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Richemont

Luxury-goods holding company acquiring maisons

Senior Lean Expert

Manufacturing & Process EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHamburg, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A completed technical degree, such as engineering sciences, industrial engineering, or production engineering, or an equivalent qualification.
  • At least 5 years of relevant professional experience applying Lean production principles and methods, ideally in a manufacturing company.
  • Sound knowledge of common Lean methods and tools, such as value stream analysis, 5S, SMED, Kanban, continuous improvement (KVP), total productive maintenance (TPM), or Six Sigma, and demonstrated success improving throughput times and efficiency.
  • Experience supporting change processes and introducing new ways of working.
  • Strong communication and facilitation skills, and the ability to engage and empower employees in change.
  • A structured, solution-oriented, and independent working style, and willingness to work actively close to shop-floor processes.
  • Openness to new methods and approaches, and willingness to test and implement them in practice.
  • Fluent German and good written and spoken English.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement a sustainably effective Lean strategy.
  • Initiate and drive cross-functional improvement projects and programs to achieve ambitious targets for productivity, quality, throughput time, and delivery reliability.
  • Analyze complex production processes and material flows, and develop and implement sustainable, cross-functional optimization concepts based on Lean principles.
  • Select, develop, and implement appropriate Lean methods and approaches according to each challenge.
  • Analyze root causes of complex process disruptions, bottlenecks, and cross-functional conflicts, and develop and advance workable solutions with relevant stakeholders.
  • Drive the Lean transformation and new ways of working across functions, and engage and empower employees and leaders to adopt Lean.
  • Identify and assess best practices and new Lean methods, and support the implementation of new technologies and the selection and implementation of equipment and technologies from a Lean perspective.
  • Support continuous improvement and improvement initiatives, share Lean knowledge, and enable employees to apply it independently.

Desired Qualifications

  • Ideally, relevant Lean experience is in a manufacturing company.

About the Company

Richemont

Luxury-goods holding company acquiring maisons

Richemont is a Swiss-based holding company that owns a collection of luxury brands, including Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Jaeger-LeCoultre, and IWC Schaffhausen. It operates by acquiring and nurturing iconic luxury maisons with rich histories, then leveraging their heritage to create premium jewelry, watches, and accessories sold worldwide through its brands and retail networks. Unlike diversified conglomerates that mix many non-luxury businesses, Richemont focuses exclusively on high-end goods and has deliberately shifted away from other interests (like tobacco) to sharpen its luxury focus. Its goal is to build a global luxury powerhouse by growing its brands, expanding across geographies, and maintaining control over premium product sourcing, design, and distribution.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Bellevue, Switzerland
Founded
1988

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