Excellence Manager (Product Development)

Your challenge

As a product development excellence manager, you are responsible for the business processes that drive our product development teams to excel in efficiency and productivity. These business processes do not only apply to how our development teams are organized and collaborate, but also apply to OMP’s HR processes that support the development and growth of our team members. You orchestrate, design, and improve our business processes while keeping efficiency, time-to-market, and a people-oriented approach in mind.

You are responsible for:

• Fostering an environment that inspires and drives product development processes, ensuring that all team members feel happy, appreciated, challenged, and empowered.
• Collaborating closely with leadership within the product development organization to enhance and streamline business processes, providing support to ensure effective implementation and operation.
• Ensuring that all business processes are designed to enhance and support the agile methodologies embraced by our product development teams, promoting efficiency and flexibility in their daily operations.
• Managing processes that connect teams within and beyond the Product Development team.
• Implementing the right change management approach to get new processes adopted.

 

About you

Essential talents and qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar. Experience can substitute for a degree.
• At least 5 years of experience in managing and coaching a cross-functional agile product development team.
• 360° communication skills that enable you to connect easily with team members, senior managers, and other stakeholders.
• Experience with change management projects.
• The ability to lead by example.
• Open to occasional travel.
• Comfortable when working under pressure to meet fixed deadlines.

 

Bonus points if you have:

• Experience in working in virtual teams scattered over multiple international locations.
• Knowledge of the ins and outs of project management.

But most of all, you are fun to work with and a great team player!

 

Soft skills ·        Communicative ·        Team-player within a global setting ·        Entrepreneurial attitude ·        Born leader and coach ·        Inspiring

Hard skills ·        Analytical skills ·        Strong affinity with IT ·        Agile process methodology ·        Project management ·        Problem-solving

Language skills Required: ·        English A plus: ·        Dutch ·        French ·        German

 

Your future

We find the perfect intersection of your talents and our evolving needs. Our talent management program supports your personal development and empowers you to build a career in line with your ambitions.