Jaeger-LeCoultre New Product Industrialisation Project Manager

About Jaeger-LeCoultre

Jaeger-LeCoultre, founded in 1833 in the Vallée de Joux, is one of Switzerland’s most revered watchmaking manufactures and a maison defined by invention, precision, and discreet elegance. As an employer, it offers a rare environment where artisans, engineers, designers, and commercial talents collaborate across more than 180 specialist skills, from movement development and grand complications to métiers d’art and client experience. Within the Richemont group, the maison combines heritage with international reach, encouraging rigorous craftsmanship, continuous learning, and respect for time as both a technical measure and a cultural value. Its teams contribute to enduring creations shaped by excellence, curiosity, and shared responsibility.

Role & Responsibilities

• Serve as the methods reference for new product projects involving movements and watches.
• Contribute to the project’s technical specifications, bringing an industrial perspective from the design phase.
• Lead, coordinate and ensure the progress of new product industrialisation in terms of cost, quality and deadlines, from prototype development, working with the Methods Agents and Purchasing.
• Report on the progress of the various industrialisation projects.
• Identify, assess and monitor project risks in close collaboration with the Project Manager and relevant teams.
• Lead make-or-buy decisions with Planning and Production.
• Manage manufacturing bills of materials for aesthetic models, prototypes and series production.
• Monitor product pricing and project tooling budgets.
• Ensure the industrialisation process runs smoothly and that processes are qualified in accordance with product technical requirements.
• Complete industrialisation and standardise product costs.
• Propose continuous improvements to the department and industrialisation processes.

Qualifications

• Engineering degree from a University of Applied Sciences (HES) or equivalent in microtechnology or mechanical engineering.
• Strong communication and leadership skills in a cross-functional organisation.
• Ability to work as part of a team, propose solutions and manage several projects simultaneously.
• Excellent analytical, critical-thinking and synthesis skills.
• Watchmaking knowledge and familiarity with the watchmaking industrial network are an advantage.
• Knowledge of the Windchill PLM tool is an advantage.

Skills

Experience

At least 3 years in a similar position.

Education

Engineering degree from a University of Applied Sciences (HES) or equivalent in microtechnology or mechanical engineering.

Culture

Jaeger-LeCoultre fosters a culture rooted in exceptional watchmaking savoir-faire, precision, and a deep respect for its heritage in the Vallée de Joux. As an employer, the Maison encourages collaboration between artisans, engineers, and creative talents, offering an environment where innovation and mastery are pursued with patience, rigor, and elegance.

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