Specialist, Permanent Merchandising – MPOS
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 a Specialist of Merchandising Coordination to join our Merchandising Point of Sale Team in New York. This role will support the Merchandising Strategy team to achieve flawless merchandising experiences at all Points of Sale in the U.S. Region. Reporting to the Specialist of Permanent Merchandising, this role will project manage all Point of Sale initiatives and support ongoing administrative and coordination needs. This role will collaborate cross-functionally with the broader Retail Store Environment team as well as internally with Production, Marketing, and Retail teams.
The Manager, Merchandising Coordination will have a direct impact on CHANEL’s image at point of sale for Fragrance and Beauty. This role will be integral to supporting merchandising initiatives and in-store experiences while also being a close collaborator with our production and marketing partners to support strategic goals.
What impact you can create at CHANEL:
- Project Management + Administrative Support: Provide project management support for all Retail Store Environment point of sale initiatives (merchandising roll-outs, open-sell updates, etc). Provide support through managing communication flow internally and externally. Assist in creating briefs, project timelines, and ensuring alignment during strategy kickoff meetings. Conduct weekly status meetings, assist with approvals and key deadlines, and overall organization of deliverables
- Job Requests and Production Briefs: Submit and manage Merchandising & Open Sell job requests and production briefs, including gathering global briefs, floorplans, photos, and final deliverables (approvals, shop drawings, specs, planograms). Create initial production briefs, item numbers, and follow through on quote requests, bids, and connecting with internal teams
- Merchandising and Inventory Management: Manage counter care, ensure guideline adherence, support Yoobic mission creation and catalog updates, maintain the monthly visual calendar, relocation sheet, and master item catalog. Assist with Open-sell updates and validate schematics
- System and Data Management: Maintain the project calendar, fulfill administrative requests via Smartsheet and Yoobic into Merch DB, support the update of the Display Catalog, and synchronize all systems
- Field Support & Communication: Manage RSE communication to field in coordination with Sales Ops for all project updates, Guidelines, launch brief, visual display calendars via teams, Field Comm, Yoobic and Inside Beauty. Oversee the ad-hoc requests, manage punch list orders and closeouts for merchandising initiatives and CAPEX projects
You are energized by:
- Showing fearless curiosity by being comfortable in complexity and ambiguity
- Displaying agility by showing personal flexibility and cultivate a growth mindset through resiliency
- Build collaborative relationships across the division and Field members
- Improve and maintain Chanel’s image at point of sale by being knowledgeable about the counter landscape and educating others
What you will bring to the team:
- Strong organizational and administrative capabilities, with proficiency in project management, creating workflows, and driving the implementation of project management tools
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to support team organization, processes, and file management.
- Displays learning agility and ability to creatively problem-solve in a fast-paced environment
- Able to process information quickly and draw conclusions
- Strong computer skills necessary: all Microsoft Office programs a must; Smartsheet a plus
Position Logistics:
- 3+ years of experience in project management, managing multiple projects with different scope/size
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of three days in-person office presence at the designated location/office
*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 $60,500 through $90,000. 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:
- Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing: 2-week August Office Closure 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 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.
- 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.
