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 energize collaboration between teams, especially with methods and industrialization.

With higher education (engineering type) in micromechanics, mechanical engineering, watchmaking, or an equivalent qualification, you have 3-5 years of 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 watchmaking product development project manager

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 creating a complete specification in collaboration with product managers and stakeholders, from the marketing brief to product modifications through needs analysis, planning, cost evaluation, product reliability, and project risks;
• evaluating development deadlines and design milestones;
• monitoring and leading 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 a watchmaking product development project manager

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 in the Lake Geneva region, driven by augmented innovation: engineering, advanced technologies, and the industry of the future.