Design Manager

Job Description

Role Summary:

Your Roles & Responsibilities :

Strategic / Customer centric

1. Design enhancement (Customer Joy)

• Review and verification of designs proposed by the external architects at regions ensuring customer centric design and compliance to standard design principles
• Interfaces with regional design teams and HO teams
• Assess integration of relevant innovations to create differentiation based on the micro market pain points
• Understanding of GPL regions, the customer requirement of the region and future trends
• Customer friendly product compliant with GPL standards in scheduled time
• Designs should include relevant innovations to create differentiation
• Timely response

2. Strategic Projects

• Identify inefficiencies in the prevailing processes and working at project level (including sites) and approach the resolution through strategic project
• Assess cost benefit analysis of strategic project including the problems that it will solve to make a case to management for project funding
• Assessment of relevant partners to collaborate with external and internal stakeholders to complete the project
• Continuous assessment of regional markets & competition to gauge what is required for GPL to stay ahead of the competition
• Implementation of ongoing strategic projects such as Standardization in regions and projects to create consistency across all GPL regions
• Accuracy
• Comprehensiveness
• Timeliness as defined basis organizational goals

3. Technological Integration

• Identify inefficiencies in the prevailing processes and assess/ adopt resolution through integration of advanced technology
• Assessment of new technology available in the market and how & if it can create value for GPL.
• Adoption of relevant technologies to provide GPL the 1st mover advantage in the market and exponentially transform the business wrt time, cost, quality
• Relevance to GPL
• Depth of analysis and adoption plan for GPL business
• Turnaround time in alignment with business targets

4. R&D

• Design thinking approach
• Continuous research of real estate and correlated industries, design concepts, materials, technologies etc to assess adoption within GPL to create value for business and customer
• Relevance to GPL
• Depth of analysis and adoption plan for GPL business
• Turnaround time in alignment with business targets

Process

1. Process Adherence

• • Complies with company defined guidelines and processes
• • Adheres to project timelines
• Process compliance

2. Process Improvement

• • Identify subject matter experts (external consultants) who will bring value to GPL and create a pool of empanelled consultants for onboarding on regional projects
• • Identifies processes/ procedures in own work area that need improvement
• • Recommends process improvement ideas to streamline efficiency/costs/productivity
• • Undertakes process improvement activities in own work area
• Initiatives taken
• Impact of process improvement ideas

People Management and Development

1. Learning and Development

• Identifies self-development needs
• Takes concrete steps to pursue self-development/ upskilling on-job and through training, education, projects etc.
• New skills acquired

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