Director, Collections & Innovation, Diamonds

Director, Collections & Innovation, Diamonds  

Are you a forward-thinking marketing professional passionate about driving growth and innovation? Join the world’s leading jewelry brand and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Pandora, the lab-grown diamonds category, and the jewelry industry at large! 

The Role

As Director, Collections & Innovation, Diamonds your responsibilities will be integral to Pandora's Global Marketing Function and pivotal in establishing and expanding the lab-grown Diamonds and accessible fine categories. You will be responsible for leading the short- and long-term product and collection strategy, building a performant and exciting portfolio of collections and products, and leading the development of positioning and storytelling for each. 

In this role you will lead a team and partner closely with other business areas such as Design and Merchandising/Assortment Planning – building a highly productive and collaborative relationship across disciplines that results in consumer and corporate value. You will also partner closely with other teams such as Consumer Insights, Supply Chain, Brand Experience and Finance. 

Key Responsibilities Include:

• Lead development of high-impact, collection-based product initiatives aligned with global marketing cycles, driving cross-functional execution. 
• Define and maintain a three-year product strategy and innovation roadmap, ensuring annual alignment with senior leadership. 
• Partner with Marketing, Media, PR, Influencer, Design, Visual Merchandising, and local market teams to deliver cohesive, consumer-focused plans that elevate the category and key products. 
• Develop, mentor, and support your team to achieve business goals and foster professional growth. 
• Apply creative thinking, consumer and competitive insights, and strategic problem-solving to all aspects of the work.  

Personal & Professional Competencies:

As a Director in the Collections and Innovation team, you understand how to navigate a large, global matrix organization while operating in a highly entrepreneurial manner. You are a self-starter who identifies areas of opportunity and drives efficiencies, processes, global strategies and goals forward with cross-functional stakeholders and clients. Furthermore, we hope to see: 

• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business Administration or similar 
• 10+ years of related professional brand and product marketing experience within a global organization 
• International experience from global environments within the fashion, jewelry, beauty or retail industries.    
• Previous experience in new business/new category development fine jewelry and/or Diamonds  
• Proven success in developing successful collections demonstrating strong product knowledge, market insight, consumer centricity and end-to-end ownership; This includes a collection architecture and pricing strategy which articulates your business strategy and ensures consumer needs are met. 
• Established leadership experience with proven ability to inspire, coach and manage teams toward achieving strategic and performance objectives 
• Outstanding written and verbal communications skills, including the ability to develop clear, insightful PowerPoint presentations, internal briefs and reports. 

Your New Team

Pandora offers an exciting and challenging role in a fast-moving, international environment. You will be part of a dynamic team, working in close cooperation with a strong organization where quality and integrity are significant qualities. We are a dynamic organization where we are guided by four values: We dream, We dare, We care and We deliver on our promises to colleagues, customers, partners and stakeholders. 

You will lead a small team and report directly to the VP Innovation, Modern Classics collections & Services. 

Did we get your attention?  

If you see yourself in the position and would like to become a part of Pandora’s future, please do not hesitate to apply. We look forward to hearing from you! 

We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about Pandora on our corporate site www.pandoragroup.com. 

Icing on the cake  

You will be working out of our beautiful Head Office in Copenhagen V, established in 2016 and designed to unite and inspire our teams. Besides our beautiful interior design we are also proud of our LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design. This means that we use as few natural resources as possible and that we use them with respect. The result is a professional and dynamic space that is unique, comfortable and inspirational – and delivers a true Pandora experience to anyone who works here or comes to visit. 

About Pandora

Pandora is the world's largest jewelry brand, specializing in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewelry made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewelry. Pandora jewelry is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.   

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewelry using only recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.   

At Pandora, we believe that creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and reflecting societal diversity in our customer engagement is essential to delivering on our company purpose: to give a voice to people’s loves. We dedicate ourselves to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and diversity where everyone feels respected and valued.