Manager, Fashion Strategy

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:

Driven by a curious and collaborative spirit, the Fashion Strategy team unifies and guides teams in the formulation and execution of key strategies and initiatives, nourishes the organization with an understanding of internal and external dynamics, and synthesizes the activities and objectives of the division through rich storytelling. This role is uniquely positioned to support the team with strategic analysis and communication to leadership and teams across the division. With the cross-functional nature of this position you will play a key role in helping to build strong relationships with a broad range of teams across the organization and unifying the objectives across projects. The role will report into the Senior Group Director, Fashion Strategy.

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

• You will foster relationships and act as a strategic thought partner to key teams across and beyond the Fashion Division including Merchandising/Planning, Distribution Strategy, Client Analytics, Client Engagement, Client Experience, Operations, Retail, Insights, BI, Client Care and Fashion leadership
• You will contribute to the process of analyzing and action planning approaches to strategic questions and projects that have impacts across the Fashion Division
• You will engage in strategic thinking, analysis, and storytelling in the communication of the Fashion Division’s strategic priorities, projects, and questions, in addition to providing context to the overall US landscape to a Global audience through the orchestration and creation of regular strategic decks (MTP Alignment, Budget, Country Review)
• You will manage and participate in presentations of strategic decks to select US leadership
• You will oversee management of the Fashion Total View Power BI dashboard as the key tool for business analysis and reporting through partnership with Business Intelligence team and key users
• You will communicate the key stories behind the business performance to the Fashion division through regular and ad-hoc analysis and reporting. You will partner with key teams to ensure data accuracy and highlight a storyline by identifying the key business drivers
• You will highlight key data points to contribute to preparation of leadership for key meetings
• You will actively monitor emerging and ongoing trends and news within the industry and recommend areas for deeper analysis to publish Industry News overviews to the Fashion division and corporate teams

What you will bring to the team:

• An innate curiosity, intuition, drive, & authenticity
• Clarity of communication with complex concepts and ideas
• Strong storytelling skills – leveraging data to share concepts within a powerpoint deck
• Ability to connect the dots between deep strategic analysis and key conclusions in order to influence decision making
• Ability to identify and drive opportunities for cross-collaboration and efficiencies
• Interest in sharing, exploring and building on ideas that challenge status quo
• Strength in juggling multiple projects at once, decisively prioritizing to achieve optimal outputs
• Enjoyment of working in a highly collaborative environment
• Collaboration with passionate teammates and forming relationships with diverse roles and teams to enrich your work
• Ability to analyze quantitative trends to identify and communicate key business stories, while also having a desire to make the information beautiful
• Capability to expertly navigate ambiguity and complexity to drive transformation and change
• Desire to constantly sharpen your analytical mind
• Adaptability in presenting information to different levels of audiences

Position logistics:

• Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of three days in-person office presence at the designated location/office.
• Minimum 5 years professional experience
• Bachelor's Degree Required
• Advanced skills in Excel (pivot tables, index match, vlookup) and Powerpoint (master formatting, charts, animation, visual identity)

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Compensation:

• The anticipated base salary range for this position is $63,400 – $110,000. Base salary i