MSc Management and Technology Industrial Leadership - Strategic Industries Track

Combining flexible online learning with high-impact experiential modules, the programme immerses you in the realities of industrial leadership. You will work on real projects inspired by industrial organizations, developing the skills needed to manage complex projects, coordinate stakeholders, and drive transformation in technology-driven environments.

Project Management Excellence Pathway

Complex projects are at the heart of today’s industrial organizations. To strengthen your project management capabilities, the programme includes a Project Management Excellence Pathway combining access to a CAPM® Exam Preparation Course and dedicated workshops. The pathway develops competencies in project planning, stakeholder management, risk management, team coordination, and project delivery, while preparing students for the CAPM® certification, a globally recognized credential valued across a wide range of industrial sectors.

This pathway is particularly relevant for students aspiring to careers in project management, PMO, operations, consulting, engineering management, and industrial transformation.

Strategic Industries Track

Access new opportunities or accelerate your career in Strategic Industries through a dedicated track focused on Energy, Infrastructure, Mobility, and Aerospace & Defense.

The track includes:

• Exclusive online sessions with industry leaders and experts exploring key challenges, trends, and opportunities across strategic industries.
• Networking opportunities with professionals and executives from sectors facing significant transformation and talent shortages.
• The possibility to orient your Consulting Project toward a strategic industry challenge.
• The possibility to focus your Research Case Study on a topic related to Energy, Infrastructure, Mobility, or Aerospace & Defense.
• The Versailles Project: A historical geopolitical negotiation simulation inspired by the post-World War I peace negotiations.

Through this immersive role-playing exercise, participants represent different countries and negotiate competing political, economic, and industrial interests, developing leadership, negotiation, stakeholder management, and strategic decision-making skills.

The simulation mirrors many of the challenges faced by leaders in the Energy, Infrastructure, Mobility, and Aerospace & Defense sectors, where major projects often involve geopolitical interests, sovereignty and strategic autonomy issues, international negotiations, Critical resources and supply security and multiple stakeholders with competing objectives. Students will fully understand this context in all its complexity: constraints, deadlines, requirements, risks, and military, economic, human, social, and ideological factors, as well as new and unknown threats.

Participants learn to:

• Build strategic alliances
• Negotiate under constraints and uncertainty
• Balance competing political, economic, and industrial interests
• Make decisions in complex environments and learn to think in the long term
• Managing a group in an unfamiliar environment
• Lead multi-stakeholder initiatives across strategic sectors

Semester 1 : Industrial Leadership in a Transforming World

This semester examines the major forces reshaping industrial sectors and technology-driven organizations. Students explore how global economic shifts, international trade, digital technologies, sustainability challenges, innovation, and new business models are transforming the way industrial organizations compete and create value. Combining perspectives from strategy, finance, marketing, operations, data analytics, human resources, and leadership, the semester develops the cross-functional capabilities required to lead transformation initiatives and make informed decisions in complex industrial environments.

Semester 2 : Industrial Technologies and Innovation

This semester is delivered by Arts et Métiers, one of France’s leading engineering schools, and provides a technical understanding of the technologies and innovation processes shaping modern industry. Students explore the engineering principles, industrial applications, and technological capabilities that support the development of products, systems, and industrial operations. They also learn how to assess emerging technologies through technology monitoring and state-of-the-art reviews. By combining technological expertise with an understanding of industrial innovation, the semester develops the knowledge needed to engage effectively with engineers, technology specialists, and innovation teams in industrial environments.

Semester 3 – Project Management & Industry 4.0.

This semester focuses on the capabilities required to lead complex projects and navigate the technological transformation of modern industry. Students strengthen their expertise in project management, risk management, data-driven decision-making, machine learning, and technology-enabled forecasting and performance improvement. The semester also includes a Project Management Excellence Pathway, combining CAPM® exam preparation and dedicated workshops, as well as an immersive international residency on the Industry of the Future, delivered by Arts et Métiers. By combining project leadership, advanced analytical methods, and exposure to emerging industrial practices, participants develop the skills needed to manage transformation initiatives in industrial and technology-driven environments.

Evaluation: Continuous assessment & Oral presentation

All the modules are to be validated for students to obtain the degree. No possibility to follow a single module for a certificate.

RNCP N°41052

• RNCP41052BC01 – Design and implement an intelligence-gathering system to continuously identify the state of the art in value-creating digital technologies
• RNCP41052BC02 – Demonstrate leadership and unite teams to introduce new cultural paradigms and drive organizational transformation through CSR and digital innovation
• RNCP41052BC03 – Apply research tools and methodologies to generate specialized, application-oriented knowledge
• RNCP41052BC04 – Analyze and assess the environment to develop innovative strategies by evaluating opportunities and risks
• RNCP41052BC05 – Master advanced uses of digital tools to lead technological and sustainable transformations within companies
• RNCP41052BC06 – Promote innovative managerial values and practices to develop creative and sustainable economic activities
• RNCP41052BC07 – Combine management knowledge with entrepreneurial, intrapreneurial, or consulting experience to design new, more sustainable business models
• RNCP41052BC08 – Manage teams, budgets, and projects in an international context by applying English-language proficiency and intercultural competencies

The program offers an 15-month program, with the possibility of extending it over 18 months for greater flexibility.

For better learning efficiency, we have adopted the principle of a course construction by blocks: each week is dedicated to a single course, during which the participants and the professor focus only on the activities of this course. You will follow a pre-established learning path autonomously and be able to interact with your professor freely on the platform. You will have a live online session twice a month with your professor mainly on Saturdays.

This unique experience will give you the opportunity to explore a new way of learning. Our platform, highly customizable and designed to encourage collaboration between students, will provide you with the best online experience for your studies. On this platform, you will find a variety of content: educational activities, videos, tests, necessary documents to follow the courses successfully.

Beyond the support provided by faculty members during their courses, participants benefit from dedicated programme support aimed at promoting student success. Student progress is regularly monitored, and tailored support actions may be implemented when needed, including individual guidance, additional coaching, or adaptations to learning activities and schedules. This approach is designed to maximize flexibility and help participants successfully combine professional responsibilities with academic achievement.

The online modules are available in the digital ecosystem implemented by ESSCA for its online courses to offer participants a dynamic learning experience. The core element is Canvas (Instructure), one of the most widely used LMS (Learning Management System) by universities and schools worldwide. MS Teams is used as a complement for the live sessions.

Face-to-face experiential courses

The face-to-face courses are designed to offer an immersive experience to participants in the facilities with remarkable technological and managerial equipment. The courses provided by ESSCA will take place on the Paris campus and in the offices of partner companies. The Innovation Challenge led by Arts & Métiers will take place at the laboratory of Conception de Produits et Innovation (LCPI) on the Paris campus. Other face-to-face courses will be held on various Arts & Métiers campuses.

Immersive International Learning Experience

During this program, you will have the unique opportunity to participate in a fully immersive learning experience. During your stay, you will attend classes and visit innovative companies leading ecological and digital transformations. This experience will allow you to deepen your knowledge and competence through discussions and sessions with experts and managers in real life situations.

Professional coaching

During the program, you will be accompanied in your professional evolution thanks to coaching and professional mentoring tailored to your profile, your skills and your CV. This coaching will take place in groups and individually with our expert. The objective is to guide you in your professional choices to help you reach the right profession that fits your profile.

Consulting project / entrepreneurial / intrapreneurial

During your project, you will also work on a real case for an organization. This project is the key to your graduation. Through this work, you will be able to apply the different theories and concepts learned during the program.

Research Project: Case Study

You will follow research methodology based on case studies. You will develop academic research skills and learn to use scientific literature to address the challenges of technological and societal transformation and sustainable development. You will be able to choose a study topic that will help you improve your employability.

The MSc Management and Technology Industrial Leadership – Strategic Industries Track is designed for professionals who want to accelerate their careers or transition into industrial sectors facing major transformation and talent shortages.

Unlike general management programs, it adopts an industry-first approach, helping you develop the ability to bridge engineering, operations, technology, and business. You will gain the skills needed to lead complex projects, manage transformation initiatives, and create value in industrial and technology-driven environments.

By combining the management expertise of ESSCA School of Management with the engineering excellence of Arts et Métiers, the program offers a unique blend of business, technology, and industrial perspectives.

Whether you want to advance in your current role or access new opportunities in industry, the program equips you with the knowledge, network, and practical experience needed to become an industrial leader in a rapidly changing world.

• Accelerate your career or transition into industry through a program designed for today’s industrial challenges.
• Develop industrial leadership capabilities to manage projects, teams, and transformation initiatives.
• Build cross-functional expertise at the intersection of engineering, operations, technology, and business.
• Understand the forces reshaping industry, including technological, operational, environmental, and geopolitical transformations.
• Gain exposure to advanced industrial technologies through courses delivered by Arts et Métiers.
• Strengthen your project management credentials through the Project Management Excellence Pathway, including CAPM® exam preparation and dedicated workshops.
• Access new opportunities in high-demand sectors facing significant recruitment needs.
• Specialize through the Strategic Industries Track focused on Energy, Infrastructure, Mobility, and Aerospace & Defense.
• Engage with industry leaders and experts through conferences, networking opportunities, and sector-focused activities.
• Apply your learning to real industrial challenges through consulting and research projects.
• Take part in The Versailles Project, a historical geopolitical negotiation simulation developing leadership, negotiation, stakeholder management, and strategic decision-making skills.
• Expand your professional network across industry, technology, engineering, and management.
• Continue working while earning your degree through a flexible part-time format designed for working professionals.

Looking to transition into a new industry or accelerate your career in your current sector? This program helps you leverage your existing experience while developing the knowledge, skills, and industrial perspective needed to succeed in industries facing major transformation and persistent talent shortages. It prepares you for management and leadership roles across a wide range of industrial and technology-driven sectors, while developing your ability to bridge engineering, operations, technology, and business.

For Technical and Scientific Backgrounds

Engineers, technical specialists, and scientific professionals can strengthen their management and business capabilities while building on their technical expertise.

Typical career opportunities include:

• Technical Project Manager
• Industrial Project Manager
• PMO (Project Management Office)
• Operations Manager
• Production or Industrialization Manager
• Maintenance & Asset Manager
• Innovation Manager
• Technical Product Manager
• Engineering Manager
• Industrial Business Developer
• Industrial Consultant

For experienced professionals, the programme can also support progression toward positions such as:

• Head of Operations
• Head of Industrial Projects
• Head of Engineering
• Plant Manager
• Operations Director
• Technical Director
• Industrial Transformation Director

For Business and Non-Technical Backgrounds

Professionals with business or other non-technical backgrounds can develop the industrial and technological understanding required to access and advance within industrial sectors.

• Strategic Buyer
• Industrial Procurement Manager
• Business Development Manager
• Key Account Manager
• Bid Manager
• PMO
• Industrial Consultant
• Project Coordinator
• Commercial Manager for Industrial Solutions
• Strategy and Transformation Analyst

For experienced professionals, the programme can also support progression toward positions such as:

• Commercial Director
• Business Unit Manager
• Procurement Director
• Strategy Director
• Transformation Director
• Business Development Director
• Industrial Sector Lead

Strategic Industries Opportunities

Students pursuing the Strategic Industries Track can further orient their careers toward sectors with strong investment and recruitment needs, including:

• Energy
• Infrastructure
• Mobility
• Aerospace & Defense

These sectors increasingly seek professionals capable of managing complex projects, coordinating diverse stakeholders, and connecting technical expertise with business decision-making while leading large-scale transformation initiatives.

The MSc Management and Technology – Industrial Leadership & Strategic Industries Track is designed for professionals who want to accelerate their careers, expand their responsibilities, or transition into industrial sectors facing major transformation and persistent talent shortages.

The program welcomes candidates from a wide range of backgrounds who are looking to develop the ability to bridge engineering, operations, technology, and business in complex industrial environments.

This program is particularly suited for:

• Professionals seeking to advance toward management and leadership positions in industrial and technology-driven organizations.
• Engineers, technical specialists, and scientific professionals who want to strengthen their management, strategic, and business capabilities.
• Professionals from business, management, consulting, procurement, sales, marketing, finance, HR, education, public administration, and other non-technical fields looking to access opportunities in industrial sectors.
• Individuals seeking to transition from one industry to another and build expertise relevant to sectors experiencing significant investment, transformation, and recruitment demand.
• Project managers, consultants, operations professionals, and business developers wishing to broaden their impact and leadership responsibilities.
• Entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs interested in innovation, industrial transformation, and technology-driven business opportunities.
• Professionals interested in strategic sectors such as Energy, Infrastructure, Mobility, and Aerospace & Defense.

Whether your goal is to accelerate your career within your current sector or access new opportunities in industry, the programme provides the knowledge, skills, and industrial perspective needed to succeed in a rapidly changing world.

How to apply?

The admission is based on the candidate’s file and, if the admission is favorable, it is confirmed after a jury meeting with a jury committee composed of representatives of the two institutions.

• Click on Register.
• Please create your ID and set up the password.
• Once you access to the platform, click on “APPLICATION” on the top of the page to:
  • fill out the online application form
  • upload the required documents (see the list below).
• Once both are completed and validated by the jury, you will be contacted by email for the next steps.

Tuition fees: 16 000* euros (including rebate)

• Once enrolled, CVEC (Contribution à la Vie Etudiante et de Campus) : €103* (per academic year)
• *Subject to change every year.

No application fee required, apply now by clicking on Register.

Certified by the CEFDG (Commission d’Evaluation des Formations et Diplômes de Gestion – Management Training and Degree Evaluation Commission)

RNCP N°41052

CPF eligible (Compte personnel de formation)

Do not hesitate to contact us for any further information or other questions.

This program is 70% online and 30% experiential.

For 30% of learning experience (1 week per semester), students with reduced mobility will be accompanied.

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