Christian Dior Festive Retail Marketing Project Manager
- Location
- Paris Île-de-France France
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Manager
- Department
- Retail & Boutique Operations
- Industry
- Fashion, Apparel & Leather Goods
- Posted
- Oct 8, 2026
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.
The Festive Retail Marketing Project Manager contributes to Christian Dior’s global client activation strategy for local celebrations, festive occasions and boutique openings, coordinating events, in-store experiences, performance tracking and cross-functional teams. The permanent, full-time, on-site role also includes supervising an intern.
Role & Responsibilities
- Contribute to developing and deploying the annual 360° retail client activation plan for local celebrations, festive occasions and Dior boutique openings, working with key teams and aligning it with client needs and House objectives.
- Contribute to the evolution of the retail marketing 360° client strategy with cross-functional teams.
- Analyze post-event results and gather feedback to assess retail activity impact on brand image, revenue and client experience.
- Share recommendations to optimize future activation projects.
- Coordinate the international rollout of retail events for local celebrations, festive occasions and Dior boutique openings with headquarters teams—including visual merchandising, image, logistics and graphic design—and regional teams, ensuring compliance with House standards.
- Contribute to developing and optimizing cross-functional tools to improve operational efficiency and streamline processes with visual merchandising, image, business units and regional teams.
- For each local celebration, festive occasion or boutique opening, design and coordinate innovative, distinctive in-store client experiences, including gathering market needs, brainstorming concepts, developing prototypes with suppliers, managing tenders, launching production and overseeing logistics.
- Deploy guidelines for in-store activations such as Christmas, Lunar New Year, Mid-Autumn Festival and boutique openings to ensure consistent, high-quality execution.
- Monitor worldwide deliveries to boutiques and coordinate recharging costs to all markets.
- Propose new client animations and activation concepts suited to market-specific needs and key retail calendar moments.
- Ensure retail activations contribute to the House’s client KPIs and objectives.
- Conduct competitor monitoring to identify innovative practices and opportunities that can enrich the client activation portfolio and inform future projects.
- Supervise an intern.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree plus five years of higher education (Bac +5) from a business school, university or equivalent.
- Experience in cross-functional project coordination.
- Strong organizational skills, rigor and ability to manage several projects simultaneously.
- Autonomy, proactivity and a proactive, solutions-oriented approach.
- Analytical and synthesis skills.
- Strong interpersonal skills and team spirit.
- Creativity and sensitivity to client experience.
- Fluent English.
- Experience in a luxury, fashion or premium environment is an advantage.
Skills
Experience
At least 5 years; 4–5 years in operational marketing project management, retail marketing, events or client development.
Education
Bac +5 degree from a business school, university or equivalent.
Workplace
This position is based in Paris, Île-de-France, France.
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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