Tiffany & Co. Analyst - Development

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
  
• 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)
• 1-3 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

Preferred Qualifications

• Comfortable with daily use of intermediate excel
• Project Management system
• Process Engineering

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.