Manager, Eyewear Jobs

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 a leader in the luxury goods industry is looking for a Manager to join our Eyewear Team in New York City. The Manager is responsible for supporting the Eyewear Team across various business initiatives within buying, planning, distribution and training workstreams. The ideal candidate will have 3+ years of experience and a passion for business, product, and the evolving state of retail.

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

Sales & Distribution:

• Help with preparing content and/or analysis for Business Review Meetings, and follow up on action items resulting from meetings
• Forge relationships with key internal departments to champion category exposure and see initiatives through to completion
• Actively follow industry and seasonal trends to maintain a strong pulse on the competitive market
• Help drive innovation by identifying opportunities for efficiencies in our ways of working; play key support role in Eyewear Dashboard development
• Take ownership of business-critical files and databases, ensuring data is accurate, updated and organized
• Manage wholesale business initiatives, tracking progress and results
• Responsible for creating, analyzing, and delivering holistic business reporting, supporting in identifying key insights
• Cultivate relationships with Eyewear Ambassador community and promote category engagement amongst our retail teams

Buying & Inventory Planning

• Manage the pricing process for new and core product
• Execute ongoing assortment, price, and location analysis, identifying actionable business insights
• Monitor shipping, tracking delivery timing and cancellations, and proactively share findings and recommended actions
• Play an active role in the overall buying process and inventory lifecycle for Chanel Fashion and Lease Boutiques
• Support in creating and implementing strategic initiatives to drive the business across seasonal and core collection
• Participate in determining the product assortment during each market (up to 6x per year) for Chanel Fashion and Lease Boutiques, and collaborate closely with boutiques to tailor the assortment based on client and market insights

Training

• Partner with Fashion education team on training opportunities to incorporate Eyewear
• Support in the planning and execution of Eyewear training moments including collection trainings and ad-hoc opportunities for owned retail and internal teams
• Tailor training content to ensure market and audience relevance
• Coordinate wholesale training moments, and deliver branded content as needed

You are energized by…

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams with a service mindset and building strong partnerships
• Strong written, presentation and verbal communication skills
• Attention to detail and ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Having a strong analytical mindset and exhibiting retail math skills; you are comfortable drawing conclusions from data
• Expressing curiosity, intuition, drive, authenticity, and self-awareness
• Exuding enthusiasm, energy, and an ability to inspire others about retail and product
• Possessing advanced Excel skills and Power Point skills
• Proactivity, agility, and resiliency – comfortable with complexity and ambiguity

What You Will Bring To The Team...

• Thinking outside the box, bringing forth creative solutions
• Proactive, driven individual who has a collaborative spirit working with cross functional teams
• Positive team-player mindset; willingness to pitch in
• Confidence in sharing their point of view and new perspectives

Position Logistics:

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, must have strong working knowledge of Excel and Powerpoint
• Minimum 5 years in an analytical role with demonstrated results in impacting business; buying-related experience a plus
• Bachelor’s degree required 
• Position is NY-based and will follow a hybrid schedule

The anticipated base salary range for this position is $64,200 through $110,000. 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

• 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.
• 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.

Chanel Community

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

Sustainability

• Employees are encouraged to contribute to our US Sustainability efforts at the corporate level and within the divisions, through organized taskforces and initiatives.
• 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.

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

• For more information, please navigate to the Fondation Chanel website here
• 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.   

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

• Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days
• Flexibility (flexible time and hybrid work options)
• Chanel, Inc. benefits and perks are dependent on eligibility and subject to modification by Chanel at any time.
• 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
• Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership)
• 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