Supply Chain Manager – Zimmerman – Chalhoub Group

This role manages supply chain operations for the Zimmermann brand, distributed by Chalhoub Group across the luxury fashion, beauty, and lifestyle categories the group represents. Day to day, that means managing inventory planning and allocation across stores, coordinating with brand partners and logistics providers on shipment timing, monitoring stock levels against sales performance, and resolving supply chain disruptions as they arise.

Luxury fashion supply chains carry particular complexity, since timing matters a great deal – new collections need to land in stores when they’re still fresh and on-trend, and getting allocation wrong, whether overstocked or understocked, directly affects both sales and brand presentation. Coordination with the brand partner itself, not just internal teams, is a core part of how this role functions.

This suits an experienced supply chain or inventory management professional with fashion or luxury retail exposure specifically.

It’s a strong fit for someone who enjoys the planning discipline of supply chain work combined with the commercial stakes of luxury fashion retail.

In luxury fashion retail, having the right stock in the right store at the right time is the difference between a sale and a missed one, and a Supply Chain Manager's planning directly determines whether Zimmermann stores across the Chalhoub network carry what customers actually want to buy. Poor allocation shows up as both lost sales from stockouts on popular items and costly markdowns from overstock on slow movers, both of which directly affect brand profitability. Because luxury fashion also depends on timely, well-presented new collections, supply chain execution here protects the brand experience customers expect from Chalhoub's luxury positioning, which has knock-on effects for the broader brand partnership relationship. There's also a seasonality angle worth naming: fashion supply chains run on tighter, more unforgiving timing than many other retail categories because collections lose relevance quickly, which means the cost of a late or mistimed shipment is measured not just in lost sales but in markdown pressure on stock that arrives after the trend window has passed.

Supply chain experience within a luxury fashion distribution business builds a genuinely specialized skill set - demand planning, brand-partner coordination, and inventory allocation specifically for premium or luxury product - that's valued across the fashion and luxury retail sector. This is a strong platform toward senior supply chain, inventory planning, or category operations roles within luxury retail. Working across Chalhoub's broad brand portfolio, spanning fashion, beauty, jewellery, and more, also gives exposure to how supply chain strategy differs across luxury categories, which is useful breadth for anyone aiming at a regional supply chain leadership role later. Brand-partner coordination experience, specifically working directly with a fashion house rather than just internal logistics teams, is also a distinctive and valuable credential within luxury retail supply chain careers. There's also a specialization angle worth naming: supply chain professionals who've proven they can manage the tighter timing and brand-partner complexity specific to fashion are a distinct, sought-after profile compared with general retail supply chain experience, which tends to translate into stronger offers when moving between luxury fashion employers. On top of that, this kind of role also builds genuine crisis-management skill, since fashion supply chains rarely run perfectly, and the ability to resolve disruption quickly under real commercial pressure is a quality hiring managers specifically look for.

• Proven supply chain or inventory management experience, ideally within fashion or luxury retail
• Strong analytical skills for demand planning and stock allocation
• Experience coordinating with brand partners, freight, and logistics providers
• Ability to manage and resolve supply disruptions quickly
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business, or a related field