Christian Dior CDD Responsable de Collection Maroquinerie Femme H/F

Position

In the frame of a fixed‑term contract (maternity leave replacement), as Responsable des Collections Maroquinerie Femme on the Lady Dior & Piliers pole and in direct link with the category director, your role is to develop and build the collections, in perfect coordination with the Style and Market teams (4 collections per year + special launches).

Job responsibilities

• Management of the Lady Dior & Piliers product bag team (5 people)
• Leadership of collection development:
  • Be keeper of the successful collections, brand vision and commercial success
  • Manage plans & budget tracking
• Supervise data and coding quality of the teams
• Perform collection briefs (4/yr) for the studio: trends, market opportunities, strategic directions, target collection plan
• Validate model and name deposits with the Legal team
• Track technical development with industrial and quality teams
• Ensure product functionality and aesthetic expectations
• Edit the collection plan with Studio and development teams, product recommendations and adjustments until showroom
• Build the modelario: collection dashboard and purchasing tool
• Develop pricing strategy with industrial team, price setting and repricing, margin control and tracking
• Create product narrative for all internal clients
• Organize showroom (4/yr): manage prototypes and product shoots with photo studio, present products to Retail and Wholesale merchandisers
• Travel occasionaly to Italy (3 or 4 per year)
• Be a woman leather market expert:
  • Present & report projects to management
  • Supervise competitor studies and price mapping
• Coordinate 360 commercialisation of collections:
  • Coordinate launches to optimise collection launches: present collections and product strategy to all parties (press, digital, VIP/VIC, training...)
  • Select and provide prototypes for various shoots, manage orders for Press, Digital & VIP
  • Produce post-showroom summary documents: buying recap for press, training, etc., launch packs for zones

Profile

• Education in Commerce, Marketing, and Management
• At least 6 years experience in Luxury and Fashion
• Strong product sensitivity to leather goods, deep knowledge of competitive environment
• Excellent managerial capacity and prior team management experience
• Mastery of French, English, Italian is plus
• Excellent writing and oral presentation skills
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
• Strong analytic, synthesis, organisation, initiative abilities
• High rigor, precision, attention to detail
• Team spirit, autonomy, dynamic, good relational skills
• Curious, open, strong communication, listening, observation skills

Additional information

Encouraging diversity in all its forms, Christian Dior Couture has been committed since 2013 to an approach that favors employment of people in disability situations.