- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Senior
- Department
- Human Resources, People & Culture
- Posted
- Sep 11, 2026
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.
Reporting to the Head of P&O for Fashion and WFJ SEAA, this strategic HR Business Partner role supports Fragrance & Beauty Products and Corporate Functions divisions in Singapore. The HRBP enables business performance and growth by shaping organization design, strengthening leadership and talent pipelines, and translating people strategy into measurable outcomes. Operating within a 1-to-few strategic partnering model, the role orchestrates complex, high-impact people and organization decisions across succession planning, workforce planning, leadership development, performance management, and culture initiatives.
Role & Responsibilities
- Build deep understanding of Fragrance & Beauty Products and Corporate Functions' priorities, operating context, workforce economics, and critical capabilities
- Partner with division leaders early on high-impact people and organization decisions; coach and challenge with clarity and courage
- Lead organization diagnosis, design, and transformation, including accountabilities, interfaces, spans, layers and capability implications
- Drive strategic workforce planning and make visible choices and trade-offs across capacity, capability, productivity and succession
- Strengthen leadership effectiveness through targeted coaching, team interventions and clear development priorities
- Drive rigorous talent and succession discussions, connecting critical roles, internal pipelines, mobility and external perspectives
- Build leader ownership for performance, feedback, recognition and consequence management
- Orchestrate integrated P&O delivery, mobilizing expertise across People Solutions & Operations Hub, Centers of Expertise and HR Operations
- Use engagement and organization insights to shape focused interventions and track progress
- Provide structured feedback to Centers of Expertise, the Hub and HR Operations to improve solutions and employee and manager experience
Qualifications
- Demonstrated strategic HR business partnering experience in complex, matrixed and fast-moving environments
- Strong business and commercial acumen, with ability to connect people and organization choices to performance, growth and outcomes
- Proven capability in organization design, strategic workforce planning, leadership advisory, talent, succession and performance management
- Influential communication and trusted challenge with judgement to navigate ambiguity, competing priorities and senior stakeholders
- Change leadership capability, including stakeholder alignment, adoption planning and sustained embedding of new ways of working
- Analytical and digital fluency, translating workforce data and qualitative insight into clear choices and action
- Enterprise mindset and collaborative discipline, with ability to mobilise expertise across P&O functions
- Courage, curiosity and learning agility with practical bias for outcomes, simplification and continuous improvement
Skills
Experience
Demonstrated strategic HR business partnering experience in a complex, matrixed and fast-moving environment, with proven capability in organization design, strategic workforce planning, leadership advisory, talent, succession and performance management across multiple business divisions or markets.
Education
Not specified
Workplace
The role is situated in Singapore, Central, Singapore.
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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.
About Cerulean
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