Position Overview & Specifications
FASHION VIC COORDINATOR
Location: CHANEL Head office, London
Reports to: VIC Development Manager
Contract: Permanent, Full Time
Your role @CHANEL:
CHANEL is looking for a Fashion VIC Coordinator to join our London Head Office Team. In this role you will partner closely with the VIC Development Manager and play a leading role focussing on the seamless execution of best-in-class CHANEL top client experiences and engaging with teams at all levels and departments across the organization.
Our ideal candidate will have a proven track record of exceptionally strong organization and attention to detail, an understanding of luxury service and product, and a passion for problem solving with a client-centric approach (preferably within a VIC/ Events/ PR/ Hospitality).
What impact you can create at Chanel:
- Coordinate and organize top client events both domestically and internationally.
- Be a strong partner to a network of Boutique client relations teams and work with this network to educate on VIC programme fundamentals and engagement approach.
- Steward top client details and data with discretion to ensure personalized, detailed, and exceptionally executed client experiences.
- Help to refine, manage, and evolve internal team processes and improve efficiencies in working with cross functional partners.
- Be a strong support for team Manager on organizational elements of team’s focus and coordination of top priorities.
- Understand the retail environment/landscape intimately and be able to dynamically adapt to the needs of our boutique teams in times of change.
- Working in a highly collaborative and dynamic environment; embracing change and being both creative and agile.
- Being highly organized and detail oriented; aesthetically inclined and appreciative of entertaining at the highest levels of luxury.
- Interacting with and engaging CHANEL clients.
- Innovating and taking initiative; self-starting and proposing transformative solutions to management.
- Problem-solving creatively and communicating in a compelling way to a variety of different audiences.
- Prioritizing the importance of discretion and confidentiality when dealing with data.
- A very strong organizational skillset and confident managing details and data in an agile and swift way.
- Highly skilled in Excel and PowerPoint, with specific ability to build compelling, concise, and engaging decks.
- Experience in Marketing/ Events/ PR a plus.
- Professional proficiency in French a plus.
- Exciting opportunities to drive processes, implement initiatives, and engage clientele across the CHANEL VIC client lifecycle.
- Travel both internationally and domestically to assist in hosting and stewarding best in class, luxurious client events and experiences.
- Opportunity to be at forefront of a key areas of focus for division – clients.
- Highly visible and collaborative role—working with a wide variety of teams and levels across the organization.
- Opportunity to exercise both organizational skill-set and strong social/ ’people’ skills in one role.
- Opportunity to work/create relationships with global teams as well as international teams from CHANEL around the world, understanding how to connect the dots divisionally, regionally, and globally.