Manager, Technical Jewellery Designer

Pandora Production Co., Ltd. (Prawet)

Prawet

Bangkok, Thailand

Founded in 1982 and headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora is a global jewellery company known for its hand-finished and contemporary jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. Pandora is producing its unique jewellery solely in Thailand. In 2017, Pandora's total revenue was DKK 22.8 billion. With 117 million pieces of jewellery crafted in Thailand in 2017 to be sold in more than 100 countries on six continents through around 7,800 points of sale, Pandora PRODUCTION THAILAND (PPT), the crafting facilities in Thailand, is recognised as the world's largest jewellery manufacturer by the production volume. Pandora has been manufacturing its jewellery in Thailand since 1989 when Per Enevoldsen, Pandora's founder and a goldsmith by trade, set up the foundation for the company's crafting facilities in Bangkok.

About this position

The Manager, Technical Jewellery Designer will work closely with the Global Design team to create innovative product concepts, support product development, and explore new material solutions.

Responsibilities

• Use new and existing materials, techniques, and production capabilities – interpreting these into new product concepts as practical examples for the Global Design team’s awareness and inspiration.
• Receive input, requests, open briefs or mood boards from Global Design and translate it to beautiful products.
• Stay connected with Creative Sourcing, understand what they are searching the market for and help provide partially or fully in-house solutions.
• Be a resource within Product Development team to lend suggestions and solutions, turning technical product challenges into successful products.
• Work collaboratively with Product Engineering on new “complex product” projects.
• Stay connected with team members researching new materials and processes – identify opportunities and product ideas to showcase these new capabilities.
• Connect with material suppliers and collaborate on material design solutions that are cost effective based on their production capabilities.
• Maintain a strong understanding of current in-house production capabilities.

Requirements

• More than 5 years of experience in a jewelry development role.
• Experience working with jewelry manufacturing.
• Prefer engineering background and able to understand and interpret a creative vision.
• Proficiency in Both Thai and English.
• Design thinking from a producibility standpoint.
• Collaboration and Coordination across a large team, with proactive engagement.
• Flexible and cultural adaptive.