Sr. Lead - Design

Department:

Location

Organizational relationships

• Reports to: Director
• Supervises: Sr. Designers, Designers
• Functional relationship with: Creative Head / Project in Charges/ Directors

Academic qualification

• Essential:

  B Arch, or / Bachelors in interior design

• Desired:

  Bachelor in interior design

Experience

• Relevant:

  10-12 yrs

• Total:

  15 yrs

Salary:

Soft Skills

• Effective Leadership and Team management skills
• Effective communication skills (written & verbal)
• Excellent Inter-personal skills
• Effective conflict management skills
• Effective time management skills
•  Highly motivated self starter
• Sharp business acumen
• Lateral thinking
• Creative Thinking

Technical Skills

•  Mapping client needs
• Creative Design concept understanding
• Commercial viability 
• Understanding of Services (MEP)
• Product/ Service Knowledge with constant up-gradation
• Software typically use such as Auto cad, MS-office, Lumion preferred

Primary Responsibilities

1. Strategic Planning

• To be a part of the Strategy team in order to identify, evaluate and implement new lucrative business propositions (new product/ service /market). To be responsible for new product/ service conceptualization
• To design team goals and ensure the attainment of the same.
• To ensure development and implementation of Product/Service & Brand related strategies as per objectives agreed with management and navigate strategy from time to time in response to changing internal/ external business context.

1. Market Planning & Diversification

• To deploy suitable market research tools to gauge the business landscape and competitor activities, client requirement etc., to gain the competitive edge.
• Participate in creating a business plan in tandem with leadership team.
• Communicate the concept and design plan to all levels within the team.
• Be part of the ‘Project Team’ at pitching stage and endeavour to bring the interaction to a positive closure.

1. Delivery/Operations

• Participate and give inputs to operations team when creating project plan. Pre-empt execution bottlenecks on design front & align the appropriate strategy as and when required.
• Allocate able personnel in a timely manner to support operations team for assessing feasibility.
• Assist the Project lead in understanding the client’s requirements. Ensure the same is understood accurately by consultants and the designs sent by consultants are in tandem with the brief.
• To provide design direction and brief to the team of designers working on the project and handholding them throughout the design process.
• Ensure that all the drawings, plans, views, mock ups, demos etc are received refined and shared with client according to timelines agreed.
• Mitigate any redesign ideas with client, bring to clients notice and agree the cost and time escalations due to such redesign.
• To provide inputs for designing and implementing systems, processes and procedures to facilitate smooth functioning of overall operations and enhance operational efficiency.
• To set up reporting systems for design team.
• To review client-wise weekly project report to assess adherence to the SLA & efficiency & to take suitable corrective/ preventive steps.
• To review client-wise design related resource allocation & utilization & take efficiency enhancement measures.

1. Client Relationship Management

• To ensure that client requirements are captured, understood, agreed and delivered in a manner which creates value addition proposition and builds positive client perception by engaging in constant expectation setting with client organization at all levels required.
• To ensure that the client feels involved and engaged throughout the designing and execution process thereby feeling that they are getting what they desire.
• Connecting to the appropriate authority and making recommendations to a positive outcome.

Environmental Condition

The person in this position may need to travel extensively.