Group Director, Talent Projects

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

The Open Innovation team is a future-forward innovation ecosystem for CHANEL. Operating at the intersection of the organization and the wider world, we envision the road ahead for luxury and for CHANEL, fast-tracking potential responses through our network of investments and partnerships. We pressure-test these ideas through real-world experimentation, enabling the House to create positive impact from leading-edge learnings and capabilities and to prepare its businesses for the future.

About The Job

The Group Director, Talent Projects is an organization development consulting role and will be responsible for initiating, planning, executing, and creating everything necessary to design, hire, onboard, develop, reward, motivate, engage and retain high performing teams across the Open Innovation function. Operating as both a partner to the business and an HR consultant and project manager, key stakeholders include all team members and leaders within the Open Innovation team, members of the global and regional People & Organization teams as well as global and local legal, finance and other corporate teams. This role sits directly within the Open Innovation team and reports to the Head of Organization & People, Global Corporate US, working with teams based primarily in New York, London, Luxembourg and potentially other global locations over time.

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

Ultimately, this role is responsible for designing, measuring and iterating on the full scope of people-related touchpoints for the Open Innovation team, in order to create a world-class organization and People Experience, while experimenting to find out what it is possible to achieve in the people space. This position will identify, manage and liaise with external and internal resources in order to set and execute the goals and milestones of various talent projects, from designing new structures to delivering programs to executing processes to bring these projects to life. You must deeply understand the underlying experience principles of the team and ensure that all actions taken adhere to original intent of the project, the values of the company, compliance requirements and expected business results.

You are energized by

• Helping to build an exceptional Open Innovation team, leveraging innovative approaches to talent attraction, working with recruiting experts to find talents and hiring & integrating talents within the UK and US markets as well as other locations
• Creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, psychological safety and corporate responsibility, contributing to collective engagement, retention and developmental progress
• This will include implementing a systematic and strategic approach to designing and bringing to life the full scope of employee touchpoints, from recruiting, hiring, onboarding, talent management, development, leadership, reward, performance, engagement and retention – including running pilots and experiments in this area, measuring outcomes and leading constant iteration.
• Designing, planning and executing a comprehensive strategic and operational framework for the full scope of employment for Open Innovation teams, project-managing and operationally delivering each aspect along the way
• Synthesizing academic, internal and external research on innovative talent strategies, in order to apply new and creative recommendations to organizational concepts and people frameworks
• Identifying and managing external resources and people-related vendor partnerships to develop tools, templates, collateral, learning platforms, videos and other materials
• With support from the Head of Organization & People, Global Corporate US, manage relationships and communication with key members of local operational teams on process, compliance, systems, etc., to include socialization of logistics/approach with stakeholders

What You Will Bring To The Team

• Sensitivity working across locations and cultures, and experience working in or with the UK market as well as the US, understanding local specificities and regulations
• Alignment with responsible employer values and ability to operationally bring to life
• Innovative and creative mindset to push boundaries and explore new ideas, balanced with knowledge and judgement around compliance as well as the ability to project-manage, execute and ensure seamless delivery of creative ideas
• Technical abilities to include leveraging Workday, Office 365 daily as well as ability to fluently learn and navigate new systems and technologies
• Strong communication skills across all formats, excellent relationship building skills, as well as the ability to influence and assess situations objectively with EQ
• Background in organizational development, organization design, human capital management or related consulting, ideally with both firm and internal company experience

WHAT SKILLS WILL YOU LEARN, WHAT EXPERIENCES MIGHT YOU HAVE

With a small client group comprised of multiple global locations and functions, you will have the chance to be deeply embedded directly in a dynamic innovation team, while also benefiting from the guidance and perspective of a strong global community of HR professionals. You will connect with local colleagues as well as partners across the world. This role allows for a mix of building long-term relationships with business partners as well as managing discrete projects with clear timelines. You will have the opportunity to design and implement people projects from start to finish, managing change and people implications along the way, as well as being hands-on with operational delivery to bring the team’s mission and organization to life. You will be challenged to constantly seek new perspectives, trends and ideas from the outside and then to apply your learnings in a real-world internal environment, generating learnings and/or new ways of working that can be scaled or further leveraged by the company.

Position logistics

• Bachelor’s degree required
• Experience in a consulting capacity working across multiple industries is preferred, as is management/leadership experience
• Ability to attend occasional early morning or evening meetings with colleagues in other time zones
• 7+ years of experience in organizational development, organization design, human capital management or related consulting or a closely related function, ideally with a focus on innovation and the future of work
• Ability to be in the office 3 days per week in midtown NYC, with occasional domestic and international travel (up to a few times per year)
• HR business partnership experience is preferred

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $133,900 through $160,340. Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other components 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.

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 will be offered for this position

Benefits And Perks

• Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking
• 401K, pension, and other incentives
• Chanel, Inc. benefits and perks are dependent on eligibility and subject to modification by Chanel at any time.
• Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, Milk Stork, and Care.com Membership)
• 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
• Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing (2-week August Office Closure and Wellbeing Days in Retail) and a Wellbeing fund
• Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days
• Flexibility (flexible time and hybrid work options)