SGD, P&O Core Corporate Functions

Senior Group Director HR Business Partner, Core Corporate Functions

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

CHANEL is looking for an HR Business Partner, Core Corporate Functions, to join our People & Organization team supporting Operations, Finance, Legal, and Regulatory Affairs. This role will play a leading role in shaping and delivering people strategies that enable these core corporate functions to perform at their best, while ensuring alignment with the broader Corporate P&O roadmap and global Corporate P&O strategy.

The HRBP is responsible for setting and executing the portfolio’s people priorities, stewarding progress, and reporting outcomes. As the dedicated P&O partner to these functions, the HRBP works autonomously and with authority, serving as the principal architect for workforce planning, operating model design, organizational health, talent development, succession and pipeline planning, and change implementation for the core corporate portfolio.

In this capacity, the HRBP leads the development and delivery of fit-for-purpose people strategies that anticipate business needs, address unique challenges, and drive measurable results for each supported function. While the HRBP collaborates and aligns closely with the Head of P&O, Corporate, and leverages COE expertise, they are directly accountable for the effectiveness of people strategies and outcomes within their portfolio.

What impact you can create at CHANEL:

• Own and drive the people and organization strategy for Operations, Finance, Legal, and Regulatory Affairs, ensuring each function’s people agenda is proactively shaped, implemented, and measured for impact.
• Set and steward the portfolio’s P&O roadmap, establishing priorities, defining outcomes and milestones, and reporting progress and impact to business leaders and the Head of P&O, Corporate.
• Translate global Corporate P&O strategies into the regional Core Corporate context, adapting enterprise philosophies into fit-for-purpose implementation plans.
• Lead organization and operating model design, workforce planning, and optimization to support agility, efficiency, and growth across Core Corporate Functions.
• Design and implement talent development, succession, and pipeline strategies for critical roles, ensuring each function has the right talent, in the right roles, at the right time.
• Serve as the orchestrator and business-unit interface for OD&E initiatives, including transformation programs, change management, culture evolution, and employee engagement efforts.
• Establish governance, measurement, and reporting rhythms to track progress, resolve impediments, and communicate impact.

You are energized by…

• Partnering with senior leaders to shape practical, business-led people strategies.
• Navigating complexity and ambiguity in a matrixed, evolving organization.
• Connecting workforce insights, talent priorities, organizational design, and change needs into an integrated plan.
• Collaborating across COEs, HRBP teams, PM pools, and business leaders to deliver high-quality outcomes.
• Building trust across geographically distributed teams and fostering connection across NJ and NYC locations.
• Using data and analytics to inform decisions, anticipate people implications, and measure impact.

What you will bring to the team...

• Significant experience as an HR Business Partner supporting corporate or enabling functions in a complex, matrixed organization.
• Demonstrated ability to operate as a strategic partner to senior leaders while maintaining operational rigor.
• Experience managing or partnering across multiple geographies, with a track record of building trust and presence at a distance.
• Proven ability to tailor partnership approaches in support of the Head of P&O-providing deep strategic partnership to leaders within business-driving functions, while ensuring effective stakeholder management and alignment for core corporate teams.
• Strong organizational design and operating model design capabilities, with a proven track record of optimizing for agility, efficiency, and growth.
• Strong evidence-based approach to decision making, leveraging Data & Analytics.
• Experience leading or partnering on workforce redesign for AI/human-machine collaboration initiatives.
• Proven ability to work within an operating model that leverages COEs and shared services, acting as an orchestrator rather than a generalist.
• Experience in luxury, retail, or creative industries preferred.
• A collaborative, resilient, and adaptable approach, with the ability to navigate ambiguity in an evolving operating model.
• Demonstrates leadership agility in adapting as learnings occur in the implementation of the new operating model.

Position Logistics:

• Position Title: HR Business Partner, Core Corporate Functions.
• Reports to: Head of People & Organization, Corporate.
• Minimum 15 years of experience
• This role is partially hybrid requiring 3 days a week in our New Jersey office

What skills you will learn? What experiences might you have?

• Deepen experience building people strategy across complex corporate functions.
• Gain exposure to enterprise-level organization design, workforce planning, and operating model transformation.
• Partner closely with senior business and P&O leaders on high-impact talent, succession, culture, and change priorities.
• Strengthen data-informed decision making and governance practices that connect people outcomes to business impact.

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.

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.

Career and Leadership Development

• We have dedicated in-house teams focused on supporting the onboarding of employees, developing leadership skills via custom programs, and offering blended online and live classes to support career building skills.

Compensation

• The anticipated base salary range for this position is $170,000 through $200,000K. Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other forms of variable pay may/will be offered for this position. Other components may/will include bonus potential, benefits, perks and other forms of variable pay.

Benefits and Perks

• Flexibility, including flexible time and hybrid work options.
• Wellbeing resources, including dedicated paid time off for wellbeing and a wellbeing fund.
• Family and caregiving benefits, generous paid time off policies, 401K and other incentives, and robust healthcare offerings.
• Life insurance, disability coverage, health advocacy, international business travel accident and medical coverage, and commuter transit and parking benefits.