Site Merchandising Trainee – Level Shoes – Chalhoub Group

Chalhoub Group, a partner and creator of luxury experiences across the Middle East for over seven decades, is hiring a Site Merchandising Trainee for Level Shoes, one of the region’s leading luxury footwear and accessories destinations. This trainee role is built to develop a genuine understanding of visual and site merchandising within a luxury retail environment, working across fashion, accessories and lifestyle categories the way Level Shoes presents them to customers.

Expect hands-on, supervised work supporting merchandising displays, learning how product is presented to reflect both the Level Shoes brand standard and the broader luxury positioning Chalhoub Group maintains across its portfolio. As a trainee, the role is explicitly developmental — shadowing experienced merchandisers, learning the standards and reasoning behind luxury visual presentation, and gradually taking on more independent merchandising responsibility as skills build.

This suits someone with a genuine eye for visual presentation and strong interest in luxury retail, who is detail-oriented and eager to build a long-term merchandising career within one of the region’s most established luxury retail groups.

In luxury retail, how a product is presented is often as important to the sale as the product itself, which makes site merchandising a genuinely commercial function rather than a purely aesthetic one. A well-merchandised Level Shoes location directly affects conversion and average basket size, since luxury customers respond strongly to presentation cues that signal quality, exclusivity and brand coherence. Training strong merchandisers from the ground up protects Chalhoub Group's long-term merchandising standards across its portfolio, since merchandising quality depends on consistently applied judgment that's best built through structured, hands-on development rather than assumed from day one. Because Level Shoes operates within a highly competitive luxury footwear and accessories market, consistent, high-quality merchandising is one of the clearer ways the brand differentiates its in-store experience from competitors. At group scale, investing in merchandising trainees also builds a pipeline of talent who understand Chalhoub Group's broader luxury retail standards, protecting merchandising quality as the group's various brands continue to grow.

A Site Merchandising Trainee role at Level Shoes is a genuinely strong entry point into luxury retail, giving direct, structured exposure to the visual merchandising standards of one of the region's leading luxury footwear destinations. You build a practical, trained eye for luxury visual presentation that's difficult to develop outside a real retail environment, and that skill carries significant value across the broader luxury and fashion retail sector. Being part of Chalhoub Group, a major regional luxury retail partner spanning fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, eyewear and art de vivre, gives visibility into a large organization with genuine internal mobility across brands and categories as a merchandising career develops. The structured, trainee nature of the role means mentorship and guided skill-building are built in from day one, which accelerates how quickly someone becomes a fully capable merchandiser compared to learning informally elsewhere. For someone passionate about luxury retail and visual presentation, this role offers a credible, well-regarded first step toward a longer merchandising or visual retail career within the region's luxury sector. It also builds a genuinely trained eye that doesn't disappear once the traineeship ends, since the judgment developed here carries directly into any future visual or retail design role across the luxury sector.

• Genuine interest in visual merchandising, fashion retail or luxury brand presentation
• Strong attention to detail and an eye for visual consistency and presentation standards
• Willingness to learn and follow established brand and merchandising guidelines
• Good organizational skills for managing stock and display materials accurately
• Comfort working in a fast-paced luxury retail environment
• Entry-level candidates welcome; prior retail or merchandising exposure is an advantage