Vertical Head Industrial Design Job Purpose: To drive industrial design function for Consumer Products and Lighting businesses for NPD and platform upgrade projects. Drive excellence in ID to achieve desired product novelty, faster time-to-market and cost competitiveness in line with company's brand language and platform strategies. Responsibilities: - Collaborate with Marketing, Program Management, Engineering, and Sales to define the design brief that includes concepts, performance, and production criteria - Develop design concepts for Consumer Products and Lighting Solutions using advanced industrial design tools and techniques. - Responsible for translating the design language into the product concepts, ensuring that the proposed concepts meet the desired cost, technical feasibility, and manufacturability criteria - Partner with engineering teams to refine the concept models into commercially saleable designs. Effectively handover the designs to PMO/engineering for further development and commercialization. - Develop rapid prototyping, mock-ups and functional prototypes wherever needed to demonstrate the design concepts and functionality - Collaborate with Consumer Research teams for market studies, consumer needs and wants, usage behaviors and competitive benchmarking - Review designs periodically with Technology leader and BU heads / Marketing heads to drive DLS compliance and competitiveness - Manage the content and quality of the ID work either from inhouse teams or from outsourced strategic partners. As a specialist, review and refine the work content from the internal and external teams. - Drive strategic IP creation like design patents, trade secrets and trademarks in the areas of Industrial design. Encourage the teams in participating in internal and external design contests to create the brand for BEL products. - Responsible for building best-in class industrial design team including talent development, infrastructure development and capabilities enhancement. Responsible for onboarding, retaining and grooming talent in the ID organization EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS: - Masters in Design or Architecture from tier-1 school with specialization in industrial design. WORK EXPERIENCE : - 15-20 years of full-time experience in developing novel product industrial designs - At least 5 years of experience of independently managing industrial design portfolio and execution (Preferred industries - Consumer Products, Automotive or Healthcare) - In-depth understanding of NPD processes and role of ID in the NPD cycles

Navi Mumbai

Mumbai

Vertical Head - Industrial Design - IIM/ISB/FMS/MDI 

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