Portfolio and Governance Manager, North Asia and SEAA

Contract: 6-month Fixed-term (Maternity cover)

Your role @ CHANEL 

Orchestrate and govern the endtoend IT and digital project portfolio for North Asia and SEAA, ensuring strategic alignment, consistent prioritization, financial integrity, operational transparency, and crossregional synchronization with global, regional, and market stakeholders. 

The impact you can create at CHANEL 

Portfolio Governance & Strategic Alignment 

• Establish and coordinate a unified view of the pipeline across both regions, ensuring visibility and synchronization with market CIOs and global domain owners.  

• Capture project performance, ensuring alignment to strategic plans and KPIs to be reviewed with CIO NA&SEAA. 

Portfolio Intake, Categorization & Prioritization 

• Manage the project intake process, ensuring completeness, clarity, and consistency of project ID cards and business cases.  

• Apply categorization principles (Priorities / Initiatives / Run) and ensure alignment with regional frameworks (NA & SEAA). 

• Highlight interdependencies and resource constraints affecting prioritization with focus on global and local initiatives impacting regional teams. 

Financial Governance & discipline 

• Partner with Finance to ensure coherence between project portfolio, budget envelopes, and regional/market cost allocations. 

• Ensure correct mapping of purpose codes, GL accounts, domains, project types, and consolidation logic (e.g., CRAFT, Zenith, GITA, COUPA). 

• Support budgeting cycles (FQ1, B25, MTP 2628) through scenario modeling, consolidation, and validation. 
   

Governance Process & Continuous Improvement 

• Champion and advocate governance standards, templates, and methodologies (Project ID cards, CER, vendor reviews). 

• Support implementation of global portfolio governance processes in collaboration with Global IT Portfolio teams and CEO Office (Zenith, NOVA tools for portfolio management) 

• Act as a catalyst for operational simplicity and crossregion harmonization (e.g., NA × SEAA project governance alignment, vendor management, dashboarding for CIO). 
   

CrossFunctional Collaboration 

• Act as a connector between Tech, Finance, markets, and Global partners (Global governance bodies). 

• Facilitate crossregional understanding of project impact, interdependence and stakeholder responsibilities. 

• Engage actively with Presidents’ Offices in NA and SEAA on portfolio matters, where relevant. 

• Suggest and implement improvement of existing processes linked to budgeting, landing and governance instances (project, portfolio, vendor management) 

• Ensure procurement processes are followed and suggest improvement for accelerating resource onboarding. 

You are energized by… 

• Contributing to the Tech roadmap and strategic plans, ensuring consistency and alignment between the Digital leaders, Local tech leaders, President Office governance bodies 

• Collaborating with global to ensure balance between initiatives coming from global, regional and various markets. 

• Supporting the budgeting exercises and facilitating discussion to optimize budget (BUILD / RUN). 

• Supporting domain and sub-domain leaders in budget landing and burn rate to ensure agility in budget reallocation 

• Supporting reporting to global Tech finance and global tech portfolio. 

• Suggesting adoption of global practices, standard or technology for standardization and simplification. 

• Supporting the Tech department on phasing and timing of initiatives for budget performance. 

What you can bring to the team… 

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business Administration, or related field.

• 5+ years’ experience in strategic planning, program/portfolio management, or financial control within tech departments.

• Familiar with project management methodologies and multinational company environments.

• Strong teamwork, self-motivation, and adaptability.

• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.

• Creative, critical thinker who shares ideas for improvement.

• Effective planner, quick learner, and able to thrive under deadlines.

• Clear communicator in English; able to explain technical topics simply.

• Skilled at connecting technical concepts to business value.

• Able to influence and collaborate across teams, even without authority.

What you will learn / What CHANEL can offer you… 

• How to orchestrate from one of the most dynamic regions the various projects and programme in a large and complex organization.

• Simplify existing workflows and ways of working and be a key actor to implement at regional level first and eventually beyond (global / market)

• Exposure to all divisions and corporate functions of the company

• Transform a global strategic Tech vision with strategic intents of 2 regions into one compelling vision 

• Bridge Vision and execution while working with Finance and strategy and governance bodies with the support of Tech stakeholders 

At Chanel, we are you 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.