Chanel Fashion Shows and Events Security Manager

About Chanel

Chanel is one of the world’s most revered luxury houses, founded by Gabrielle Chanel and distinguished by an enduring vision of elegance, freedom, and modernity. As an employer, the House brings together métiers ranging from haute couture, fashion and leather goods to fragrance, beauty, watches, and fine jewelry, offering employees the opportunity to contribute to a legacy defined by exceptional craftsmanship and creative audacity. Chanel values excellence, discretion, collaboration, and long-term development, fostering an environment where talent is nurtured and heritage is continually reinterpreted for contemporary clients. Its teams are united by a commitment to quality, innovation, and the timeless spirit of the brand.

Role & Responsibilities

• Develop and lead the security roadmap for fashion shows and events, aligning it with brand-image priorities and the Security Directorate’s priorities.
• Define standards, operating principles and expected security levels for fashion shows, international replicas, events, activations and related operations.
• Anticipate risks relating to media exposure, confidentiality, guest flows, VIPs, talent, internal teams, service providers, venues, country-specific constraints and geopolitical or social contexts.
• Help establish a shared approach among security teams, event teams, markets and external partners.
• Set priorities, resource levels and security plans according to each event’s exposure and criticality.
• Oversee end-to-end security arrangements, including scoping, site visits, risk analysis, security plans, briefings, vendor coordination, operational delivery and post-event reviews.
• Ensure effective coordination among internal teams, agencies, Production, venues, markets, security vendors, public services and institutional partners when involved.
• Ensure robust on-site measures for access control, accreditation, crowd flows, backstage areas, sensitive zones, team movement, personal and property protection, and incident management.
• Support teams during critical phases, including build-up, rehearsals, shows, breakdown, travel, international replicas, activations and sensitive events.
• Manage, prioritize and support the three roles in the team: Fashion Show Security Project Manager, Events Security Project Manager and Security and Administration Officer.
• Clarify each team member’s role, responsibilities, delegation level and areas of autonomy.
• Develop the team’s capabilities in project management, risk anticipation, advisory skills, on-site coordination and vendor management.
• Establish effective management routines, including prioritization meetings, project reviews, decision-making, major-event preparation, lessons learned and action tracking.
• Ensure a balanced distribution of workload, particularly during periods of intense event activity.
• Formalize operational standards, including checklists, risk matrices, briefing templates, post-event review formats, accreditation rules and governance principles.
• Build a process for carrying lessons learned from one event to the next to strengthen continuity, reliability and effectiveness.
• Establish performance indicators covering readiness, incidents, deviations, lessons learned, vendor performance, workload, timelines and coordination quality.
• Define security resource requirements for each event with the relevant teams.
• Manage security vendors, covering briefings, scope, execution quality, service levels, compliance, performance and post-event reviews.
• Contribute to budget development and monitoring with Finance, Procurement, Production or Events teams.
• Identify opportunities to optimize resources without compromising security or the event experience.
• Ensure decisions, security arrangements, action plans, decisions and post-event reviews are documented and traceable.
• Occasionally act as Security Officer for sensitive international travel by certain employees or groups of employees, up to 3–4 times per year depending on team schedules; assess risks in advance, prepare protective measures, coordinate internal and external stakeholders and oversee the operational follow-up of sensitive travel in France and internationally.

Qualifications

• Confirmed experience in event security, security operations, managing complex security arrangements or coordinating high-profile events.
• Significant experience managing or coordinating project teams, ideally in a demanding premium, luxury, fashion, events, cultural or international environment.
• Experience managing vendors and coordinating multiple stakeholders.
• Good understanding of sensitive-event considerations, including confidentiality, brand image, VIP flows, operational pressure, on-site constraints, emergencies and unforeseen circumstances.
• Excellent anticipation, risk-analysis and prioritization skills.
• Strong operational and on-the-ground expertise, with high standards of execution.
• Ability to make decisions quickly in a changing environment and remain composed under pressure.
• Transversal leadership, collaborative approach and ability to unite stakeholders with differing priorities.
• Rigorous oversight of budgets, schedules, vendors, processes, documentation and reporting.
• Ability to structure, formalize and improve ways of working.
• Very good oral and written communication, with a clear, reassuring and solution-oriented approach.
• Professional English proficiency preferred.

Skills

Experience

Confirmed experience in event security, security operations, managing complex security arrangements or coordinating high-profile events; significant experience managing or coordinating project teams; experience managing vendors and coordinating multiple stakeholders.

Benefits

Opportunities for career development, growth and varied career paths in a Maison attentive to each person’s individuality.

Culture

Chanel fosters a culture of timeless creativity, exacting craftsmanship, and quiet excellence, where employees are encouraged to uphold the house’s heritage while contributing to its continued innovation. The workplace environment is refined, collaborative, and deeply committed to quality, offering professionals the opportunity to grow within a globally respected maison that values discretion, artistry, and long-term vision.

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