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Chanel

Designs, sells luxury fashion and cosmetics

Product Manager, Ready-to-Wear Embroidery

ProductConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeParis, FranceNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bac+5 qualification from a fashion school, engineering school, or equivalent is required.
  • Five to eight years of confirmed experience in product development, embroidery, trimmings, or technical supply chains at a fashion house or embroidery manufacturer.
  • Advanced knowledge of women's ready-to-wear manufacturing processes and industrial processes, with expertise in materials and embroidery, including technical knowledge, product lifecycle management, digital tools, and pricing.
  • Proficiency in French and English is required.

Responsibilities

  • Define the ready-to-wear embroidery development calendar with the Studio and department lead, and facilitate key process milestones, including kick-offs, FTS, checkpoints, and approvals.
  • Translate stylistic direction into precise technical briefs, identify implicit needs, and propose innovative solutions.
  • Launch, monitor, and arbitrate sample and prototype development, and manage key actions such as MAP, pre-orders, and product lifecycle management.
  • Ensure deadlines, quality, and budgets are met throughout the development cycle through production handoff.
  • Manage the transition from prototype to production and ensure that approved collection embroideries meet technical requirements during industrialization.
  • Preserve creative intent during industrialization by ensuring produced embroidery meets stylistic requirements and expected production quality and durability, in close collaboration with the Studio and Métiers d’Art.
  • Optimize processes to reduce costs without compromising style by analyzing techniques, components, and manufacturing steps and proposing improvements to materials, execution, and innovative alternatives while preserving design integrity.
  • Plan and monitor industrial tests, including reproducibility trials, materials and process validation, and care tests.
  • Ensure embroidery reproducibility and robustness in production.
  • Complete, update, and distribute final technical files, including bills of materials, technical sheets, quality standards, assembly instructions, and quality-control instructions, to manufacturers.
  • Anticipate production risks involving deadlines, quality, and feasibility; conduct risk analyses, propose corrective actions, and monitor implementation.
  • Report regularly on performance indicators such as nonconformity rates, deadlines, and costs; prepare post-industrialization reviews and use lessons learned to improve processes.
  • Coordinate internal stakeholders, embroiderers, and partners by sharing guidelines, leading meetings, and managing performance to strengthen collaboration with Métiers d’Art.
  • Work closely with the Studio, materials and trimmings teams, product managers, procurement, and production.
  • Propose solutions to technical problems and contribute to the department’s digitalization, environmental responsibility, and innovation initiatives.
  • Negotiate prices, prepare PRI, analyze value, and ensure the economic coherence of product developments.
  • Monitor and optimize the collection budget with management control, and manage performance indicators for deadlines, quality, and costs.
  • Promote embroidery expertise and create communication materials for markets, press, and internal teams.
  • Organize and coordinate the production of videos and other materials showcasing embroidery expertise.
  • Monitor innovations, materials, techniques, and trends; meet suppliers through trade shows and archive visits, and initiate modernization projects.

Desired Qualifications

  • Italian language proficiency is a plus.

About the Company

Chanel

Designs, sells luxury fashion and cosmetics

1) What does Chanel do? Chanel is a luxury fashion house that offers a range of high-end products including fashion, accessories, fragrances, skincare, makeup, jewelry, and watches, targeting affluent customers worldwide. 2) How does its product work? It designs and sells premium, timeless items through owned boutiques, official online channels, and authorized retailers, supported by strong marketing, fashion shows, and brand storytelling to maintain desirability and loyalty. 3) How is Chanel different from competitors? It combines a storied brand heritage with exclusive, premium products and strict distribution control, creating a sense of rarity and prestige that appeals to luxury buyers. 4) What is Chanel's goal? To preserve its elite brand status while growing a loyal, affluent customer base by delivering consistently refined, timeless designs and a premium consumer experience.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$770M
Headquarters
Argueil, France
Founded
1883

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