Senior Group Director – ESG Performance US

Senior Group Director, ESG Performance

At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL.

About the Role:

Successful organizations seek to thrive over the long term in a world that is volatile, uncertain, and complex. Risks that a decade ago weren't seen as a noteworthy threat to business, such as extreme weather events, water crises and failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation are now starting to become real fears.  Developing a strategic response to these issues, mitigating the risks, and seizing opportunities arising from an effective response, should be at the front and center for every organization.

Finance is a strong business partner with Sustainability and needs to ensure these issues are addressed in an integrated manner within strategic planning, and followed through with aligned budgeting, forecasting, and streamlined reporting. Integration and alignment together as a core arm for our Head of Sustainability are key to the creation of a resilient future. And as such, the finance team plays a crucial role here. They ensure strategies are costed, financial resources are allocated, and performance is monitored. Finance teams can also prove that the strategy itself drives sustainable long-term value.

And this is underpinned by the availability and robustness of relevant data. High quality data that is important to the strategy must be used in the formulation of the plan, not simply as a statistic in reporting.

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

The incumbent is expected to drive ESG Performance, establishment, implementation and continuous improvement and innovation through process standardization.

ESG performance and support to sustainability team (including proposal for tools enhancement to track KPIs)

• Coordinate and lead the US region on Total Value Tool Reporting, bringing relevant stakeholders together and reporting/sharing results
• Ability to build relationships and work with various stakeholders across the organization to understand their current reporting context
• Partner and work closely with local Sustainability team and global team to analyze, review and enhance scope 1, 2, & 3 emissions reporting, and develop processes to regularly report on KPIs for enhanced monitoring
• Coordinate the Audit process between Global Sustainability team
• Prepare gap analysis and mitigation plans with the Head of Sustainability and business/department owners
• Identifying sustainability success factor, opportunities, and risks, and enabling integrated strategies and thru conducting financial analysis and due diligence for sustainability projects
• Work with the Corporate team on adapting methodologies and data gathering to move towards more activity-based reporting on carbon emissions, ensuring these are appropriate and realistic for the local teams and will ensure actions and progress can be reflected in the data (e.g. Events, Capital Goods)

Sustainability in Business decisions and link with Finance (impact of investments, etc)

• Lead the development of effective Finance ESG Framework on governance, KPI and metrics in collaboration with Global for all investment decision. Ensure cross functional involvement, change management, training and ownership of the objectives are agreed, achieved
• Work with Indirect Procurement and Integrated Risk Management in identifying and understand ESG Risk for CHANEL from Finance Risk and Governance perspective and work with Global and Head of Sustainability to drive awareness, discussion and action to contain or mitigate risk
• Coordinate implementation of new policies related to ESG considerations & work collaboratively to develop guidelines for Opex and Capex budgeting with KPI that include short- and long-term sustainability factors
• Ability to be comfortable working with financial data from various reporting systems (general ledger, indirect procurement taxonomy, sub-systems)
• Innate curiosity around the organization and how it operates

Sustainability external reporting obligations

• Co-lead the US implementation of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive in collaboration with Sustainability and global teams.  This includes adopting new tool to be selected for reporting, design sustainable processes for reporting, documentation of processes and internal controls
• Engaging with global/regi