Team Manager Software Engineering NPD– Poultry Innovation

The team manager software engineering new product development is responsible for software engineering activities across development projects for the entire poultry value chain, thereby safeguarding the technical integrity of the solutions.

What you will be doing:

• You will be leading a multidisciplinary team of (~10) software engineers.
• Accountable for delivering software functionality into NPD projects.
• Manage the scope and timeline of important functionalities delivered from internal stakeholders & suppliers (Software solutions & sustainment engineering)
• Accountable for the technical integrity of the output from your team members.
• Coach, motivate and challenge individual team members.
• Setting goals for team members, performing year-end reviews
• Responsible for the planning and prioritization of the workload of your team in NPD projects.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes, and subsequently start and follow-up initiatives.
• Shaping your team, including performing screening and hiring of engineers, and developing the hard and soft skills of your team.
• Develop and execute a strategic workforce planning.
• Managing the relationship with a multitude of internal and external stakeholders
• Develop and safeguard one way-of-working to secure consistent and qualitative output of the team.
• Working closely together with Innovation Product managers, Project Managers and other Engineering Managers.
• Staying up-to-date with the most recent technical developments and identifying opportunities for Marel.
• Support the Manager Design Engineering in creating a long-term technical road map.

Skills & abilities:

The position demands technical leadership and good analytical skills to oversee complex problems. Needs to be able to lead a team towards technically robust solutions, and possess the following skills:

• Excellent English skills, both written and verbal.
• Having strong technical knowledge in software engineering.
• Strong leadership and management skills.
• Capability of managing high degrees of complexity.
• Pro-active with a mindset to get things done.
• Results oriented with ability to plan and deliver against deadlines.
• Able to coach and challenge others.
• Demonstrate clear and effective communication at multiple levels and with a multitude of disciplines.
• Building and maintaining a network in the internal organization as well as outside.
• A real team-player.
• Experience with agile/scrum project execution and associated tools (Jira, GitLab or similar) is a plus.

Education and experience:

• Bachelor, Master or PhD degree in Software, Mechatronics, Electronics or related field.
• Working experience within the food-domain, preferably within the poultry industry, is a plus.
• +3 years of experience as team manager/lead/coordinator or related job profile, preferably within an R&D environment.

If you'd like to learn more about this position, please contact our Talent Acquisition Lead, Kim Huijs by email: kim.huijs@marel.com