Manager - Design (Sculpting)

Purpose of the Position

The incumbent will be responsible for high quality surface release.

 Responsibility/ Activities

- Promote creative 3D sculpting proficiency, can effectively cope with change and manage a team in a fluid environment,

- Assume responsibility of program from start to finish,

- Dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of the customer,

- Motivate people to do their best, empowers others,

- Step up to conflict and find a common ground,

- Provide challenging and stretching tasks and assignments, constructs compelling development plans,

- Have confidence to escalate issues. 

- Can project the development of multiple themes

- Demonstrates and enforces Core Values. 

- Provides relevant information and job expectations to team.

- Understands when and how to remove road blocks. 

- Participates in Leadership meetings,

- Makes decisions in a timely manner without complete information. 

- Maintains professionalism and evokes trust. 

- Demonstrates effective use of time and resources.  Keeps the team focused.

- Manages resources and is actively engaged in the employee’s career development.

- Balance milling over multiple programs, multiple locations, and balance assignments based on skill sets relevant to the GVDP

- Responsible for high quality surface release. 

- Understands and enforces best practices, Attends digital reviews.

 Person Profile Required

 

Professional Qualifications: 

Master’s Degree in Industrial Design from IITs, IISc, NID or other reputed institutes  

 

Professional Experience: 

Candidates from OEMs with min 10 yrs experience and should have managed a team involved in sculpting. He /She should have the functional and technical knowledge and skills to do the job at a high level of accomplishment

 

Personal Characteristics

- Creative

- Good communication skills

- Role model of GM core values.

 

About ABC Consultants

ABC Consultants is India's leading professional executive selection & recruitment firm. ABC is the largest in the business in terms of services offered, professional team, mandates handled, database size, sectoral specializations and geographical coverage.

 

Founded by Dr. B P Agrawal in 1969, ABC Consultants has been providing services to nearly 5000 organizations, including 80% of the top 500 Indian & multinational corporates. Since the start of liberalization of the Indian economy in the early 1990s, ABC Consultants has assisted more than 200 new multinationals in hiring senior professionals. In 2006, ABC handled over 5000 recruitment mandates

 

Our Client

General Motors Corp. (NYSE: GM), the world's largest vehicle manufacturer, employs about 325,000 people globally, has been the global automotive sales leader since 1931 and currently has a 15 percent share of the global vehicle market. GM's global headquarters are at the GM Renaissance Center in Detroit.

 

General Motors Technical Center - India is a 100% subsidiary of General Motors Corporation USA. This center at ITPL Bangalore houses the R&D, Design Studio, Engineering Center that focus on engineering and research and development work in support of GM's global portfolio. This new organization adds to GM's engineering capability in Asia Pacific, complementing similar technical centers in Australia and China.

The General Motors Design Studio at Bangalore is the ninth largest in the world, among the 11 design centres of GM. It currently has around 50 people and by year end should have around 70 people. Also, many of GM’s global designers will join them from across all the other 11 design centres.  

The design studio in India contributes to the mid-cycle enhancement of existing models and the advanced design of future models. The new digital design studio employs technology tools such as clay milling and virtual reality to bring cars on-road faster. The centre is capable of supporting a global design strategy or GM’s technical centre, making it centre of expertise in interior and component designing. This centre will emerge as a full studio with complete product design capability, going forward. GM has planned an investment of around $60 million for its R&D and design centre in Bangalore