Senior Jewellery Designer

Senior Jewellery Designer

No. of Positions - 1

Function – Design

Reason for Hire – New

Payroll Type - Fixed

Work experience – Minimum 10 years

Company Overview

We are a luxury jewellery global powerhouse, with over 120 years of legacy and 3 design studios catering to retailers globally, along with building human-centric brands Her Story and Unsaid for consumers. Our aim is to make jewellery more relevant to the evolving new customer, with superior craftsmanship and stories told in design. We do this with a deep knowledge of our consumers, centering everything we do, from in-sighting to creation, around them. Helping create new desires in the world of jewellery. At Walking Tree, we help retailers stay relevant, with jewellery that continues to evolve with the modern-day customer. We reimagine classic jewellery techniques, cuts, categories, colours and more to create contemporary and creative collections that deliver the beat of the new-age consumer. With a 1000+ talented team and 100+ designers, we have created over 40 collections for retailers pan India. Our design team takes inspiration from sharp consumer insights creating jewellery that’s in sync with the modern shopper’s lifestyle.

We work with retailers and brands across India, the Middle East and other parts of the world to make jewellery more exciting for the evolving new customer. Our commitment has always been to evolve with them in a way that reinforces their relevance and celebrates their audience's distinctive styles.

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Company - Walking Tree India Pvt Ltd 

Location – MIDC, Andheri, Mumbai

Role:

1. To Lead the Design team.
2. To manage the planning and allocation of all design briefs to the design team.
3. Follow up with the team on a daily basis to ensure output is happening as per plan.

Responsibilities:

1. Once briefs are loaded to the design team, this person needs to get the planning done, as per time norms given, and working with the different project owners.

2. A daily tracking and follow up to ensure output is happening as per plan.

3. Daily and weekly reports need to be published to the Design Head, and the Project owners, in terms of status of briefs, and revised output dates where required.

4. Where delays are happening, they need to work with the respective project owners and figure out a plan to get the output back on track.

5. Also coordinate with New Product Development team to ensure design output is in sync with the requirements.

Preferred Experience and skills:

1. 10 years of experience as a Jewellery Designer and has to be from jewellery industry.

2. Manage a team of minimum 7 people.

3. With Team lead experience of minimum 3-4 years

4. Preferably with an experience in India and export markets

5. Need to have a strong sense of being able to adapt existing designs/products to fit the customer’s requirements, as well as to generate fresh ideas.

6. Having good communication skills is important.

Key attitude traits - 

1. Aggressive and Quick
2. Planning and Organization
3. Sensitive to people and business
4. Collaborative and problem solving
5. Strong decision-making skills 
6. Resilience to keep going after the goal despite setbacks 
7. Having an ever-learning attitude