Centre – Chalhoub Group

Chalhoub Group, a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East for over seven decades across fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear, and art de vivre categories, is hiring a Senior Manager for its Distribution Centre operations in Dubai. This role sits within the supply chain function that underpins Chalhoub’s luxury retail business, responsible for the efficient, accurate, and carefully handled movement of high-value luxury goods from the distribution centre out to stores and boutiques across the region.

The role involves overseeing distribution centre operations at a senior level, managing warehouse teams, inventory accuracy, and outbound logistics to stores, all while maintaining the exacting standards of care that luxury goods require, since a scratched watch or damaged handbag represents real financial loss and brand risk in a way that mass-market retail logistics doesn’t carry to the same degree. Because Chalhoub represents a wide range of luxury brands across multiple categories, the distribution centre has to manage genuine complexity, different brands with different handling requirements, seasonal collections with tight launch timelines, and the kind of security and loss-prevention standards that high-value goods demand.

This role suits an experienced supply chain or distribution centre leader with a background in high-value, complex, or luxury goods logistics, combined with strong people management skills for leading a sizeable warehouse team. Genuine attention to detail and comfort with the elevated handling and security standards that luxury retail logistics requires are essential.

It’s a strong opportunity for a senior logistics professional to lead distribution operations within one of the region’s most established luxury retail groups.

Distribution centre operations for a luxury retail group like Chalhoub carry a materially different risk and value profile than standard retail logistics, since the goods moving through the system, watches, jewellery, designer fashion, and beauty products, represent significant per-unit value, meaning any inefficiency, damage, or security lapse translates into real, immediate financial loss rather than a minor operational hiccup. A Senior Manager who runs this function well protects Chalhoub's relationships with the luxury brands it partners with, since those brands trust Chalhoub to handle their products with a level of care that matches the brand's own premium positioning, and any failure here risks damaging those partnerships. Efficient distribution is also what allows new seasonal collections to reach stores on time for launch, which matters enormously in luxury retail where timing and exclusivity around new collections are central to the customer experience and brand prestige. Beyond individual brand relationships, strong distribution centre operations support Chalhoub's overall ability to serve its extensive multi-brand, multi-category portfolio efficiently, which is what allows the group to keep adding and successfully representing new luxury brands across the region. In luxury retail specifically, operational excellence behind the scenes is what makes the polished, seamless customer experience in-store actually possible.

Senior distribution centre leadership within a luxury retail context builds a genuinely specialized and highly respected supply chain skill set, since managing high-value, brand-sensitive logistics at scale requires a different level of rigor and care than standard retail distribution, making this experience stand out clearly on a resume within both luxury retail and broader high-value logistics sectors. Working within Chalhoub Group specifically, given its seven-decade history and position as the region's leading luxury retail partner, provides exposure to genuinely world-class brand relationships and operational standards that few other companies in the region can match. The people management and stakeholder coordination skills built running a sizeable distribution operation across multiple luxury brand partners also build broad leadership capability that transfers well into senior supply chain or operations roles beyond luxury retail specifically. For someone building a long-term career in supply chain or logistics leadership, the combination of scale, complexity, and brand-sensitivity involved in this role provides genuinely differentiated experience. Given Chalhoub's scale and reputation, strong performance in this Senior Manager role also positions someone well for further advancement into regional supply chain leadership or broader operations director roles, whether that progression continues within Chalhoub or moves to another major luxury retail or high-value goods logistics organization.

• Extensive experience in distribution centre or warehouse operations at a senior management level, ideally within luxury, high-value, or complex multi-brand goods logistics
• Strong people management skills for leading a sizeable warehouse and logistics team
• Deep understanding of inventory accuracy, security, and loss-prevention standards appropriate for high-value goods
• Experience managing seasonal collection launches and tight distribution timelines
• Strong analytical skills for optimizing distribution centre efficiency and outbound logistics performance
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, or a related field
• Excellent stakeholder management skills for working with multiple luxury brand partners with differing requirements