Manager, Fragrance & Beauty Strategy and Financial 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

The Manager of Fragrance & Beauty (F&B) Strategy and Performance plays a key role in providing insights into the performance of our business, priorities & investment decisions in the F&B Division. This role is part of the Performance Management & Analysis Team which supports the Division in Internal and External data analysis, reporting and presentation, Project Management and Process Improvement, specifically focusing on Key Divisional Priorities.

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

This role consolidates, connects and synthesizes data to create clarity in both the planning of our priorities and the performance of our many business models. Your contributions will ensure that important insights by business model, retailer, product, and priority are being elevated so that the Division is asking the right questions, setting the right strategies, and making the right investments.

You are energized by:

Learning the CHANEL fragrance & beauty business inside and out. What strategies and initiatives are working, and which ones are not. You will understand and be able to speak to our plans and performance across product categories and investment types, both at point of sale and online. You will have the freedom to follow your curiosity allowing you to connect the dots and story-tell through facts & data. This is a highly collaborative role with high visibility, and you are comfortable in a fast-paced environment where priorities and deadlines may change, requiring focus and agility.

What you will bring to the team:

• Investment Analysis: Develop and manage key F&B investment consolidation to provide visibility, reporting, visualization, and analysis by strategy, initiative, spend type and product line
• Business Update: Develop and manage on-going high-level reporting on business performance (by brand, by retailer, by channel), elevating key KPIs and business nuances, manage business update slides for Divisional presentations and meetings (ie. Month end reporting pack, contributor to Business Update in Power BI)
• Distribution Analysis: Measure retailer & market performance and evolution over time, understanding the role of each to the greater business strategy
• F&B Priorities: Collaborate with and support cross functional teams to identify measurable KPI’s for divisional priorities, may contribute directly to priority performance through on-going analytics (ie. by door performance, by door product penetrations, etc.)
• Performance Analysis: Support synthesizing and consolidating performance metrics, providing takeaways and actionable insights based on facts and results to business partners
• Regularly execute ad hoc analyses supporting key strategic questions for the Division (ie. Pulling and manipulating data from Power BI, SAP feeds and Cognos)
• Develop, consistently update and reconcile templates so that data is accessible, streamlined, and easily leveraged across teams
• Support the development of presentation materials and decks for key priority work and meetings (ie. Monthly Business Review meetings, Quarterly budget cycles, 3 Year Plan (MTP), Deauville and Country Review)
• Support long-term strategic distribution related projects

Position Logistics:

• Minimum 5 years professional experience, analytic experience required
• Strong blend of analytical, communication and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated strength in communication and influencing skills; verbal and written with the ability to clearly & aesthetically summarize information
• Advanced Excel & data modeling skills (vlookup, index/match, pivot tables, charts etc.) and Power Point skills (expert formatting, animation, slide master formatting, embedding charts/graphs, etc.)
• Comfortability with large data sets and the ability to both synthesize and catch minor details and inconsistencies
• Basic understanding of database organization & data flow architecture
• Open to new ideas and actively builds networks to achieve goals
• Self-motivated, results-oriented, strategic thinker
• Comfortable working with ambiguity
• Strong time management and prioritization skills

Compensation

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $ 63,400 through $105,000. Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other components [may/will] include additional compensation, benefits, and perks.

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

Additional Information

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.

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.

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

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.

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