Senior Group Director, ESG 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:
Successful organizations seek to thrive over the long term in a world that is uncertain, and complex. Risks that a decade ago weren’t seen as a noteworthy threat to business, such as extreme weather events, water crises and failure of climate change mitigation and adaptation are now cause for change. Developing a strategic response to these issues, mitigating the risks, and seizing opportunities arising from an effective response, should be at the front and center for every organization.
Finance is a strong business partner with Sustainability and needs to ensure these issues are addressed in an integrated manner within strategic planning, and followed through with aligned budgeting, forecasting, and streamlined reporting. Integration and alignment together as a core arm for our Head of Sustainability are key to the creation of a resilient future. And as such, the finance team plays a crucial role here. They ensure strategies are costed, financial resources are allocated, and performance is monitored. Finance teams can also prove that the strategy itself drives sustainable long-term value.
And this is underpinned by the availability and robustness of relevant data. High quality data that is important to the strategy must be used in the formulation of the plan, not simply as a statistic in reporting.
What impact you can create at CHANEL:
The individual is expected to drive ESG Performance, establishment, implementation and continuous improvement and innovation through process standardization.
ESG performance and support to sustainability team (including proposal for tools enhancement to track KPIs)
- Coordinate and lead the US region on Total Value Tool Reporting, bringing relevant stakeholders together and reporting/sharing results
- Review scope 1, 2, & 3 emissions, track project impacts, and develop KPIs for enhanced monitoring
- Analysis and drive business insight on carbon emission tracking, act as subject matter expert and ultimate US approver on Global data submission
- Coordinate the Audit process between Global Sustainability team
- Prepare gap analysis and mitigation plans with the Head of Sustainability
- Identifying sustainability success factor, opportunities, and risks, and enabling integrated strategies and thru conducting financial analysis and due diligence for sustainability projects
- Work with the Corporate team on adapting methodologies and data gathering to move towards more activity-based reporting on carbon emissions, ensuring these are appropriate and realistic for the local teams and will ensure actions and progress can be reflected in the data (e.g. Events, Capital Goods)
Sustainability in Business decisions and link with Finance (impact of investments, etc)
- Lead the development of effective Finance ESG Framework on governance, KPI and metrics in collaboration with Global for all investment decision. Ensure cross functional involvement, change management, training and ownership of the objectives are agreed, achieved.
- Work with Indirect Procurement and Integrated Risk Management in identifying and understand ESG Risk for CHANEL from Finance Risk and Governance perspective and work with Global and Head of Sustainability to drive awareness, discussion and action to contain or mitigate risk
- Coordinate implementation of new policies related to ESG considerations & work collaboratively to develop guidelines for Opex and Capex budgeting with KPI that include short- and long-term sustainability factors
Sustainability external reporting obligations
- Lead the US implementation of Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. This includes adopting new tool to be selected for reporting, design sustainable processes for reporting, documentation of processes and internal controls
- Engaging with global/regional/locals’ teams to align on long-term strategy and consolidate net zero carbon spend and emissions and other ESG area to support future Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive
- Design sustainable processes for reporting, documentation of processes and internal controls
- Provide insights on the prospective reporting requirements developing across the US to relevant stakeholders (Sustainability, Legal, Finance, and business)
- Consider changing landscape of sustainability and ensure compliance with all reporting obligations required from customers, vendors, third parties, or agencies
Training and stakeholder engagement
- Serve as subject matter expert on Finance ESG and drive awareness within department and across the organization and help to build capabilities
- Partner with People & Organization Team to be a data steward for people information to drive the requirements for Social reporting and KPIs
Tools & Systems
- Define and build the required technology, systems and data capability to support the collation of more robust sustainability information
- Work closely with IT to propose enhancements to existing systems and integrations to help the analysis and reporting of current data
- Work on data governance to improve data quality of sources identified as relevant for CSRD reporting
- Core team member on adhoc projects such as Energy Management Software, Scoring system for events, T&E carbon reporting, CAPEX
- Manage the future carbon modelling tool to track progress and the trajectory of decarbonization projects against the US targets to reach net zero
You are energized by:
Respected and enthusiastic leader: Draws others into enthusiastic commitment to the collective effort. Has a direction, energy, and passion. Shapes the environment to foster a drive toward business partnership, learning, achievement, and teamwork. Models behavior.
- Displays integrity and builds trust
- Self-aware and assertive
- Optimistic and perseveres
- Living in culture diversity
Broad/strategic thinker & Influencer: Identifies the implications of macro trends for the business. Can identify potential problems and opportunities both in the short and long term. Is able to identify critical concerns and prioritize
Can strongly influence, coach and partner with leaders, ability to drive the collective execution of strategy.
- Anticipates disruptions
- Seeks continual learning and is open-minded & agile
- Focuses on shaping the future collectively
- Unleashes innovation & empowers people
- Sense of purpose
- Looks inside and out for perspective and partnerships
- Navigates ambiguity and complexity
Develop people: Inspires others to exceed expectations, Sets high standards. Sets challenging & complex yet attainable goals. Takes calculated risks.
- Strong communicator
- Persuasive and engaging
- Genuinely interested in developing others
- Works cooperatively & collaboratively with peers, management, subordinates transversally
- Seeks personal improvement and adapts behavior to feedback and experience
- Empowers others through creating conditions for continual growth
Leveraging Innovation: Being at the forefront in nurturing the brand and managing our businesses
- A thought leader by leveraging the vision and challenging the status quo
- Demonstrates open mindedness, curiosity and intuition
- Creates solutions for awareness, inspiration and learning
- Generates and stimulates creative ideas, solutions and opportunities
- Creates value by seeking out new ways to apply innovative ideas
What you will bring to the team:
- Minimum 9 years working experience, inclusive of 3 years of managerial experience
- Solid expertise / operational know-how of insurance
- Bachelors degree in finance, business, sustainability, or a related field. Advanced degrees (MBA, CPA, CFA, etc) are a plus
- Proven experience in finance, risk management, or related fields with a focus on ESG and integration
- In-dept knowledge of ESG principles, sustainable finance instruments, and relevant reporting frameworks (e.g., CSRD, Net Zero, SASB)
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to assess the financial impact of ESG factors
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for engaging with internal and external stakeholders
- Familiarity with relevant regulatory requirements and developing industry standards related to ESG. Able to articulate and possess demonstrated leadership capabilities
- Strong interpersonal effectiveness, positive and passion for result/achievement
- Effective in identifying optimization options and balancing trade-offs
- Strong hands-on management and execution excellence
- Demonstrated project management skills
- Excellent analytical and creative problem-solving skills
- Ability to see both the big picture and the details
- Knowledge of and ability to design, apply and evaluate new process, risk in business environments in order to improve risk management
- Highly self-motivated and directed
- Strong customer service orientation
Position Logistics:
- Hybrid, 3-day work week schedule
- Piscataway, NJ based role
- Occasional Travel required
- Chanel, Inc. reserves the right to edit, change, or make exceptions on designations where circumstances where deemed appropriate.
Compensation:
- The anticipated base salary range for this position is $166,000-$200,000. 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, and/or 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 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 CHANELs 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.