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For more than 46 years, the Laurastar Group has combined innovation, ambition, and excellence to create long\-lasting products that beautify and purify your clothes and home. The family\-owned Swiss group’s expertise now extends from ironing and fabric care to hygienic steam systems aimed at creating a healthier home for you and your loved ones. Thanks to its unique Dry Microfine Steam DMS technology, Laurastar is the world leader in high\-end steam systems, with over 3 million products sold in over 40 countries worldwide. In Switzerland, where the Group’s headquarters are located, almost a quarter of households own at least one of the brand’s most popular products. Laurastar employs around 280 employees, including its subsidiaries in Germany, France, Benelux and Hungary.Our motivated, well\-trained, hard\-working, result\-oriented employees are the foundation of our success.If you would like to contribute to this success, we look forward to meeting you!To strengthen our R\&D team at our headquarters in Châtel\-St\-Denis, we are looking for our future,**Global R\&D Manager**Reporting directly to Julie Monney, co\-CEO, you will lead Laurastar’s R\&D activities and turn the company’s product vision into innovative products and services brought successfully to market. You will manage our R\&D team while driving current product development and future innovation in parallel.You will also play a key role in integrating AI, IoT and robotics into our products, services and ways of working, in close collaboration with internal departments, suppliers, universities, laboratories and technology partners.**Your key responsibilities****Manage the R\&D teamand turn the company’s product vision into products and services on the market.*** Supervise the R\&D team: priorities, coaching, technical decisions.* Run several development projects in parallel, from concept to market launch, on time and on budget.* Own the R\&D budget and the product development roadmap.**Run current product