CDI – SENIOR FORECASTER – FRAGANCE & BEAUTY – CHANEL EUROPE – M/F/D

About the job

Join the European Fragrance & Beauty Operations team as a Senior Forecaster and drive strategic demand planning across the region. You will report to the Forecast Manager and work closely with marketing, finance, sales, and supply chain teams to support business performance across the whole product portfolio.

What impact you can create at Chanel

• Provide a reliable, consolidated forecast by integrating local Market specificities, product activation plans, commercial objectives and supply constraints.
• Challenge campaign demand assumptions across local Markets to ensure alignment with the European strategy.
• Drive performance indicators and management routines to improve forecast accuracy, manage bias and service levels, enabling proactive decisions.
• Functionally lead and develop a community of three Forecasters and two interns, setting priorities, providing forecasting expertise, building capabilities, and driving alignment and best practices
• Lead Europe’s monthly demand review and continuous-improvement initiatives, aligning Markets and global teams on potential risks, opportunities and harmonised forecasting, allocation and Sales & Operations practices.

You are energised by

• Turning business ambitions into clear, actionable forecasting strategies and priorities.
• Supporting team members through a collaborative, empowering coaching mindset.
• Solving complex supply chain challenges by combining data, market intelligence and business insight.
• Building strong partnerships across various teams, proactively guiding decisions.
• Driving change to simplify processes and enhance business performance.

What you will bring

• Master’s degree from a business or engineering school, with ideally 5 years’ experience in Demand Planning, Forecasting, Sales and Operations or Supply Chain.
• Proven functional leadership experience in aligning teams, and fostering collective performance.
• Advanced Excel skills, with proficiency in Power BI, demand planning tools and data management.
• Excellent stakeholder-management and communication skills, with the confidence to build alignment and constructively challenge.
• Fluency in English; French is a plus.·   

What Chanel can offer you

• A strategic role at the intersection of business ambition, product strategy and operational execution across Europe.
• The opportunity to develop a forecasting community, fostering collaboration, expertise sharing and continuous improvement.
• Direct exposure to senior cross-functional stakeholders and strategic decision-making across the company.
• The chance to lead transformation initiatives and harmonise forecasting, allocation and Sales & Operations practices across Europe.
• A dynamic, collaborative and international environment.

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.