Christian Dior Ethics and Compliance Manager

About Christian Dior

Christian Dior, founded in Paris in 1946, stands as one of the world’s most influential maisons, uniting haute couture, ready-to-wear, leather goods, fragrance, beauty, and exceptional retail experiences. As an employer, Dior offers a culture shaped by artistic audacity, meticulous craftsmanship, and the pursuit of excellence, where heritage and innovation continually enrich one another. Its teams collaborate across ateliers, studios, boutiques, and corporate functions within an international environment that values elegance, precision, inclusivity, and entrepreneurial spirit. Working at Dior means contributing to a legacy of timeless style while helping define the future of luxury with creativity, discipline, and purpose.

Role & Responsibilities

• Receive, register and acknowledge reports and alerts from reporting channels, HR, managers, Maisons and LVMH within required timeframes.
• Determine case routing and governance requirements, escalate sensitive matters when needed, lead ethics and compliance alerts, and coordinate HR-related cases with the relevant HR teams or entities.
• Protect the confidentiality of reporters, subjects and case facts, and prevent retaliation.
• Manage reporting tools and coordinate with LVMH's investigations team.
• Define the scope and investigation plan, and assemble the investigation team, including ethics and compliance, HR, finance and IT investigators.
• Conduct or supervise internal investigations while respecting the right to be heard and the rights of the individuals concerned.
• Work to a defined timetable with investigators from Maisons and entities, including HR, finance, legal and IT teams, and external providers when required.
• Document every stage of investigations and ensure case files remain secure and confidential.
• Draft factual, objective and well-supported findings reports for relevant decision-makers.
• Monitor action plans through case closure and inform the reporter and concerned individuals when a case is closed.
• Train and support the investigations community in investigation methodology.
• Advise entities and Maisons on sensitive cases and decisions, taking local contexts into account.
• Identify and engage HR and finance contacts at each Maison.
• Communicate Group requirements and procedures to Maisons and liaise with the LVMH team.
• Prepare alert indicators and share them with the HR community.
• Produce periodic reports for Ethics and Compliance leadership, Division governance bodies and LVMH.
• Lead annual campaigns to display the reporting system across Maisons and entities, including planning and distributing materials, engaging HR and local contacts, and verifying that materials are displayed.
• Manage annual conflicts-of-interest campaigns with HR, assess reported or detected situations, define mitigation measures with HR and ensure Maison decisions are traceable.
• Ensure gifts and invitations policies are implemented, handle requests and declarations, maintain registers, assess sensitive situations and manage Maison declaration tools.
• Develop and distribute ethics and compliance communications, materials and awareness campaigns for Maisons, managers and employees, ensuring consistent messaging.
• Lead ethics and compliance awareness for Maisons, managers and exposed populations, and monitor participation and results.

Qualifications

• Higher education in law, compliance, audit, internal investigations or an equivalent field.
• At least 5 years of experience, including investigation experience.
• Ability to work with varied stakeholders in an international, multicultural and decentralized environment.
• Work across the 11 Maisons of the Beauty Division, which has 30,000 employees across 30 countries.
• Excellent writing and interpersonal skills.
• Fluent French and English.

Skills

Experience

At least 5 years of experience, including investigation experience.

Education

Higher education in law, compliance, audit, internal investigations or an equivalent field.

Culture

Christian Dior fosters a culture of refined creativity, exceptional craftsmanship, and continuous innovation, where teams are encouraged to uphold the Maison’s heritage while shaping the future of luxury. As an employer, it offers a dynamic and exacting environment that values collaboration, excellence, and the development of talent across artistic, retail, and corporate disciplines.

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