Chanel Security Systems Project 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

• Deploy the technical security systems strategy defined by the manager and ensure that project solutions comply with current standards, technical architectures and integration rules.
• Work across video surveillance and CCTV, access control, intrusion and perimeter detection, intercom and security communications, visitor and access management, supervision and hypervision, key management and locking systems, protection of sensitive areas, connected security solutions and new technologies.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying where security standards and integration rules need to evolve and supporting updates with the relevant teams; apply existing reference standards rather than defining the global technical strategy or standards.
• Engage with projects from the earliest design stages to incorporate security needs, including site construction and extensions, renovations and workshop reconfigurations, new spaces, relocations, building transformations, restricted-access areas, compliance and modernization projects.
• Assess project security risks and needs with stakeholders; help define functional and technical requirements and prepare specifications.
• Consult integrators and suppliers, assess and challenge proposed solutions, and contribute to selecting suitable equipment and technologies.
• Track schedules, budgets and resources; support studies and works; verify that installations meet defined requirements and applicable standards; organize testing and acceptance, support commissioning and hand over to operational teams.
• Ensure that documentation is available to support the operation and future maintenance of installations.
• Support Fashion Division events in France and abroad, including runway shows, presentations and collection launches, press events, showrooms, client events, VIP receptions, temporary installations and internal events.
• Assess event-specific security needs and help deploy appropriate arrangements in line with management guidance and applicable standards; coordinate access control and requests, temporary video surveillance and protection of sensitive areas.
• Coordinate with local security teams and security providers, ensure emergency and incident-escalation procedures are defined and operational, and conduct post-event reviews to identify improvements for future editions.
• Coordinate assigned international projects with internal teams, local contacts and providers, implementing project solutions while accounting for local constraints and working with relevant functions to identify applicable regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate local providers and monitor the quality of installations and services; arrange technical travel for site surveys, installations, tests, acceptance, and runway shows.
• Report regularly to the Events and Runway Shows Security Manager on international event and runway-show projects; adapt effectively to differing international cultural and professional environments.
• Manage projects end to end, from scoping through commissioning and operational handover, across design, consultation, delivery, acceptance and operation.
• Track project schedules, budgets, resources, risks and quality; coordinate contributors, organize project meetings and report to stakeholders.
• Maintain project documentation, track changes and actions, manage outstanding items, apply relevant standards and integration rules, and alert management to difficulties, deviations or decisions requiring arbitration.
• Draft specifications and support supplier and provider consultations; analyze technical and commercial proposals, compare solutions and associated costs, and support supplier selection with relevant teams.
• Track quotations from receipt through approval, ensuring alignment with project needs and budgets; prepare and monitor equipment orders, delivery timelines and availability for installation or commissioning, and verify deliveries against orders.
• Manage integrators and subcontractors, monitor service quality, contractual commitments, intervention timelines and delivery progress; organize technical acceptance and follow warranties, maintenance and necessary equipment replacements.
• Work closely with suppliers and operational teams to ensure smooth purchasing follow-up and cost control.
• Contribute to security systems governance by maintaining a consolidated view of installations within the remit, updating equipment mapping and installation inventories, monitoring obsolescence and contributing to the multi-year investment plan.
• Monitor technical incidents, performance indicators and improvement plans; identify project issues and propose improvements to standards, integration rules and technical practices, contributing to their evolution based on operational feedback.
• Identify modernization opportunities and propose solutions to improve security, installation reliability, user experience and cost control.
• Travel regularly in France, Europe and internationally; maintain availability in line with the events calendar, including occasional work outside regular hours.

Qualifications

• Higher education at Bac+3 to Bac+5 level in security or safety, engineering, electronics or electrical engineering, IT and networks, project management, real estate or construction, or equivalent professional experience.
• Experience managing electronic security projects.
• Experience in an industrial, retail, luxury or fashion, real estate, logistics or events environment; experience in an international group and managing multi-site and international projects are assets.
• Good command or knowledge of video surveillance, access control and intrusion detection.
• Good understanding of IP networks applied to security systems, supervision systems and security systems architectures.
• Comfort managing technical projects, tenders and suppliers.
• Ability to read plans and technical documentation, organize acceptance and commissioning, and monitor budgets.
• Knowledge of cybersecurity issues relating to connected security systems is an asset.
• Ability to collaborate, adapt to varied situations and unite teams around a project, while demonstrating organization, rigor and autonomy; able to step back, focus on essentials and maintain clear priorities when managing several projects in parallel.
• Service orientation, pragmatism and a solutions-focused approach, with the ability to work urgently when operational constraints require it.
• Good communication skills for liaising with internal teams, suppliers and partners.
• Negotiation skills, discretion and strict confidentiality when handling information.
• Ability to work in an international environment and adapt to different professional contexts.
• Fluent spoken and written French and very good command of English; a third language is an asset.

Skills

Experience

Experience managing electronic security projects; experience in an industrial, retail, luxury or fashion, real estate, logistics or events environment. International-group and multi-site or international project experience are assets.

Education

Bac+3 to Bac+5 higher education in security or safety, engineering, electronics or electrical engineering, IT and networks, project management, real estate or construction, or equivalent professional experience.

Benefits

Opportunities for career development, growth and varied career paths.

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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