Chanel Senior Strategy 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

• Contribute to defining and leading strategic-thinking projects for the Fashion Activities over the short, medium and long term.
• Analyze complex issues, formulate hypotheses, conduct research and develop evidence-based recommendations.
• Draw on a range of internal and external sources and expertise to build a rich, factual and distinctive perspective on key issues.
• Help identify major growth drivers, emerging opportunities and risks to anticipate for the Fashion Activities.
• Contribute to developing scenarios, strategic convictions and roadmaps that translate thinking into action.
• Produce high-standard deliverables, including briefing notes, analyses, recommendations, presentations and decision-preparation documents.
• Define and implement project-specific methodologies, work plans and governance arrangements.
• Organize, plan and monitor project progress, ensuring deadlines, expected quality and stakeholder alignment.
• Prepare and facilitate working groups, workshops and knowledge-sharing sessions with contributing teams.
• Coordinate internal expertise, facilitate information flow and consolidate contributions.
• Support the Strategy Director in preparing decisions and presenting work to key Fashion governance bodies.
• Contribute to defining monitoring and impact indicators with the teams responsible for project deployment.
• Monitor developments that could transform the Fashion landscape, including sociocultural, geopolitical, economic, technological, environmental and regulatory trends.
• Track developments in fashion, luxury, culture, hospitality and creative industries, including company strategies, new models, performance, reputation, innovation and consumer practices.
• Pay particular attention to dynamics in geographies of strategic importance to the Maison.
• Identify emerging signals, contextualize them and draw out concrete implications for the Fashion Activities.
• Inform the Strategy Director’s thinking and content prepared for Fashion governance bodies.
• Identify and recommend suitable external partners for project needs, including consultancies, experts, agencies, institutions, and cultural or academic organizations.
• Co-develop briefs, contribute to selection processes and help scope assignments with the Strategy Director.
• Manage partner relationships by facilitating exchanges, monitoring progress, challenging deliverables and ensuring the expected standard.
• Build on completed collaborations and help develop a structured understanding of the Strategy Cell’s expert ecosystem.
• Ensure external perspectives are effectively combined with CHANEL’s internal expertise in each project.

Qualifications

• Master’s-level higher education, ideally in business, political science, university studies, design or humanities.
• Five to eight years of experience in a demanding environment, such as a strategy or transformation consultancy, branding or foresight agency, or strategy, marketing or innovation department.
• Experience in luxury, fashion, culture, hospitality or creative industries is particularly valued.
• International exposure and confidence in multicultural environments.
• Fluent French and English, spoken and written.
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and/or Keynote.
• Excellent writing skills and attention to detail.

Skills

Experience

Five to eight years in a demanding environment, such as a strategy or transformation consultancy, branding or foresight agency, or strategy, marketing or innovation department.

Education

Master’s-level higher education, ideally in business, political science, university studies, design or humanities.

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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