Marion Malville joins Relais & Châteaux as HR Director

Marion Malville has joined Relais & Châteaux as Human Resources Director, bringing experience in luxury brands, hospitality and consulting to the international hotel and restaurant association.

The association lists Malville on its management committee. The appointment was reported in October 2026; an exact starting date has not been specified in the sources reviewed.

Marion Malville’s people leadership remit

In its appointment announcement, Vendôm Talents said Malville would support people strategy and organisational transformation while preserving the association’s identity and values.

Her background combines talent development and organisational change with experience of both international luxury businesses and hotel operations.

A career across luxury and hospitality

Malville has more than 15 years of HR experience, including roles at Accenture, Louis Vuitton, CHANEL and Le Royal Monceau, Raffles Paris.

According to Humakina’s appointment report, she joined Louis Vuitton in 2018 as Global Lead Culture and HR Development. Her work covered management culture, performance practices and employee development across an international business.

She subsequently held HR development responsibilities at CHANEL and became HR Director at Le Royal Monceau, Raffles Paris in 2023. In 2024, she returned to CHANEL to lead HR development in France, covering recruitment, training, onboarding and talent management.

An association of independent properties

Vendôm Talents described the Relais & Châteaux network as comprising 580 independent properties across 65 countries, representing 42,000 employees. Those figures describe the wider member network, rather than a single directly employed workforce.

People development within a distinct hospitality model

The appointment brings experience of luxury service and structured HR development to an association built around independent hotels and restaurants. The stated emphasis on preserving its identity is relevant to that setting: organisational change must be considered alongside the character of its member properties.

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AI-assisted watercolour illustration of Marion Malville, based on her official Relais & Châteaux portrait.