General Manager/ Director – CLOSED

Timisoara

For a leading supplier of technology solutions, we are looking for a General Manager to lead the company’s engineering team in Timisoara.

 

Job Purpose:

  • To lead the engineering team in Timisoara to be a motivated, productive, fully integrated part of the worldwide group/ team
  • To be the General Manager and leader of the Timisoara office, ensuring strong communication between Timisoara and the headquarters, and delivering an effective well-managed office, complying with all location legislation, and group processes
  • As the organisation matures and scales, we are looking to move the focus of the team from a start-up mode, to one of a more process oriented mature organisation

 

Key Responsibilities & Tasks:

  • To manage resources and skills across the engineers team in Timisoara
  • To be the clear and visible leader of the engineering team, ensuring that strategies and priorities are clearly aligned between the HQ and Romanian organisations
  • To motivate staff and provide technical direction and guidance
  • Responsible for building and maintaining a world class engineering team
  • Accountable for the predictable and on-time delivery of NPI commitments
  • Ensuring that we maintain our focus on delivering high quality software releases
  • To enhance our development processes to ensure that we are using best demonstrated practises within our software development and test teams
  • To develop and deliver long term objectives and performance standards for the Romanian engineering team
  • To work with the product marketing team to deliver an agreed roadmap for our products

 

Key attributes of the successful candidate:

  • Broad experience of leading software and testing teams, spanning embedded software development and mobile Application development
  • Strong technical skills to be able to guide and mentor the engineering team
  • High-energy, “get things done” person with a proven track record of building strong delivery focussed engineering teams
  • Strong individual, capable of formulating strategies, making compelling arguments in support of them, and executing the agreed strategies
  • Capable or working at all levels in the organisation, up to and including the Senior Management team
  • Proven problem solver. Able to rationally examine problems, identify solutions, and execute them
  • Broad understanding of modern software technologies and development processes spanning real time embedded, and mobile applications
  • Fast learner, able to come up to speed rapidly on our business, products, technologies and processes
  • Excellent team building skills, able to build a cohesive, motivated team
  • Excellent team player, who can build strong relationships with peers in the Engineering and Commercial teams
  • Experience of the legal and financial aspects of running an engineering organisation in Romania
  • Fluent in spoken and written Romanian and English

 

Qualifications and experience:

  • Good engineering degree or equivalent
  • At least 15 years’ experience in software development leadership
  • Recent hands-on software development experience
  • Experience of developing high volume, low cost products
  • Experience of developing software to very short, time-critical schedules