Trainee – Supply Planning – Chalhoub Group

Chalhoub Group’s supply chain underpins the distribution of luxury fashion, beauty, jewellery, watches, and eyewear brands across the region, and a Supply Planning Trainee joins this function to learn how the group forecasts demand and manages inventory across such a diverse, premium product portfolio. This is a structured, entry-level development role designed to build a foundation in supply chain and planning.

The day-to-day work as a trainee typically involves supporting demand forecasting for assigned brands or categories, helping track inventory levels and stock movements, assisting with purchase order coordination, and learning the systems and processes the supply planning team uses to keep products flowing from suppliers to stores. Because Chalhoub distributes luxury goods across many different brand categories, each with its own seasonality and demand pattern, trainees get exposure to a genuinely varied set of planning challenges even within a single rotation.

As a trainee role, the position comes with structured learning and mentorship, meaning the expectation isn’t full autonomous ownership from day one but a progressive build-up of responsibility as the trainee demonstrates competence with the fundamentals of supply and demand planning.

This is a strong opportunity for someone early in their career, ideally with a supply chain, business, or analytical background, who wants a structured entry point into supply chain planning within a major luxury goods distribution group.

Supply planning accuracy has a direct effect on whether luxury products are available in stores when customers want them, which matters enormously in a sector where customers often won't accept a substitute if their preferred item is out of stock. A Supply Planning Trainee who learns to build accurate, careful forecasts contributes to reducing both stockouts, which cost immediate sales and can damage a brand's premium positioning, and overstock, which ties up capital and can eventually require markdowns that undermine luxury brand pricing integrity. Because Chalhoub distributes such a wide range of brand categories, each with different seasonality, lead times, and demand patterns, getting supply planning fundamentals right at the trainee level builds habits that scale well as responsibility increases across a more complex portfolio. Even at the trainee stage, small planning errors, a miscounted inventory check, a missed purchase order deadline, can create real downstream costs if not caught early, so the accuracy and diligence built into this role's training has genuine near-term business value, not just long-term development value. As trainees progress into full planning responsibility, the quality of their foundational training directly affects how reliably Chalhoub can keep its luxury brand partners' products flowing to market across the region.

A structured trainee program in supply planning provides one of the best possible entry points into a supply chain career, since it combines hands-on exposure to real planning work with the mentorship and gradual responsibility-building that helps early-career professionals develop sound judgment rather than being thrown into full ownership without support. Learning supply planning fundamentals within a genuinely complex, multi-category business like Chalhoub's builds a breadth of experience that's hard to get in a simpler, single-category supply chain role. Exposure to luxury goods distribution specifically is also a distinctive and valuable niche within supply chain, since luxury brands often have unique requirements around exclusivity, sell-through management, and brand-protective inventory practices that differ meaningfully from mass-market retail supply chains. That specialized knowledge becomes increasingly valuable as a career progresses, since fewer supply chain professionals have deep luxury sector experience, and that scarcity tends to translate into stronger long-term career options and mobility. Trainees who perform well and demonstrate strong analytical and planning fundamentals typically progress into full Supply Planner or Demand Planner roles within Chalhoub, and the structured foundation built in this program sets up a strong long-term trajectory toward Senior Planner, Supply Chain Manager, or broader supply chain leadership roles within the luxury retail and distribution sector.

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Logistics, or a related field
• Strong Excel skills and comfort working with numerical and inventory data
• Analytical mindset with attention to detail
• Good communication skills for working with cross-functional teams
• Genuine interest in supply chain, planning, or the luxury retail sector
• Willingness to learn and take structured guidance from senior planners
• Organized and reliable, with the ability to manage recurring planning tasks