Senior Manager, Buying – Shoes

Senior Manager, Buying – Shoes

At CHANEL, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that supports individual growth and collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each person strengthens the diversity, complementarity, and effectiveness of our teams. We welcome your application and value the perspective, experience, and potential you could bring to CHANEL. 

• Bringing enthusiasm, energy, and an ability to inspire others around product, retail, and the CHANEL brand. 
• Combining a strong fashion aesthetic with a client-centered and commercially minded approach to product. 
• Using a highly analytical mindset to independently formulate hypotheses, interpret complex data, and draw actionable conclusions. 
• Collaborating across diverse cross-functional teams with a service-oriented mindset and the ability to build influential partnerships. 
• Demonstrating curiosity, intuition, drive, authenticity, and self-awareness. 
• Translating a deep understanding of client needs into clear team objectives and coordinated execution across business partners. 
• Learning and optimizing systems and processes; advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint is required, and Power BI experience is a plus. 
• Thriving in a dynamic, evolving environment with demonstrated initiative, strong prioritization skills, and a continuous-improvement mindset. 
• Engaging with clients and retail teams to understand and enhance the end-to-end client experience. 
• Maintaining genuine curiosity about the world around you and bringing an authentic, informed perspective to the role. 

• Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of three days in-person office presence at the designated location/office.
• Bachelor’s degree required. 
• Minimum of seven years of experience in buying or in a strategic and analytical merchandising role, with a demonstrated track record of driving business results. 
• Experience in fashion and/or luxury retail is preferred. 
• This position is based in the New York Home Office. 
• Ability to travel domestically for market enrichment, events, and boutique-opening support, as well as internationally for select collections. 

*Chanel, Inc. reserves the right to edit, change, or make exceptions on designations where circumstances where deemed appropriate.

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:

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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