Product Dev Team Lead
- Full-time
Company Description
EcoVadis offers an exciting, truly international job opportunity in an innovative and dynamic environment. Awarded as the fastest-growing startup in the sustainable supply chain space, EcoVadis is driven by a young team of over 30 nationalities making a real impact on the environmental and social practices of companies around the world.
EcoVadis aims at improving environmental and social practices of companies by leveraging the influence of global supply chain. More than 100 Global Multinational companies have selected the EcoVadis solution, including Fortune 500 such as Axa, Bayer, BASF, Coca Cola Enterprises, Deutsche Telekom, Heineken, Henkel, Orange, Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Nestlé, Renault-Nissan, Schneider Electric and Verizon.
Job Description
The team lead is responsible for the good functioning and performance of Product dev members (Functional Analysts and Product Owners of his team), from both an individual and collective views.
The team lead is also responsible for the quality of what the team delivers, and must therefore implement the good practices as necessary with support of product Dev Manager, for various aspects of the job like specifications quality, Backlog management on line with Business priorities. Here, quality is to be taken in all its dimensions : Functional defects, Communication internal and external to IT, Backlog ranking...
Team performance
Identify and select talents (internal / external). Manage individual and collective performance of the team.
Assign goals and progress directions to the team members, and monitor them.
Make regular one on one meetings, to better understand strong and weak points of everyone in the team, as well as their motivations, and to be in a situation that makes it possible to frequently adjust goals.
Propose trainings when necessary, assign people to the activities that are best adapted to their skills, goals and expectations.
Propose and validate improvements for the team (workload estimation, development, programming rules, test automation, ...etc)
Implement software specification best practices, according to the priorities of Ecovadis.
Actively promote a culture of listening, where information transparency, including bad news, is encouraged.
Team Activity Monitoring
Provide Status on key activities of his/her team members to Product dev manager
Manage tasks assignment to his/her team members based on EcoVadis priorities
Monitor key activities of the team like specification progress, backlog management, etc...
Qualifications
The team lead must have enough decision autonomy to be seen as accountable for his decisions (priorities assignment, improvement actions, ...etc).
The team lead must have a work environment where collaboration with his/her peers is good, and enables to discuss openly about cross organization problems.
Product Dev team lead evaluation criteria
Quality of specifications delivered
Alignment of backlogs with Ecovadis Strategy
Quality of collaboration with colleagues, ability to listen, ability to solve potential disagreements in a positive manner
Capacity to motivate team (listen, delegate, align work with roadmap and goals, reward people)
Transparency and quality of provided information
Required experience
Experience in agile methodology and more specifically on product owner role
Experience in functional specification delivery
Leadership based on openness and ability to make a team work together
Pragmatism, facts based
Good written and verbal communication
Additional Information
Give your career a boost! Join an outstanding team of talented individual working on a project that makes sense...
Terms: Full-Time Permanent
Beginning: ASAP
Location: Tunis
For more information about EcoVadis please visit our site: www.ecovadis.com