Group Director, F&B Strategy and Distribution

Group Director, F&B Strategy and Distribution

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: 

The Group Director of F&B Strategy & Distribution plays a key role in developing long-term strategies for our business model as well as measuring key KPIs of current strategies. This role is part of the F&B Strategy & Business Development Team which is a divisional team missioned to provide strategic direction, structure, analysis and business insights in support of achieving our overarching objectives, through its strengths in Financial and Data Analysis, Market Insights, Governance, Account Development and cross divisional connection and consolidation.

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

This role plays a critical part in developing future strategies and can have a large impact on daily leadership decision making. You will be an internal consultant for the Division to deep-dive into some of our biggest strategic questions around business models, distribution and client experience.

• Annually analyze the size of the US F&B market and project future growth using external sources and financial reporting. Analyze US market performance and outlook vs Chanel business
• Build out frameworks and models to support long-term strategic distribution related projects
• Lead the publishing of key insights and takeaways on the analysis of Chanel’s distribution performance through collaborate with Account Development, Retail Corporate teams, and Digital, supporting the publishing of key insights and takeaways 
• Stay abreast of and apply insights from key economic indicators, relevant industry news and consumer behavior trends
• Analyze external and internal business environment along with current business status to strategically identify critical issues and opportunities
• Provide actionable distribution, client, market insights alongside strategy recommendations to business partners
• Support the development of materials / presentations for key priority work and presentations (Budget Alignment, 3Yr Plan (MTP), and Country Review)
• Execute ad hoc analysis supporting key strategic questions for the Division

You are energized by…

Driving business development and connecting the dots between internal and external factors that impact growth and brand equity. You can easily navigate between details and data to very high-level visionary thinking and an aptitude in crafting the business ‘story’. You enjoy working independently but naturally drive collaboration and build relationships. You are comfortable interacting with senior leadership and functioning in a high paced environment where priorities and deadlines may change, requiring focus, agility and attention to detail.

What you will bring to the team...

• Experience in financial modeling, forecasting and sales planning
• Experience in data governance and collaborating with tech teams, to translate business needs into automated reporting
• Strong expertise in preparing reports and presentations for leadership teams
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex concepts and data analysis clearly to diverse audiences
• Strong blend of analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to drive results and manage multiple priorities
• Proven ability to glean insights and patterns from large data sets, synthesize and story tell through visualization
• Actively solves complicated issues by analyzing situations and developing project plans that achieve goals in creative and effective ways
• Big picture thinking with an aptitude for bringing together multiple knowledge sources and a broad skill set to develop strategic objectives
• Open to new ideas and actively builds networks to achieve goal
• Independent and self-motivated working style, ability to take feedback and input from multiple leaders in a matrixed organization

Position Logistics:

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or advanced degree preferred
• Minimum 10 years of experience. Candidates with prior retail or fragrance and beauty industry experience and/or consulting, strategic finance, investment banking preferred
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office programs (Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Power BI), Tableau experience is a plus
• Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of three da