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 innovat