Senior Lead Design Manager - DPM

Mahindra And Mahindra Ltd.; Mumbai; On-site; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Mahindra And Mahindra Ltd. is seeking a Senior Design Manager in Mumbai to lead planning and execution of design activities across multiple projects.

You will coordinate information across the Design Department, ensuring alignment with QCDP parameters and feasibility considerations, and present design milestones to stakeholders. The role involves ensuring integration of cross-functional inputs from Exterior, Interior, and C&M teams, steering design convergence, and planning annual workload,

Qualifications

• Plan and execute all design activities across projects.
• Coordinate information impacting design development (QCDP, architecture, feasibility).
• Present design progress and milestones to top management.

Responsibilities

• Plan yearly workload and design resources for projects and manage budgets.
• Oversee project organization within Design and ensure alignment with development processes.
• Relay project orientations to Designers and develop actionable integration plans.

Job description

• Planning & execution of all design activities of projects (design, development, prototyping and validation) in collaboration with team members. Deliver the design in totality to stakeholders, respecting QCD parameters as defined in each project.
• To collect and disseminate within the Design Department all the information impacting the development of the projects (QCDP, USP + Basics, services, architecture, feasibility, etc.)
• To oversee the general organization of the project in Design while respecting the development process, to participate in the elaboration of business case and development schedules for his project and alerts on any budget / planning drifts.
• To ensure that the pre-requisites issued by the other departments involved in its projects are well considered by the Exterior/Interior/C&M designers. To relays the orientations of the project and develop an action plan or a framework for their good integration by the Designers.
• To reconcile the design choices and the objectives of the project, promoting balanced trade-offs between Design and its partners.
• To steer Design convergence by ensuring that the expected parameters and criteria are met, fulfil the quality requirements for each milestone, and endorses the nature of the commitment delivered at the milestone.
• Planning & strategy of yearly project workload & workforce, budget & entry ticket, hardware & software resources, subcontracted activities etc. To manage and anticipate the risks and hazards of the project.
• Report & present the design project to corporate design & all regional stakeholders periodically. To alert hierarchy of any deviation and keeping the other members of the project team informed.
• Make design presentation to Design top management at various stages.