Hermès Risk and Foresight Manager

About Hermès

Hermès is an independent French luxury house renowned for its artisanal heritage across leather goods, ready-to-wear, silk and accessories. The Maison emphasizes long-term craftsmanship, decentralized creative autonomy and rigorous quality standards; as an employer it values discretion, cross-functional collaboration and respect for traditional savoir-faire alongside progressive corporate governance.

Role & Responsibilities

• Identify and anticipate strategic, operational and emerging risks across the group and its subsidiaries; provide actionable insights to inform medium- and long-term strategic decisions.
• Design and deliver strategic foresight activities: horizon scanning, identification of weak signals, trend analysis and development of medium- to long-term scenarios.
• Structure and maintain group-level risk mapping and prioritisation frameworks; define update cadences by entity size and monitor execution against plan.
• Integrate entity, project and regulatory risk analyses into a consolidated group view to ensure comprehensive coverage and avoid silos.
• Organise and facilitate internal workshops, working groups and events to disseminate a culture of foresight and strengthen risk awareness across functions and subsidiaries.
• Manage external providers engaged on foresight and risk projects, overseeing deliverables, timelines and quality standards.
• Develop and deliver internal communications and tailored content on risk themes and foresight outputs for business lines and subsidiaries.
• Line-manage and develop a small team (two direct reports: a risk officer and a foresight officer), ensuring quality of analyses, reports and strategic notes.
• Report to the Director of Governance and Organisational Development and ensure transversal coordination with the Audit & Risks Directorate.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree (Bac+5) in social sciences, political science, business school or equivalent.
• Demonstrated initiative, creativity and capacity to generate original perspectives on complex, novel issues.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; proven ability to produce high-quality reports and strategic notes.
• Strong interpersonal skills: active listening, diplomacy, pedagogy and ease in stakeholder engagement at all levels.
• Ability to work collaboratively and promote collective intelligence across multidisciplinary teams.
• Professional-level English (written and spoken) is indispensable.

Skills

Experience

Minimum c.5 years of progressive experience in risk management, strategic foresight, corporate governance or a related advisory function, preferably within a large multinational or luxury goods environment. Proven experience supervising small teams and managing cross-entity projects.

Education

Master’s degree (Bac+5) in social sciences, political science, business administration or equivalent.

Workplace

Culture

Hermès combines deep-rooted artisanal tradition with disciplined corporate governance. The workplace culture privileges craftsmanship, intellectual curiosity and collaborative problem-solving, offering exposure to the full breadth of the Maisons operations from holding and production to distribution.

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