LVMH Responsible Procurement and Duty of Vigilance Manager

About LVMH

LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, the world leader in luxury, unites more than 75 distinguished Maisons across fashion and leather goods, wines and spirits, perfumes and cosmetics, watches and jewelry, and selective retailing. As an employer, the Group offers a uniquely international environment where heritage, creativity, craftsmanship, and entrepreneurial spirit meet. It cultivates exceptional talent through mobility, mentoring, and rigorous learning, while empowering teams to shape the future of desirable, sustainable luxury. LVMH seeks individuals who combine excellence with curiosity, aesthetic sensibility with business acumen, and respect for tradition with the courage to innovate.

Role & Responsibilities

• Manage the Group’s direct operational oversight of suppliers, ensuring the effective integration of ethical, social, environmental and human rights requirements into selection processes.
• Influence, coordinate and support the Maisons in applying Group standards to their suppliers, including where they retain their own supplier panels.
• Analyze the risk mapping of indirect procurement.
• Define priorities, resources and the roadmap for responsible procurement.
• Define risk-reduction strategies covering processes, tools and organization.
• Monitor progress and report on indirect procurement duty-of-vigilance measures.
• Lead the responsible procurement initiative with central and regional buyers.
• Lead the responsible procurement initiative with the Maisons.
• Provide frameworks, tools, guidelines, training and structures to help the Maisons deploy responsible procurement requirements.
• Promote the sharing of best practices, convergence of approaches and development of organizational maturity.
• Manage crises involving suppliers operating under conditions that do not meet Group requirements.
• Coordinate investigations, analyze causes and assess the severity of situations.
• Define remediation plans with category managers, the Maisons, the suppliers concerned and internal stakeholders, including Human Resources, Ethics & Compliance and Legal.
• Recommend clear decisions when identified non-compliance is incompatible with Group standards.
• Support the Maisons in managing sensitive situations involving their own suppliers.
• Act as the interface between Procurement, Environment, Social Engagement, Controlling, Internal Audit and the Maisons.
• Escalate arbitration decisions, priorities and improvement plans to the appropriate governance level.
• Help embed supplier due-diligence issues sustainably in the Group’s procurement practices, tools and culture.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree at Bac+5 level.
• Significant experience in responsible procurement, supplier compliance, ESG risk management, human rights, audit or responsible supply chain.
• Experience in an international, complex and decentralized environment, ideally within a multi-brand or multi-entity group with a substantial external supplier base.
• Demonstrated ability to combine direct operational management with cross-functional leadership through influence.
• Sound understanding of human rights, duty of vigilance, ethics, environmental issues, traceability and the management of high-risk suppliers.
• Experience establishing standards, control systems, audit plans and remediation measures.
• Experience managing crises and issues with significant reputational sensitivity.
• Fluent French and English.
• Personal qualities: influential leadership; high standards and integrity; diplomacy and powers of persuasion; listening and teaching skills; ability to make decisions in complex contexts; strong awareness of ethical, social and environmental issues.

Skills

Experience

At least 10 years; ideally 10–15 years or more in responsible procurement, supplier compliance, ESG risk management, human rights, audit or responsible supply chain.

Education

Advanced degree at Bac+5 level.

Culture

LVMH fosters a culture where creativity, craftsmanship, and entrepreneurial spirit come together across an exceptional portfolio of luxury Maisons. As an employer, it offers a dynamic, international environment that values excellence, innovation, and the transmission of savoir-faire while encouraging each talent to contribute to the long-term desirability of its brands.

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