Manager - Design

Godrej Industries Group; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Flexible work options

Remote working

Equal opportunities

Parental leave benefits

Job summary

Godrej Industries Group seeks an experienced architect for roles spanning design enhancements, regional coordination, and strategic projects within the GPL framework. You will align design proposals with GPL standards, integrate regional customer requirements, and drive value through innovative, timely delivery.

Ideal candidates have 6–8 years of experience in architecture, strong stakeholder interaction skills, and a passion for design thinking that differentiates GPL offerings.

Qualifications

• Degree in architecture or related field.
• 6–8 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with design thinking and customer-centric design.

Responsibilities

• Design enhancements with a focus on customer joy.
• Review external architect designs for GPL standards.
• Coordinate with regional design teams and HO teams.
• Assess innovations to differentiate GPL regions.
• Ensure timely and cost-effective project delivery.

Skills

Design review

Stakeholder management

Project management

Innovation assessment

Education

B.Arch / M.Arch

Job description

• Comprehensiveness

Job Requirements

About Godrej Industries Group (GIG)

At the Godrej Industries Group, we are privileged to serve over 1.1 billion consumers globally through our businesses with market leadership positions in the consumer products, real estate, agriculture, financial services and chemicals industries

www.godrejindustries.com

About Godrej Properties Limited (GPL)

Godrej Properties brings the Godrej Group philosophy of innovation, sustainability, and excellence to the real estate industry. Each Godrej Properties development combines the over 125+ year legacy of excellence and trust with a commitment to cutting-edge design, technology, and sustainability.

www.godrejproperties.com

About The Role

Your Roles & Responsibilities :

Strategic / Customer centric

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

• 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/productivityUndertakes process improvement activities in own work area
• Initiatives taken
• Impact of process improvement ideas

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

Who are we looking for?

Education

B. Arch/ M.Arch.

Work Experience

6-8 years

Benefits

What’s in it for you?

• Be an equal parent
• Childcare benefits for the birthing parent, commissioning parent (in case of surrogacy) or adoptive parent, and their partners
• 6 months of paid leave for primary caregivers, flexible work options on return for primary caregivers
• 2 months paid leave for secondary caregivers
• Caregiver travel for primary caregivers to bring a caregiver and children under a year old, on work travel
• Coverage for childbirth and fertility treatment
• No place for discrimination at Godrej
• Gender-neutral anti-harassment policy
• Same sex partner benefits at par with married spouses
• Coverage for gender reassignment surgery and hormone replacement therapy
• Community partnerships and advocacy
• Persons with Disability (PwD) care
• We are selfish about your wellness
• Comprehensive health insurance plans, as well as accident coverage for you and your family, with top-up options
• Elder care for those who might need to extend support to senior family members
• Preventative healthcare support
• Outpatient Department (OPD) coverage, including vaccinations, dental, vision, etc.
• Uncapped sick leave
• Flexible work options, including remote working and part-time work
• Mental wellness and self-care programmes, resources and counselling
• Celebrating wins, the Godrej Way
• Structured recognition platforms for individual, team and business-level achievements
• Digital and offline instant recognition platforms

An inclusive Godrej

Before you go, there is something important we want to highlight. There is no place for discrimination at Godrej. Diversity is the philosophy of who we are as a company. And has been for over a century. It’s not just in our DNA and nice to do. Being more diverse - especially having our team members reflect the diversity of our businesses and communities - helps us innovate better and grow faster. We hope this resonates with you.

We take pride in being an equal opportunities employer. We recognize merit and encourage diversity. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination on the basis of nationality, race, color, religion, caste, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, age, or marital status and ensure equal opportunities for all our team members.

We look forward to meeting you.