Assistant General Manager - Design - Global Engineering Services Firm

Assistant General Manager - Design for a global engineering services firm

About the client :

Our client is a large Engineering Services Outsourcing and Product Development IT services company offering services in engineering and design, product life-cycle management, manufacturing, product development, and IT service management to automotive and aerospace original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers

Key Responsibilities :

Job Description :

- Lead the project from start of the project to launch.

- Ensure timely delivery of all key milestones for delivery from Pune or other studios.

- Ensure the delivery of the project with key attributes defined during the start of the project

- Represent design in cross functional teams

Key Responsibilities :

- Lead the project from start of the project to launch.

- Prepare a Project Schedule and resource (manpower, models, etc.) plan at beginning of every new project. Dovetail the same with overall Program schedule

- Ensure timely delivery of all key milestones for delivery from Pune or other studios.

- Be the face of Design for all meetings with Engineering, suppliers, Marketing/Product Planning and also the communication channel for the same.

- Along with the Lead designer # manage the Design feasibility discussion with Engineering and suppliers.

- Model / prototype planning and tracking

- Undertaking Consumer and Design trends as well as Competition bench-marking for specific platforms you are responsible for.

- Giving inputs to designers and modelers for compliance to Engineering feasibility and technical constraints.

Expected Domain Skills :

- Design

- Automotive Manufacturing and engineering

- Project management

- Consumer behavior and trends