About Lifestyle Design
Our continuous journey to transform some excellences into an integrated group, leading at a global level the high-end furniture market, started in 2014 when Haworth acquired Poltrona Frau Group. Lifestyle Design is now a federation of 10 Brands: Poltrona Frau, Cassina, Cappellini, Ceccotti Collezioni, Karakter, Luminaire, Janus et Cie, Luxury Living Group, Interni, and Zanotta, with 1,900 employees worldwide. We operate in over 75 countries, with 80 Showrooms.
Role and Activities
The person will be part of the Operations Excellence team, a cross-Brand unit with global scope within Lifestyle Design, whose mission is to identify, prioritize, and launch performance improvement opportunities across the various Brands. Most of the initiatives will be project-based and will require intensive cooperation with a large number of colleagues.
Examples of areas in scope (illustrative, definitely not exhaustive):
- Detailed benchmarking of product cost and performance, both internally and with competitors
- Preparation of cost vs. price analyses to support negotiations with suppliers on various categories
- Build-up of the global logistic model (i.e., flows, warehouses) to optimize cost and service level to customers
- Development of tailored indicators to measure industrial performance
Experience and Education- Engineering (any type)
- Economics, but with a strong personal interest in industrial and manufacturing topics
- Fluency in both Italian and English
Technical and Soft Skills- Problem-solving ability: structuring and prioritizing
- Numerical agility
- Intellectual curiosity
- Business judgment
- Open and extrovert attitude, ability to deal effectively with colleagues of very different backgrounds
Work Location: Milan
Our company is an equal opportunity employer.
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