The incumbent must have in-depth understanding within every stage of the design process and apply innovative thinking, inspiration and leadership when directing cross-fertilized design teams or design leaders. As a liaison between clients, designers at various levels and the executive management, he/she must be confident with design deliverables of multiple projects integrating internal staff such as those from cross-disciplinary backgrounds and cross-studios as well as external creative partners.

RESPONSIBILITY
• Directing, leading and overseeing multiple design disciplines and directors to provide a superior quality level of creative output that meet or exceed the stated objectives.
• Develop methods to promote, transfer and monitor cross-fertilization innovation and interdisciplinary design and creativity throughout the company.
• Enable and develop techniques to integrate the collective input and to foster the distribution of ideas to the entire internal community.
• As a member of Studio Management Team establish the cross-studio philosophy, standards and best practices for design quality and design leadership.
• Create future direction of deign services and derive strategic plans to maintain and increase DW's design leadership position.
• Develop metrics and systems to manage benchmarking goals and criteria.
• Manage consistency and quality control across multiple design disciplines for the studio.
• Direct and create design processes to ensure that a highest quality design deliverable is provided to each client.
• Manage comprehensive design managers, direct reports, and team leaders to meet or exceed client and projects stated objectives.
• Ensure collaboration with global and ***** leadership to maintain project quality in design deliverables.
• Manage the creation and establishment of quality gates and milestones.
• Oversee the implementation of cutting edge methods, standards and best practice.
• Define success criteria for the development and conceptualization of innovative ideas, concepts and design solutions.
• Provide creative problem solving and analysis to assigned projects.
• Partner with Strategic Partnering, Creative Consulting, and the Studio Director with planning; scope, resourcesm budget, timing and deliverables.
• Partner with the Global Collaboration and Knowledge Management Function to create training and development plans and transfer of process and procedure knowledge.
• Contribute extensive knowledge of design & product development especially in the car design sector for the BMW Group.
• Responsible for both project and account level profitability.
• Oversee project teams and support staff.
• Present work internally and to the client, discusses need for modification and change.
• Excellent in client understanding and demonstrating our value proposition at CEO level.
• Clearly communicates project targets, status and progress to management and the design teams.
• Coordinate seamless communication with DW internally, third party clients, BMW Group partners, ED (all levels), and outside partners.

QUALIFICATIONS
• Strong leadership and transactional skills in international organizations.
• Must be able to manage multicultural teams in an international work environment
• Ability to foster design excellence, cross-disciplinary collaboration and to promote creativity.
• Prior work experience and established personal network within the BMW Group is essential for success in this role.
• Strong verbal and written communication as well as interpersonal skills in both English, German is preferred.
• Ability to communicate and interact with executives and officials in a diverse community.
• Passion for Design and Creative Thinking.
• Conceptual thinking.
• 5-7 years team leadership.
• 10+ years professional experience in an executive position in the design division of a corporation or in a design leadership position in a design consulting firm or agency.