Reference code: JR124693
Richemont owns some of the world’s leading luxury goods Maisons, with particular strengths in jewellery, fine watches and premium accessories. Each Maison represents a proud tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont seeks to preserve the heritage and identity of each of its Maisons. At the same time, we are committed to innovation and designing new products which are in keeping with our Maisons’ values, through a process of continuous creativity.
Digital Manufacturing Technology Team Lead
“Join a dynamic Technology and Business environment to help our Manufactures transition into Industry 4.0 tools and practices”
CONTEXT
Our Manufactures have embarked into a journey with Industry 4.0 to accelerate digitalization and support more connected operational use cases bringing more efficiency and quality, based on latest technologies for Industrial IoT, Automation, No/Low Coding platforms and Analytics.
The scope of our manufacturing operations covers 30+ sites in Europe on which 20+ in Switzerland and various business activities mainly based on watchmaking & jewellery, from traditional to more industrialized practices.
HOW WILL YOU MAKE AN IMPACT?
The role is embedded in Richemont’s Group Technology Product Domain “Operations & Services” and part of the Manufacturing Product Area.
As a Digital Manufacturing Tech Team Lead, you and your team will be responsible for the analysis, design, deployment and support of the different components of our Digital Manufacturing Applications Architecture. You will be accountable for the improvements and delivery of the applications according to the roadmap of our “Product Owner” and guidelines of our Architects.
Our scope of Digital Manufacturing includes all business processes of the value chain related to Production, and Maintenance. This scope requires specialized solutions as back-End like SAP PP, Rhize MES, and Asset Maintenance Solutions, which are exposed to various Manufacturing Execution Front-End. This decoupling strategy is supported within a modern landscape based on APIs and Event Driven Architecture.
In a logic of real-time execution and data driven, Richemont is applying advanced solution regarding the IIOT (Industrial Internet of Things) for machine connectivity, with the ambition of an harmonized data conversion (based on ISA95 concept) to make data accessible from our entire manufacture to a single point (Unified NameSpace).
Key Responsibilities:
- Define a technical Vision and maintain the roadmap in alignment with product strategy and enterprise architecture.
- In charge of managing a Technology Team of experienced Consultants in designing, deploying and supporting our solutions for our Manufactures, according to our Agile practices
- Lead, Develop and motivate your Team to propose the best solutions and continuously learn new skills and technologies
- Ensure compliance with architecture and security guardrails.
- Prepare Budget and plan your team capacity to support all the initiatives requested by our Maisons
- Liaise and be the key contact to integrate with other teams on all integration topics
HOW WILL YOU EXPERIENCE SUCESS WITH US?
- Master degree / Engineer with strong emphasis in Industrial or Mechanical Engineering
- 7+ years of experience, ideally with a consulting background, in contact with industrial environments in Production as well in IT
- Strong Experience in full Projects lifecycle deploying Manufacturing ERP & MES from Design to Run
- Collaborative leadership and coaching mindset.
- Experience in designing business solutions based on SAP PP, with MES related experiences, ideally also with Low Code / No Code platforms
- Good understanding of architecture design principles and integration technologies such as APIs
- Good understanding of software development & customizing lifecycle in Agile and Scrum models
- Experience in Team Management overseeing the Design, Deployment and Support activities, including budget follow up and planning activities
- Excellent ability and experience to effectively communicate technical information to management, peers and industry partners.
- Fluent in French and English
HOW DO WE KEEP YOU SMILING?
- The role is a perfect mix between designing, building and maintaining new solutions while developing and leading an experienced agile team at the service of all our Maisons’ Manufactures
- The variety and density of initiatives with our Maisons provides a great portfolio of opportunities to always learn and develop new skills
- At Richemont we can and do discuss with all levels of technology and business, and your value-added and advice is highly appreciated by the business stakeholders.
YOUR JOURNEY WITH US:
1. If your application is selected, we will reach out to you ASAP for an informal introductory call.
2. The next step from there would be a first Technical interview with the Manufacturing Product Area Manager and if there is a match, you will have a personal meeting with him/her and our HR Business Partner.
