Analyst - Development

Inside Lvmh; New York (NY); On-site; USD 77,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Inside LVMH is seeking a Development Analyst to support end-to-end product development by tracking milestones, surfacing risks, and coordinating cross-functional teams across Product Marketing, Design, Industrial, Planning, and suppliers to maintain momentum.

You will build development timelines, manage risk through governance, and ensure readiness before milestones while developing fluency in jewelry workflows and manufacturing processes to support escalation and execution.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., PM, Business, Industrial).
• 2+ years of development or project management experience.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.
• Comfort speaking about technical topics with stakeholders.
• Proficient in intermediate Excel usage and data handling.
• Understanding of jewelry development or manufacturing processes.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain development timelines, milestones, and dashboards.
• Identify risks, bottlenecks, and overdue dependencies early.
• Escalate blockers through governance channels and prepare updates.
• Coordinate cross-functional handoffs and ensure timely information flow.
• Support stage-gate readiness and ensure required approvals.
• Partner with multiple teams to drive business needs and resolution.

Skills

Project coordination

Stakeholder communication

Attention to detail

Team collaboration

Technical communication

Process understanding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Excel

Job description

The Development Analyst supports the end-to-end development process by driving visibility, coordination, and operational discipline across development teams. This role helps maintain development momentum by tracking milestones, surfacing risks, organizing decision-making, and ensuring cross-functional alignment throughout the product lifecycle. The Analyst is not expected to serve as the technical decision-maker but must build strong working knowledge of development workflows, engineering dependencies, and manufacturing processes to support effective escalation and execution.

Key Accountabilities

Development Execution Support:

• Create and maintain development timelines, milestone trackers, and project status dashboard
• 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
• 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 dependenciesSupport issue resolution through structured escalation

Risk Identification & Escalation:

• 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

The hiring range for this position ranges from $77,000 - $85,000. The rate of pay offered will be dependent upon candidates' relevant skills and experience.