Influential, innovative and progressive, Gucci is reinventing a wholly modern approach to fashion. Under the new vision of creative director Alessandro Michele, the House has redefined luxury for the 21st century, further reinforcing its position as one of the world’s most desirable fashion houses. Eclectic, contemporary, romantic—Gucci products represent the pinnacle of Italian craftsmanship and are unsurpassed for their quality and attention to detail. Gucci is part of the Kering Group, a world leader in apparel and accessories that owns a portfolio of powerful luxury and sport and lifestyle brands.

Your opportunity 

As part of the Industrial Excellence Team, you will contribute to implement the new RTW strategic and operational development plan, defined by an internal organizational assessment that identified several areas for improvement.

You will be contributor for the continuous improvement initiatives of industrial operations streams, striving to increase efficiency, productivity and quality of the processes.

You will work closely with all internal functions (product development, purchasing, production, logistics and business information and technology), defining project roadmaps and leading the teams towards optimization.

How you will contribute

• Supporting the Industrial Excellence Manager, you will coordinate specific projects and roadmaps with an end-to-end responsibility

• Conduct regular assessment of improvement opportunities and drive associated actions in order to reach best practice in the industry and adopt new technologies

• Work closely with the functional teams to optimize all intermediate stages of the process, from demand collection, master data entry to production planning and follow-up, vendor rating and claims management

• Evaluate, design and implement new potential organizational models, tools and reporting systems that focus on production planning efficiency, collaborating with the Industrial Excellence Manager and the functional and IT teams

• Support improvement efforts by assessing and prioritizing the improvement activities

• Identify clear efficiency and quality metrics for our production process, including internal client satisfaction

• Create and update the document base (technical files, processes and procedures etc.)

Who you are

• Master’s in Management Engineering, preferably, and 3 to 4 years’ experience in project management

• Lean Six Sigma Certification (or equivalent) will be considered as a plus

• Forward-thinker with proven ability to quickly learn new processes, concepts, and software

• Proven organizational agility and a global mindset to be able to work in all locations, functions, and levels of the organization

• Business acumen and financial awareness

• Empathetic and customer-driven product developer; effective listener that builds products aimed at solving customer and business problems, and improving user experience

• Resilient and adaptable: able to deal with changing environments, overcome obstacles and manage uncertain scopes & timings

• Value-based decision maker that takes measured risks to deliver business objectives

• Effective communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to unite teams

• Fluent in both English and Italian