- Location
- Chessy Île-de-France France
- Employment
- Full-Time
- Seniority
- Mid-Level
- Industry
- High Jewelry
- Posted
- Nov 5, 2026
About Hermès
This prestigious fashion house, renowned for its timeless elegance and innovative designs, is a part of a leading global luxury conglomerate. The brand is committed to excellence and offers a dynamic environment where creativity and business acumen are equally valued.
Hermès seeks a Workshop Performance Project Manager for its JMC jewellery workshops, based in Chessy on a permanent, full-time basis, with occasional travel to Lyon and Toulouse. Reporting to the JMC Director, the role leads operational performance systems, indicators, ERP optimisation and continuous-improvement projects across the workshops.
Role & Responsibilities
- Define, implement and deploy the indicators and routines required to manage operational performance across supply, subcontracting, development, quality and production operations.
- Develop performance indicators, routines and visual management tools with supply, quality and production managers, enabling teams to monitor quality, lead times, productivity and safety weekly and monthly.
- Support managers in deploying and running performance indicators and routines.
- Monitor the performance of the current product portfolio, new products and transfers in coordination with relevant departments, and track products throughout their production lifecycle.
- Support workshops in optimising use of the NEO-FUGU ERP and establish shared performance-management tools across sites and workshops.
- Consolidate development requirements for NEO in line with workshop, business and new ERP needs, and track development progress.
- Define business intelligence (BI) tools with the Industrial Transformation teams to manage workshop performance.
- Ensure the reliability and continuous improvement of performance-management tools, acting as a key liaison with the ERP provider and Hermès IT teams.
- Develop a continuous-improvement culture across workshops and departments by supporting teams with problem-solving and progress-plan initiatives.
- Frame, facilitate, communicate and monitor projects using project-management tools, communication materials and team support.
- Help JMC enrich its product mix to meet market demand for new, precious and complex products while preserving quality and price, structure performance management through tools, routines and visual management, and identify performance levers.
Qualifications
- Strong interest in hands-on workshop environments and close engagement with teams.
- Proficiency in IT and data-management tools, including ERP, BI and advanced Excel.
- Ability to lead and coordinate cross-functional projects, particularly continuous-improvement initiatives.
- Pragmatic, results-oriented approach and a focus on practical solutions.
- Ability to turn analyses into effective operational action plans.
- Recognised change-management skills and ability to engage teams in adopting new practices.
- Ability to teach, guide and unite teams.
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a strong team-working approach.
- Ideally, higher education in engineering, business school or university studies.
- Approximately 3–5 years of experience in industry.
- Experience with continuous-improvement topics.
Skills
Experience
Approximately 3–5 years of experience in industry; experience with continuous-improvement topics.
Education
Ideally, higher education in engineering, business school or university studies.
Workplace
The successful candidate will be located in Chessy, Île-de-France, France, with easy access to Paris.
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Culture
The company fosters a collaborative and innovative culture, encouraging employees to push the boundaries of creativity while maintaining a strong commitment to sustainability and ethical practices.
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