Richemont Business Planning Manager

About Richemont

Richemont is one of the world’s foremost luxury groups, stewarding a distinguished portfolio of maisons across jewellery, watchmaking, fashion and accessories, including Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Jaeger-LeCoultre and Montblanc. As an employer, it combines the heritage of artisanal excellence with a forward-looking culture shaped by innovation, client-centricity and responsible business. Its global teams operate in an environment that values craftsmanship, entrepreneurship and collaboration, offering opportunities to grow within iconic maisons and group functions alike. Richemont attracts professionals who aspire to contribute to enduring luxury, preserving rare savoir-faire while helping define the future of high craftsmanship.

Role & Responsibilities

• Translate annual and multi-year direction into objectives, initiatives, milestones, dependencies, resource requirements and outcome measures.
• Maintain an integrated view of plans, capacity, dependencies and progress across projects, products, operational work, improvement activity and change initiatives.
• Manage incoming demand and assess its value, urgency, risk, dependencies, readiness and fit with available capacity.
• Align cross-team execution plans and critical dependencies, resolving or escalating issues that threaten progress.
• Develop recommendations to start, pause, sequence or stop work based on strategic fit, value, urgency, risk, dependencies and capacity.
• Make demand and internal and external delivery capacity visible, including resource allocation, capability gaps, over-commitment and delivery consequences.
• Partner with Finance and stakeholders to prepare investment information, planning assumptions, resource scenarios and portfolio budget views.
• Decide execution sequencing and resource allocation within delegated authority, escalating significant priority, funding or cross-functional resource conflicts.
• Maintain outcome, delivery and adoption measures aligned with business objectives.
• Link initiatives to expected outcomes and benefit measures, track results after launch and recommend improvements where needed.
• Provide concise reporting on progress, portfolio health, capacity, risk, financial implications and required decisions.
• Use performance data to improve planning assumptions, governance, resource allocation and management cadence.
• Lead execution directly for selected high-priority, complex or cross-functional programmes as needed.
• Manage milestones, critical paths, stakeholder alignment, dependencies, risks and implementation readiness for those programmes.
• Support portfolio and project leads in strengthening outcome ownership, decision-making, stakeholder management and autonomous execution.
• Establish planning definitions, templates, decision cadences, standards and knowledge assets that improve consistency without unnecessary bureaucracy.

Qualifications

• Relevant experience in business planning, portfolio management, programme management, strategy execution, transformation or a comparable field.
• Experience establishing or improving planning or portfolio-management practices in an evolving organisation.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional programmes and coordinating business, technology, Finance, regional or global teams, and external partners.
• Experience linking initiatives to budgets, capacity, business outcomes, benefits and performance measures.
• Ability to structure ambiguity and present concise options, trade-offs, recommendations and required decisions to senior leaders.
• Ability to advance cross-team execution through facilitation, constructive challenge, negotiation and coaching.
• Practical experience with Jira, Confluence, demand-management tools or portfolio-planning tools is preferred.
• Experience in an organisation involving global, regional and local stakeholders is preferred.
• Business-level English and native-level Japanese.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education or practical experience.

Skills

Experience

Relevant experience in business planning, portfolio management, programme management, strategy execution, transformation or a comparable field; Senior Manager appointments typically require 6 or more years, while equivalent experience appropriate to the scope may be accepted for Manager appointments.

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent education or practical experience.

Culture

Richemont fosters a refined, international workplace where its Maisons preserve exceptional craftsmanship while benefiting from the strength and perspective of a global luxury group. As an employer, it values long-term stewardship, collaboration, innovation, and the development of talent within an environment shaped by heritage, creativity, and high standards.

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