Product Development Project Manager – Watchmaking (m/f)

About the job

Are you passionate about managing and developing new products?

An excellent communicator – in French and English – you are methodical, pragmatic and autonomous. Customer-oriented and positive in character, you possess interpersonal skills and enthusiasm, and know how to energise collaboration between teams, particularly with methods and industrialisation.

With a higher education background (such as engineering) in micromechanics, mechanical engineering, watchmaking or an equivalent qualification, you have 3-5 years’ experience in managing product development projects in an agile mode meeting strict aesthetic criteria, ideally in a similar position or within a watchmaking technical office.

Join the Auctae team as a product development project manager in watchmaking

As a product development project manager you are responsible for

• managing a portfolio of product projects to be developed by liaising with the multifunctional team of engineers, technicians, design, marketing, technical office, quality, purchasing, after-sales service, finance, logistics, etc.;
• defining the project by producing a complete specification in collaboration with product managers and stakeholders, from the marketing brief to product modifications including needs analysis, planning, cost evaluation, product reliability and project risks;
• assessing development timescales and design milestones;
• monitoring and driving projects from pre-study to production launch and product modification requests;
• ensuring communication of project progress to management and relevant departments and guaranteeing perfect project file management to maintain reliable traceability;
• being proactive in improving product improvement methodology and ensuring technological watch.

Required permit to join Auctae as Product Development Project Manager in Watchmaking

Are you Swiss nationality, holding a valid work permit (B, C or G) or a national of one of the EU-26 / EFTA member states?

Position open to all persons matching the profile. Permanent contract (CDI).

We are Auctae, a Swiss company based on the Lake Geneva arc, driven by augmented innovation: engineering, advanced technologies and the industry of the future.