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POSITION: Interior Design Senior Manager

POSTING END DATE: 30th July 2023

LOCATION: Gaydon (UK)

SALARY: Competitive

Jaguar Land Rover is evolving into “JLR”, a “House of Brands” comprising of four distinct British brands – Range Rover, Jaguar, Defender and Discovery.

Our purpose is to ‘Live the Exceptional with Soul’ by being the proud creators of modern luxury and being guided by a set of behaviours we call our Creators’ Code: Customer Love; Unity; Integrity; Growth; Impact.

WHAT TO EXPECT

These roles form part of an exciting opportunity to join the newly created team; Senior Manager, Interior (Jaguar), Senior Manager, Interior (Range Rover), Senior Manager, Interior (Discovery).

The purpose of each role is to lead the entire Interior Design process for each House of Brands vehicles, working closely with the Head of Interior to inform a holistic view across the House of Brands to ensure brand differentiation and alignment to Business objectives. Creating the most desirable and distinctive products and exceptional client experiences, underpinning the ReImagine strategy.

THE ROLE

Key Responsibilities

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  Strategic and Creative leadership for Interior Design integrating Now, Next and Future commodity strategies. Focusing on holistic client experiences through new architecture commodities, new services and Digital strategies.
• Leading the Interior Design for all (House of Brand) programmes with an Agile mindset and on time delivery for Core Production and Special Vehicle deliverables in line with the company purpose.
• Partner with the Design Quality Organisation to ensure successful delivery of design component quality and on time data release. Ensure there is understanding of technology requirements and collaborate on how to define quality standards moving forward.
• Support to define and deliver Design Academy training to create a talent pipeline that brings new creatives into the Interior Design Organisation.
• Work in close collaboration with other Brand Interior leads to ensure right level of commonality and differentiation across the Brand Teams.
• A multi-discipline approach will be required with Exterior, Materiality, Quality, Physical and Digital modelling teams to ensure successful delivery of Design Intent.
• Flexibility according to Business priorities for sharing resource across the House of Brands Design disciplines.
• Active recruitment of new talent and capabilities into Design teams.

Key Performance Indicators

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  Interior Design contribution/releases are on time for Programs
• Creativity for Interior Design and new technology integration is delivered to benchmark levels (award winning design)
• Proof of collaboration and Co-Creation with project squads and other House of Brand Interior leads
• Employee Net Promoter Score
• Delivering into Business Sustainability targets

Key Interactions

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  3D Modellers and Clay Modellers
• Colour & material designers
• Technical
• Digital Creative UX / UI team
• Product Engineering, Electrical, Off-cycle and Research teams
• Marketing
• Product Strategy

WHAT YOU’LL NEED

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

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  Proven previous technical experience and ability in illustration and visual evaluation skills to visually and verbally communicate ideas and solutions.
• Proven experience of aesthetic judgement of surface, surface juxtaposition and appearance gained in a similar role.
• Broad knowledge of engineering and production techniques and processes, and strong market / business acumen.
• Previous experience of the generation of designs for production and concept vehicles, including experience of visualising and communicating design solutions in 2D and 3D.
• Strong IT skills, particularly with Design related systems, e.g. ALIAS / VRED / Photoshop / Power-Point.
• Strong understanding of surfacing requirements.
• Knowledge of design roles, from concept generation to production ready design delivery.
• Relevant degree or equivalent experience preferred.

Personal Profile

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  Demonstrates our Creators' Code behaviours of Customer Love, Unity, Integrity, Growth and Impact.
• A sophisticated communicator who is able to communicate directly, clearly and openly.
• An individual who can demonstrate good capability in leadership and management skills, who can motivate, develop and lead functional and cross-functional teams.

#WEAREJLR

At Jaguar Land Rover, we are passionate about our people. They are at the heart of our business. We are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive culture that is representative of our global customers and the society in which we live; a culture in which every one of our employees can bring their authentic self to work and reach their full potential.

You will find the opportunities to further your career with a world-class team, access to select two of our luxury premium vehicles to lease at an extremely favourable cost compared to traditional company car lease schemes, membership of a competitive pension plan, private medical cover (which includes travel insurance) and performance related bonus scheme. All this and more makes Jaguar Land Rover the perfect place to continue your journey.

Please be aware that we may close this vacancy for applications before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of interest. We strongly advise you to submit your application as early as possible.