Senior Manager, West Coast, Style Development

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 Job

CHANEL is looking for a Senior Manager on the West Coast to join our Style Expertise Team. You will play a leading role in upskilling targeted Fashion Advisors and fostering partnership across the Fashion Division. This role interfaces with Retail, Education, Visual Merchandising and Merchandising and is a key partner for the Education, Boutique and Merchandising teams. Our ideal candidate will have 6-8 years of experience and a passion for educating Retail, Merchandising, and creating strategic synergies.

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

• You will play a key role in Style Expertise development on the West Coast
• Develop and host trainings for Style Ambassadors both in boutique as well as remotely
• You will travel to relevant boutiques to host in person trainings, support trainings with Style content, and identify potential talent
• Track Retail population engagement on digital platforms and leverage feedback to improve content
• Partner internally with Product Merchandising and Education, as well as with global Style Expertise to communicate compelling product information centered around Style
• Track program efficacy through KPIs and analyze data to form perspective that will determine next steps
• Develop strong partnerships with internal departments: Boutique leaders and teams, Product Merchandising, Education, Visual Merchandising, Client Analytics, Strategy
• Actively follow the industry and seasonal trends, while also having a strong pulse on the competitive market
• Create seamless and coherent synergy between Style Expertise, Visual Merchandising and Product Merchandising

You are energized by

• Discovering new product and communicating key messages each collection
• Collaborating with Retail and Merchandising to drive synergies around product
• Testing creative ideas and continually innovating until refined
• Transforming creative theories into practice, and training on how to do so
• Developing a deep understanding of the CHANEL client and how Style impacts their journey with us

What you will bring to the team

• Deep knowledge of product merchandising strategy and implementation in Retail
• A passion for leveraging data to impact the luxury retail experience
• Experience training tenured members of Retail

Position Logistics:

• Minimum 6 years of experience
• Remote role based in California with travel to boutiques
• Up 25% travel domestic and international

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $85,000-120,000 Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other components [may/will] include additional compensation, benefits and perks.

Chanel is a private company whose values are grounded in creating the conditions for people to perform at their best and feel fulfilled and confident in their work. We offer a unique work environment where individuals are encouraged to better understand the brand, the business, and motivations, so that together we can unlock the possibilities of growth. This is reflected in:

Diversity and Inclusion

• At CHANEL, we are intentional in promoting Diversity & Inclusion. We foster respect, empathy and dignity for all. We believe strongly that the diversity of our people across the full spectrum of human differences is essential to our organisation and the connections we have with each other and our clients.
• We offer Employee Resource Groups in the US that are voluntary, open to all, employee-led groups formed around a shared identity or lived experience, whose aim is to foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community aligned with the values and missions of the communities they support.

Chanel Community

• CHANEL Community empowers our employees to channel their passions, talents and sense of purpose to contribute to and learn from our communities.
• Employees are encouraged to take time off annually to volunteer through CHANEL Community. CHANEL also matches employee donations to select charitable organizations.

Fondation Chanel

• Since 2011, Fondation CHANEL's mission is for women and girls to be free to shape their own destiny. Through multi-year partnerships with financial and technical support, Fondation CHANEL is committed to improving the safety and autonomy of women and adolescent girls around the world, impacting over a million women and girls in its first 10 years.
• For more information, please navigate to the Fondation Chanel website here

Sustainability

• CHANEL Mission 1.5° is our climate action plan. It is focused on transforming the business in line with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement on climate change to limit the average global mean temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
• Employees are encouraged to contribute to our US Sustainability efforts at the corporate level and within the divisions, through organized taskforces and initiatives.

Arts and Culture

• We are committed to extending our legacy of cultural engagement. Global support includes the CHANEL Culture Fund, which supports a select group of leading art culture institutions across the globe, and the CHANEL Next Prize for the next generation of creative talent. US support currently includes Annual sponsorship of the MoMA film program, Tribeca Film Festival programs and Through Her Lens, Support of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women and Sponsorship of the BAAND Together Dance Festival at Lincoln Center.

Career and Leadership Development:

• We have dedicated in-house teams focused on supporting the onboarding of employees, developing leadership skills via custom programs like Imagine Chanel People, Heart of Leadership and group and individual coaching, and blended online and live classes offered on our Bloom platform and by skilled trainers, such as Shape Your Career, to develop career building skills.

Compensation

• Base salary, bonus potential and other forms of variable pay [may/will be] offered for this position

Benefits and Perks

• Flexibility (flexible time and hybrid work options)
• Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing (2-week August Office Closure and Wellbeing Days in Retail) and a Wellbeing fund
• Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership)
• Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days
• 401K, pension and other incentives

• Robust healthcare offerings; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE (virtual care), One Medical, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), Health Savings Account and Employee Assistance Program
• Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking

*Chanel, Inc. benefits and perks are dependent on eligibility and subject to modification by Chanel at any time.