Global R&D Manager

--- base: meta-keywords: meta-viewport: width=device-width, title: Global R\&D Manager --- Global R\\\&D Manager =================== For more than 46 years, the Laurastar Group has combined innovation, ambition, and excellence to create long\\-lasting products that beautify and purify your clothes and home. The family\\-owned Swiss group's expertise now extends from ironing and fabric care to hygienic steam systems aimed at creating a healthier home for you and your loved ones. Thanks to its unique Dry Microfine Steam DMS technology, Laurastar is the world leader in high\\-end steam systems, with over 3 million products sold in over 40 countries worldwide. In Switzerland, where the Group's headquarters are located, almost a quarter of households own at least one of the brand's most popular products. Laurastar employs around 280 employees, including its subsidiaries in Germany, France, Benelux and Hungary. Our motivated, well\\-trained, hard\\-working, result\\-oriented employees are the foundation of our success. If you would like to contribute to this success, we look forward to meeting you! To strengthen our R\\\&D team at our headquarters in Châtel\\-St\\-Denis, we are looking for our future, \*\*Global R\\\&D Manager\*\* Reporting directly to Julie Monney, co\\-CEO, you will lead Laurastar's R\\\&D activities and turn the company's product vision into innovative products and services brought successfully to market. You will manage our R\\\&D team while driving current product development and future innovation in parallel. You will also play a key role in integrating AI, IoT and robotics into our products, services and ways of working, in close collaboration with internal departments, suppliers, universities, laboratories and technology partners. \*\*Your key responsibilities\*\* \*\*Manage the R\\\&D teamand turn the company's product vision into products and services on the market.\*\* \* Supervise the R\\\&D team: priorities, coaching, technical decisions. \* Run several development projects in parallel, from concept to market launch, on time and on budget. \* Own the R\\\&D budget and the product development roadmap. \* \*\*Run current product development and innovation in parallel, working with internal and external partners.\*\* \* Balance the development of today's products with future innovation. \* Drive next\\-generation steam: miniaturisation, performance. \* Explore new products and uses in fabric care and steam cleaning with the co\\-CEO. \*\*Bring AI, IoT data and robotics into Laurastar's products, services and ways of working.\*\* \* Use AI tools daily and lead their adoption across R\\\&D to design, simulate, test and improve products faster. \* Build partnerships with AI engineering platforms that use AI to speed up simulation and design. \* Own our IoT product data: understand what connected products tell us, and build toward predictive analysis (usage, maintenance, next products). \* Keep a close watch on home robotics and humanoid robots, and explore their potential for Laurastar. \*\*Be the cross\\-department lead for product development with purchasing, quality, in\\-house production, marketing, digital and the other departments.\*\* \* Work hand in hand with these departments at every stage of development, so that projects move forward together from concept to production. \* Bring the R\\\&D view into product, cost and launch decisions. \*\*Help develop relationships with suppliers and partners, from industrialisation to universities, labs and technology companies.\*\* \* Work with our current development partners and suppliers. \* Bring in new partners: universities, research labs and technology companies. \*\*Your profile\*\* \* Engineering degree. \* Confident daily user of AI tools, with a strong interest in their impact on product development. \* Good understanding of IoT data and how it can be managed and used. \* Strong interest in robotics. In\\-depth expertise in humanoid robotics is not required. \* Fluent English; French is an asset. \* Willingness to travel when required. \*\*Experience required\*\* \* Solid experience in a similar role, and a real passion for product development and innovation. \* You have personally led developments, worked with suppliers and brought products to market. \* Experience in industrialisation with suppliers: moving a product from development into series production. \* You know how to find, negotiate and run partnerships with universities, labs and tech companies. \*\*Your personality and soft skills\*\* \* You are a hands\\-on engineering leader who enjoys building products and turning ideas into solutions people can use every day. \* You have strong communication and interpersonal skills and can engage effectively with teams and stakeholders at every level. \* You demonstrate excellent project management skills. \* You enjoy working closely with a visionary co\\-CEO and translating ambitious ideas into realistic and actionable plans. \* You are results\\-driven and motivated by seeing projects reach completion and products successfully enter the market. \*\*What we offer\*\* \* The opportunity to lead R\\\&D within an innovative, international and family\\-owned Swiss company. \* A hands\\-on role combining R\\\&D team management, product development and innovation. \* Direct collaboration with the co\\-CEO and close interaction with teams across the organization. \* The opportunity to shape the use of AI, IoT and robotics within Laurastar's products and development processes. \* A multicultural work environment with access to an external network of universities, laboratories and technology partners. \*\*Ready to make an impact?\*\* Join Laurastar and lead the development of the products and technologies that will shape the future of fabric care and steam cleaning. Apply now !\[Laurastar SA\]( ) \* Laurastar SA Route de Montreux 149 1618 Châtel\\-St\\-Denis \* \[ \](\< \>) jpidd5ace3cjm jpit1145jm jpiy26jm