Cartier Quality Manager
- Location
- GlovelierJuraSwitzerland
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Manager
- Industry
- Fine Watches & Horology
- Posted
- Aug 19, 2026
About Cartier
Cartier is one of the world’s most revered Maisons of luxury, celebrated for its high jewellery, watchmaking excellence, and enduring Parisian elegance since 1847. As an employer, Cartier offers a refined environment where craftsmanship, creativity, client excellence, and entrepreneurial spirit are cultivated with care. Its teams contribute to a heritage defined by innovation, cultural influence, and exceptional savoir-faire, while benefiting from the global strength and values of the Richemont Group. Cartier seeks individuals who combine aesthetic sensitivity, precision, collaboration, and a commitment to service, inviting them to help shape the future of a Maison synonymous with beauty, rarity, and timeless distinction.
Cartier Quality Manager, Glovelier Switzerland – lead quality strategy and operations at luxury watchmaking manufacture.
Role & Responsibilities
- Guarantee product and process quality standards across all manufacturing activities
- Define, deploy, and evolve the manufacture's quality strategy and objectives
- Pilot quality indicators and analyse trends to identify improvement opportunities
- Lead and develop the Quality team, fostering autonomy, accountability, and skill advancement
- Identify root causes of non-conformities and manage corrective and preventive action plans
- Partner with production teams to resolve quality issues and implement continuous improvement initiatives
- Establish and maintain a risk prevention and quality risk management culture
- Participate in industrialisation, product development, and process improvement projects
- Collaborate closely with Production, Methods, Industrialisation, Development, and Logistics teams
- Monitor supplier quality performance and lead associated improvement programmes
- Prepare for and support internal and external audits
- Ensure application and evolution of quality standards, procedures, and tools
Qualifications
- General engineering diploma or equivalent qualification
- Confirmed experience in a quality function, preferably in a demanding industrial environment
- Preferred experience in watchmaking, microtechnics, or precision manufacturing sectors
- Expertise in quality management and mastery of problem-solving tools, root cause analysis, FMEA, and SPC
- Knowledge of Lean Management, Six Sigma, risk management, and quality auditing methodologies
- Demonstrated capability to lead, support, and develop teams
- Strong leadership, rigour, attention to detail, analytical thinking, and results-oriented mindset
- Ability to work cross-functionally across different departments and hierarchical levels
- Skilled at transforming quality issues into concrete, sustainable action plans
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; ability to persuade and unite stakeholders
Skills
Experience
Confirmed professional experience in a quality management role within a demanding industrial environment, with preference given to candidates with background in watchmaking, microtechnics, or related precision manufacturing sectors.
Education
General engineering diploma or equivalent qualification.
Workplace
This position is based in Glovelier, Jura, Switzerland, within easy reach of Basel.
Culture
Cartier fosters a workplace culture rooted in exceptional craftsmanship, creativity, and respect for its rich heritage as a leading luxury Maison. Employees are encouraged to uphold the highest standards of excellence while contributing to an international, collaborative environment where innovation, elegance, and client-centric service are deeply valued.
About Cerulean
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