Job Description

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Buying & Category Management
Lead and manage the entire buying process, across Home Fragrance brands and product lines, in order to ensure right and commercially viable product ranges, customer satisfaction, improvement on year-on-year sales, margins and stock levels.
Inspire the buying team to think creatively, in order to deliver newness in the product range.
Oversee category management in order to ensure maximization of sales and profitability.
Manage financial goals including pre-season plans, in-season projections, open-to-buy etc. in order to support retail requirements, whilst maintaining alignment with financial parameters.
Lead the process of aligning the merchandising planners with the OTB to ensure that the right assortment is delivered to the stores
Responsibilities:
Technical & Commercial Skills

• Strong commercial acumen with understanding of margins, costings, and retail math.
• Skilled in vendor negotiations and product lifecycle management.
• Strong analytical skills and proficiency in Excel and PowerPoint.
• Optimised assortment building, stock and end-to- end category management.

Creative & Aesthetic Skills
? Demonstrates strong design sensibility in selecting or developing fragrance products.
? Understands how scent, packaging, color, and naming work together as a unified story- concept and story-telling.
? Capable of building seasonal and thematic collections (e.g., Ramadan, wellness, gifting).
? Can create clear and inspiring product briefs or mood boards for new fragrance concepts.
? Collaborates effectively with packaging designers and visual merchandising teams.
? Has a good eye for materials, bottle shapes, textures, and finishes that appeal to the target market.
Qualifications:
Trend Awareness & Innovation Insight
? Tracks global trends in fragrance, wellness, beauty, and interior decor.
? Uses trend tools (e.g., WGSN, Pinterest, Instagram, trade fairs) to inspire assortment planning.
? Anticipates shifts in consumer mindset (e.g., clean beauty, mindfulness, nostalgia).
? Spots early signs of lifestyle-based scent needs (e.g., sleep, focus, calm, mood enhancement).
? Incorporates trending ingredients or scent accords in product selection.
About Us:
Our journey started in 1973 with a single store in Bahrain. Since then, we have grown into a global retail and hospitality group. The proud creator of 25 plus value led, own-built brands across retail, hospitality, food, and leisure.
Over the years, our UAE - based group has evolved into a comprehensive retail and hospitality entity, with over 2200 retail stores, leisure, and hospitality outlets, panning the GCC, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and Africa. Today, Landmark Group is one of GCC's largest omnichannel retailers and India's top home and fashion retailer.
We take immense pride in the organic growth of our retail brands, which have blossomed into household names. From Max, Splash, Babyshop, Centrepoint, Shoemart, Homecentre, Emax, Fitness First, to Funcity, to name a few, our brands span across a multitude of categories, enriching the lives of countless families over the past decade.
About the Team:
Home Centre is the largest omnichannel retailer for home furnishings in the Middle East, North Africa & the Indian sub-continent.
Home Centre offers outstanding value, quality products, and exceptional customer experience which is revealed in their new brand identity that is underpinned by their customer-first approach of enabling every home to tell its own unique story.
Established in 1995 with its first store in the UAE, today Home Centre has a wide network of over 80 stores, across the UAE, KSA, Bahrain, Egypt, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and India. Easy to navigate and serving as a one-stop solution for all home furnishing, the Home Centre e-commerce platform provides customers an extensive range of over 14,000 products at the tip of the fingers.

Skills Required