Global Manufacturing Director

Global Manufacturing Director focuses on own the journey from validated design to finished piece, ensuring output meets both client expectation and business rhythm.

What the role involves

• Own the journey from validated design to finished piece, ensuring output meets both client expectation and business rhythm.
• Balance in-house craft with a curated network of external partners, maintaining control over quality, pace, and reliability.
• Overseeing the execution of bespoke and high-value orders, bringing technical clarity and confidence to complex pieces.
• Define and protect finishing and quality benchmarks across all categories, ensuring consistency regardless of origin.
• Maintaining discipline around production cost without compromising on materiality or craftsmanship.
• Introduce structure to capacity, timelines, and delivery, resolving constraints ahead of impact.

Confirmed role details

• Design-led fine jewellery house to appoint a Global Manufacturing Director.
• This is a pivotal leadership role overseeing end-to-end production across multiple regions, with responsibility for translating exceptional design into flawlessly executed pieces a.
• This is a senior, highly trusted role, responsible for shaping and leading the production landscape behind a design-led, craft-driven business.
• The position requires a rare balance of technical depth, operational clarity, and sensitivity to product.