what you can bring into the team
Job Purpose:
- To assist Senior Sustainability Manager with the design, implementation and monitoring of China sustainability roadmap, in close collaboration with different stakeholders from both internal and external.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Project Management & Governance
- Own end-to-end project management for key local sustainability initiatives across all ESG pillars. Ensure on-time, on-budget and high-quality delivery by rigorously managing scope, timeline and resources.
- Drive project transparency through proactive communication, regular dashboard updates, and robust monitoring and verification. Employ a data-driven approach to develop internal sustainability communication and insights.
- Continuously assess project context, identify resource/capability gaps, and adapt plans to ensure priority projects are executed ready.
- Evaluate market nuances, change impacts, and interdependencies across initiatives with a holistic lens, directly contributing to the acceleration of Chanel China’s sustainability roadmap.
- Foster strong cross-functional collaboration to identify sustainability opportunities and conduct comprehensive business process assessments.
Sustainability Culture & Engagement
- Cultivate and energize the internal Sustainability Community (e.g. Council, Retail ambassadors) through hybrid formats.
- Strategically lead internal sustainability programs, including workshops, seminars, and impactful activities.
- Oversee internal sustainability communications across multiple channels (e.g. newsletters, internal platforms) to inspire awareness and action.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to drive sustainability learning initiatives, such as Climate Fresk workshop and local learning platform/content.
Sustainability Intelligence & Ecosystem Building
- Monitor and analyze evolving global and local sustainability/ESG policies, regulations, trends and best practices to inform strategy.
- Build and leverage a local network with industrial associations, technical consultants, social organizations, charity partners, academic professionals, governmental entities, etc.
Person Specifications:
Academic / Professional Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Sustainability, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Economics, Business Administration, or a related field that combines technical and economic disciplines. A master's degree is a plus.
- Solid understanding of key ESG concepts, including GHG accounting (Scope 1, 2, 3), decarbonization technologies, global reporting frameworks (ISSB, CSRD, TCFD, GRI, SASB), circularity framework, value chain human right, community engagement, etc.
Work Experience
- 7+ years of professional experience in sustainability and/or related fields, a combination of both corporate in-house experience and consulting experience will be a plus
- Demonstrated success in building consensus, facilitating cross-departmental collaboration, and ability to engage, influence and communicate complex sustainability concepts clearly across multiple levels.
Required Competencies
- Excellent spoken and written communication skills (English and Mandarin)
- Excellent logical thinking, strong numerical sensitivity, solution driven.
- Effective presentation capabilities across a broad range of organizations and management levels
- Strong teamwork and relationship building skills, proactive team player, ability to listen to and consider other points of view, working cross-functionally
- Strong strategic thinking and structured problem solving; able to move from insight to actions with proven success leading cross-functional projects in a matrix environment
- Strong project management skills
- Organized self-starter capable of managing multiple tasks simultaneously
- Quick and active learner, self-motivated and independent ability to take initiatives in different networks
- Ethical, highest level of professional integrity
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What We Do
CHANEL is a private company and a world leader in creating, developing, manufacturing and distributing luxury products. Founded by Gabrielle Chanel at the beginning of the last century, CHANEL offers a broad range of high-end creations, including Ready-to-Wear, Leather Goods, Fashion Accessories, Eyewear, Fragrances, Makeup, Skincare, Jewelry and Watches. CHANEL is also renowned for its Haute Couture collections, presented twice yearly in Paris, and for having acquired a large number of specialized suppliers, collectively known as the Métiers d’Art. CHANEL is dedicated to ultimate luxury and to the highest level of craftsmanship. It is a brand whose core values remain historically grounded on exceptional creation. As such, CHANEL promotes culture, art, creativity and “savoir-faire” throughout the world, and invests significantly in people, R&D and innovation. At the end of 2019, CHANEL employed more than 28,000 people across the world.
