Christian Dior Global Head of Leadership and Learning

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.

Christian Dior Couture seeks a Global Head of Leadership and Learning to shape and deliver the Maison’s global learning and leadership strategies, including management development, coaching and AI-related upskilling. The role is permanent and full-time, based on-site in Paris.

Role & Responsibilities

• Define and lead the Maison’s global learning strategy, gathering skills-development needs across business functions and geographic regions and aligning the strategy with Dior’s global direction.
• Anticipate changes in roles and required skills, and develop skills plans with the relevant entities.
• Lead the learning value chain: identify, assess and select external training partners; oversee instructional design for online and offline programmes; manage learning-content distribution platforms; improve the learning offer and processes; and define and monitor performance indicators across in-person and digital training, coaching and mentoring.
• Lead the team and providers delivering management training sessions, coordinate contributions from internal leaders and external experts, and track participants, trainers and coaches.
• Develop and implement, with business functions, a skills-development and change-management strategy linked to the acceleration of Dior’s AI roadmap.
• Define the expected leadership skills and behaviours in line with Dior’s strategy and the Group’s convictions.
• Develop individual and group coaching: select and contract internal and external coaches, recommend suitable coaches and arrange coach–coachee introductions, monitor and evaluate coaching effectiveness, and develop the coaching offer and related partnerships.

Qualifications

• Higher-education degree at Bac+5 level, such as a business school qualification, with a specialisation in Human Resources, Skills Development, Management or an equivalent field.
• At least 10 years of significant experience in Learning & Development, ideally in an international environment or luxury house, including substantial experience facilitating training or in instructional design.
• Comprehensive command of the learning value chain, from needs assessment through evaluation and ROI measurement of learning initiatives.
• Ability to define and lead a clear vision for skills and leadership development.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and proven ability to communicate with stakeholders at different levels, both internally and externally.
• Strong ability to independently lead complex projects from design through implementation, with a rigorous and collaborative approach.
• Intellectual curiosity, creativity and proactivity in proposing innovative solutions suited to business needs.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to anticipate needs and manage priorities.
• Collaborative team spirit and ability to unite teams around shared objectives.
• Fluent English, written and spoken; another language is an advantage.
• Excellent command of Microsoft Office, particularly advanced Excel and PowerPoint functions; knowledge of e-learning tools and platforms.

Skills

Experience

At least 10 years of significant Learning & Development experience, ideally in an international environment or luxury house, including substantial experience facilitating training or in instructional design.

Education

Higher-education degree at Bac+5 level, such as a business school qualification, with a specialisation in Human Resources, Skills Development, Management or an equivalent field.

Workplace

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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