Manager - Design

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. Process. Process Adherence. Complies with company defined guidelines and processes. Adheres to project timelines. Process compliance. 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.
• 5. People Management and Development. 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.

Qualifications

• Education: B. Arch/ M.Arch.
• Work Experience: 6-8 years.

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