Christian Dior Human Resources 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

• Serve as HR Business Partner for the Wholesale scope and Head Office team of approximately 130 employees.
• Onboard new employees across the assigned scope.
• Advise operational managers on day-to-day people matters, including contracts, HR development and disciplinary issues.
• Manage and support employees’ careers through group career exploration, mobility interviews, training and development; listen actively and provide support throughout their time with the company.
• Support managers in co-creating agile and efficient organizational structures.
• Advise and support managers throughout recruitment, from drafting job descriptions to making offers.
• Attract and recruit talent through sourcing, interviews, screening and substantiated candidate presentations to managers.
• Build Wholesale talent pools to anticipate succession plans.
• Monitor and comply with headcount (FTE) and personnel-cost budgets.
• Participate in the rollout and monitoring of employee performance reviews and salary review cycles.
• Help collect training needs and deploy the training plan.
• Design and implement development programmes for Wholesale populations.
• Conduct regular career interviews, supporting employees’ development and mobility aspirations while fostering awareness of their skills and performance.
• Participate in OMR talent reviews to identify and promote talent within the organization.
• Act as the administrative team’s point of contact for the assigned scope, including creating contract descriptions for fixed-term and permanent contracts, drafting employment promises and other correspondence, submitting Open up requests for arrivals and departures, creating and monitoring workflows, and updating and tracking HR dashboards, including movement dashboards and RISE.
• Initiate and roll out HR projects.

Qualifications

• Approximately 5–7 years of professional experience managing an employee population, preferably in a retail environment.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Innate sense of service.
• Structured and analytical approach.
• Passionate and creative.
• Team-oriented, agile and adaptable.
• Active listening skills.
• Ability to manage several projects simultaneously.
• Customer- and results-oriented.

Skills

Experience

Minimum 5 years; approximately 5–7 years managing an employee population, preferably in a retail environment.

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.

About Cerulean

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