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POSITION: Senior Manager, Digital Surface Design

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

This is an exciting opportunity to join our JLR Design team. You will be responsible for all digital modelling activities within Design, driving consistency and seamless process to deliver all digital surface data. Single ownership brings all digital modelling disciplines together to drive cost, time and quality efficiency.

THE ROLE

Key Responsibilities

• Overseeing Operations of;
  • Interior Digital Surfacing
  • Exterior Digital Surfacing
  • Digital Details Surfacing
  • Digital Data Collation
• Ensuring alignment and collaboration between the activities listed above, identifying and solving problems and driving forwards opportunities for improvement.
• Overseeing a team to work on projects and work streams; from scoping to delivery and including cross-functional engagement and stakeholder management ensuring project delivery to required timescale, quality and cost.
• Creation of all A-surface geometry up to and including, final production surface release. Partnering with all Design disciplines, and the wider business, to ensure design quality alignment.
• Maintains close working relationship with the Physical Modelling team throughout all stages of design.
• Support to define and deliver Design Academy training to bring new creatives into the Digital Modelling Organisation.

Key Performance Indicators

• Deliver programmes on Time and to Cost
• Sustainability
• Innovation
• Safety (Lost Time Incidents)
• Employee Net Promoter Score
• Digital Surface Release on time
• Number of surface modifications per part
• Digital Surface Quality Standards

Key Interactions

• Physical Modelling team
• Exterior & Interior Design, Materiality
• Digital Creative UX/UI Team
• Quality
• Technical
• Engineering teams
• External suppliers

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• Ability to deliver all digital assets working within the design budget.
• Flexibility, forward thinking, good communication skills and an eye for detail.
• Ability to implement and adapt to new technologies being introduced to the Digital Modelling process.
• Digital Modelling expertise - strong knowledge and experience of overseeing Digital Modelling teams.
• People skills - able to lead and motivate the digital modelling team to help deliver world class digital data sets beginning with the initial creative stage through to the final production release.
• Awareness of current and future creative tools. (ALIAS / VRED / Adobe suite / Blender and other new AI software).
• Recruit and retain capabilities from across analogous industries.

Personal Profile

• 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.