Analyst – Development

Key Accountabilities

Development Execution Support:

Create and maintain development timelines, milestone trackers, and project status dashboard
Track progress across active development launches
Identify timeline risks, bottlenecks, and overdue dependencies
Escalate blockers through defined governance channels
Prepare development status updates and meeting materials
Development Governance:

Oversee and manage stone inventory needs for projects; including stone requests, work order creation, work order clean up, bill of material set up and PO requests
Support stage-gate readiness tracking
Confirm required approvals and deliverables are completed before milestone transitions
Maintain centralized documentation for development decisions
Help standardize reporting, templates, and development workflows
Improve process visibility and accountability
Cross-functional Collaboration:

Partner closely with Product Marketing, Design, JDIW, Industrial, Planning, GA/DD and external suppliers to drive business needs
Effectively Coordinate information flow across teams
Ensure development milestone handoffs are complete and timely
Track action items and ownership from development meetings following through on open dependencies
Support issue resolution through structured escalation
Risk Identification & Escalation:

Monitor development plans for schedule risk
Identify missing information, unresolved dependencies, or conflicting priorities
Escalate issues early when timelines or deliverables are at risk
Partner with PD Manager & Director / engineering leads to assess impact
Product/Technical Learning:

Build enough fluency to recognize operational risk and coordinate effectively continue to develop working knowledge of:
Jewelry development lifecycle
Technical workflows & prototype development
Supplier dependencies
Readiness milestones
Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in related field (i.e., Project Management, Business, Merchandising, Industrial or Process Engineering)
2+ years of prior relevant Development or Project Management experience
Skilled in Project Development with the ability to manage multiple projects at once
Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
Strong organizational details and attention to detail
Comfort speaking to technical topics
Comfortable with daily use of intermediate Excel
Understanding of the physical process of product creation

Preferred Qualifications

Familiarity with jewelry manufacturing
Project Management and collaboration system knowledge