International Tax Manager

Overview

Christian Dior Couture is a preeminent haute couture and luxury goods maison within the LVMH group. Renowned for craftsmanship, creativity and premium positioning across fashion and leather goods, the house operates in a highly international, fast-paced environment that demands technical excellence and cross‑functional collaboration.

Role & Responsibilities

• Define, implement and maintain the Group's transfer pricing policy across all international entities, ensuring alignment with evolving business models and regulatory developments.
• Design strategic transfer pricing approaches for goods, services, intangibles and financing, in line with LVMH directives and international best practices.
• Supervise preparation, filing and quality control of transfer pricing declarations and local documentation, including France’s formulaire 2257 and equivalents for foreign entities.
• Coordinate and maintain Master File, Local Files and comparability studies, ensuring completeness, traceability and local regulatory compliance.
• Perform detailed analyses of intragroup commercial, financial and service flows to assess tax compliance, identify risk areas and propose pragmatic remediation.
• Act as the internal technical reference on complex intragroup tax matters; advise finance, legal and operating teams on tax and customs implications of transactions.
• Support and lead responses to tax audits in France and provide technical assistance to foreign subsidiaries during local tax examinations.
• Anticipate and manage fiscal and customs risks (adjustments, penalties, double taxation) and propose mitigation strategies, including prior agreement requests or contract renegotiations.
• Monitor international tax and jurisprudential developments; analyze impacts on the Group and formulate strategic recommendations.
• Train and sensitize local finance and accounting teams; liaise with external tax and customs advisors when required.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree (Bac+5) in corporate taxation, international tax law or equivalent specialized postgraduate qualification.
• Minimum 10 years’ progressive experience in international tax, with significant exposure to transfer pricing; experience in a Big Four firm and/or a global corporation is mandatory.
• Advanced knowledge of OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines and local transfer pricing regimes, including French documentation requirements (formulaire 2257).
• Proven ability to prepare and supervise Master File, Local Files and comparability analyses.
• Strong analytical, synthesis and problem‑solving capabilities with a high level of autonomy and organisational skill.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, client service orientation and ability to operate in multicultural, cross‑functional teams.
• Fluency in French and English, both written and spoken.

Skills

Experience

Minimum 10 years of professional experience in international tax, with a proven track record in transfer pricing. Experience must include work in a leading advisory firm and/or within the tax function of a multinational group, handling documentation, tax audits and cross‑border tax structuring.

Education

Master’s degree (Bac+5) in corporate taxation, international tax law or equivalent specialised postgraduate qualification.

Culture

The maison fosters a high‑performance, detail‑oriented culture rooted in craftsmanship and creative excellence. As part of LVMH, it operates in a global, collaborative environment that values technical rigour, discretion and cultural diversity; the company also maintains specific commitments to inclusion, including measures to support the employment of people with disabilities.