The LVMH Métiers d'Excellence

LVMH’s Métiers d’Excellence encompass over 280 Creative, Craft and Client Experience métiers with unique savoir-faire that are indispensable to the success of the Group and our Maisons.

LVMH’s Métiers d’Excellence encompass over 280 Creative, Craft and Client Experience métiers with unique savoir-faire that are indispensable to the success of the Group and our Maisons.

These métiers allow us to control every link in our value chain, from the sourcing of raw materials to the production and the selective retailing of our products. This control guarantees our excellence, both upstream and downstream.

The Métiers d’Excellence LVMH have a three-fold mission:

PASS ON

unique skills to ensure that these métiers thrive in the future, and recruit the most talented people.

RECOGNIZE

and develop talented people at our Maisons.

PROMOTE

and celebrate the extraordinary Heritage and Savoir-Faire of Excellence that Make LVMH unique in the world, and showcase our initiatives among the public.

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THE MÉTIERS D'EXCELLENCE'S INITIATIVES

EXCELLENT! PROGRAM IN MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS

To ensure that our LVMH Métiers d’Excellence continue to thrive long into the future and attract the very best talent, the Group has been running the Excellent! outreach and guidance program in middle schools and high schools since January 2021. Through this program, métier experts from the Maisons introduce young people to skilled Creative, Craft and Customer Experience métiers.Thanks to this initiative, LVMH has been able to reach out to more than 8,700 young people.
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THE YOU & ME TOUR: SHOWCASING LVMH'S MÉTIERS D'EXCELLENCE

Each year, the Métiers d’Excellence tour a number of cities in France and Italy to connect with the general public. This tour offers visitors the opportunity to learn more about our métiers requiring savoir-faire, receive HR support, and become acquainted with traditional craft techniques. In 2026, more than 10,000 visitors were able to explore the wealth of savoir-faire possessed by the Group’s Maisons. Launched in 2022, this initiative reflects the LVMH Group’s commitment to inclusion and its aim  to develop the employability of young people and people seeking reskilling opportunities in Creative, Craft and Customer Experience métiers by guiding them toward targeted training programs and providing them access to job offers.

THE INSTITUTE OF MÉTIERS D'EXCELLENCE

Offering the first work-study program in the luxury sector, the Institute of Métiers d’Excellence (ME) trains new talents each year in Creative, Craft and Customer Experience métiers. In partnership with prestigious schools and universities, the ME Institute has already trained more than 3,800 apprentices by combining classroom learning with in-house experience at LVMH Maisons.

LVMH VIRTUOSOS

Experts recognized for their exceptional savoir-faire are selected each year as Virtuosos from among the more than 100,000 employees working in a Métier d'Excellence. As true ambassadors of their savoir-faire, they benefit from a dedicated support program and pass on their passion to young people and people seeking reskilling opportunities.

“THE STORY BEHIND ME” REVEALS LVMH METIERS D’EXCELLENCE

In the succession of three stories that form a single one, we discover the face, the intelligence, the keen eye, the hands, the sensibility of women and men who pass on from one generation to the next, from one métier to another, the passion for beauty, for timeless quality, for various skills so patiently acquired and optimized so much so they become an art…

“WE FOR ME” PACT

We seek to attract new generations and recruit the best talents, regardless of their backgrounds, in order to preserve the exceptional yet often little-known skills that are essential to the LVMH Group and its Maisons. We have a responsibility to ensure that these métiers survive and thrive. With the “We for Me” Manifesto, signed by members of the LVMH Executive Committee and all the CEOs of our Maisons, we formally make a commitment to:

1

Identify Métiers d'Excellence and ensure their preservation,

especially those that require long and demanding apprenticeships or face a shortage of candidates.

2

Meet the development needs of each skillset

and promote career-long learning, notably through continuing education.

3

Anticipating the competencies and savoir-faire

needed to perform the Métiers d'Excellence of tomorrow by stimulating innovation and creativity.

4

Encourage cross-disciplinary exchanges

among different Métiers d'Excellence.

5

Support work/study and apprenticeship approaches

that combine theory and practice.

6

Encourage mentoring and coaching,

with a focus on passing on skills from one generation to the next.

7

Develop and promote the employability

of young talents, as well as people who are reskilling.

8

Promote people with talent in all their diversity,

embodying the LVMH Group's policy of support for equal opportunity.

9

Forge partnerships with organizations

- non-profit associations, institutions and schools - whose vocation involves developing Métiers d'Excellence, and support solidarity initiatives through our philanthropy.

10

Promote broad awareness

of these exceptional skills and inspire vocations.

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