Job Description
Senior Manager, Mumbai
REFID744653
Our NielsenIQ's Brandbank Software Developers work collaboratively alongside other development team members, Product Owners & Scrum Masters to realize business goals.
Working within dedicated domains, the Software Developer - using an incremental delivery approach - is responsible for developing new and existing products by understanding and translating backlog items into solutions.
- Ensure that project and small change deliveries across multiple highly engaged, proactive and driven agile development teams are in line with business needs
- Engage with stakeholders across Product, Programme Management Office (PMO), IT and third-party suppliers to ensure resources are allocated in line with agreed priorities and drive closer collaboration between IT and these other teams
- Ensure development teams within your department can remain tightly focused on delivery by building strong working relationships with Product and PMO stakeholders to align with roadmaps
- Ensure that communication and engagement with other IT teams is clear and timely, including ensuring end-to-end delivery focus within your department and that reporting and monitoring of deliveries, risks, issues and application health is fit for purpose and has the correct audience
- Ensure risks and issues within your department are correctly identified and resolved or escalated
- Drive adoption of Agile principles, processes and behaviours within your department while maintaining delivery focus
Responsibilities
- Lead your assigned teams to deliver projects, small change and BAU tasks which support the organisation strategy and goals, ensuring time recording is completed promptly and in line with the agreed guidelines
- Drive engagement between the teams in your department and other IT teams, including at third party suppliers where relevant, and ensure that all teams are working to support the key business objectives
- Build and maintain positive working relationships and shared trust and take responsibility for clear and accurate communication between your department, other IT departments, and relevant business and third-party teams
- Responsible for managing multiple associates in your assigned teams
- Responsible for driving agile adoption across the teams within your department, ensuring an appropriate balance between progress on agile maturity and pragmatic delivery focus
- Responsible for supporting the performance of your department, ensuring your assigned teams provide appropriate input into project and programme planning.
- Work with the Head of Engineering to define and implement appropriate reporting and KPIs, and to ensure that appropriate alerting and monitoring is in place for the applications within your department
- Manage the budget for the associates you manage, ensuring budgetary risks and issues are properly escalated or resolved
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field of work or equivalent professional qualification or experience
- Scrum Master Certification with relevant scrum master work experience
- Experience in leading IT teams to deliver business goals
- Experience in full systems development lifecycle on multiple concurrent projects across a complex application estate
- Proven track record of driving the adoption of agile methodologies and using agile tools
- Significant experience of line management, coaching and mentoring
- Evidence of effectively leading and influencing multiple levels of an organization across
- functional boundaries
- Strong analytical skills and evidence of a proactive and pragmatic approach to problem solving
- Strong oral and written English communication skills including problem solving, prioritising and interpersonal relationship building
- Proven organization and time management skills (ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines).
- Proven ability to work independently with little supervision and direct the work of others.
- Proven ability to facilitate group discussion and build consensus
- Significant knowledge of the Brandbank business
Additional Information
Our Benefits
- Flexible working environment
- Volunteer time off
- LinkedIn Learning
- Employee-Assistance-Program (EAP)
About NIQ
NIQ is the world’s leading consumer intelligence company, delivering the most complete understanding of consumer buying behavior and revealing new pathways to growth. In 2023, NIQ combined with GfK, bringing together the two industry leaders with unparalleled global reach. With a holistic retail read and the most comprehensive consumer insights—delivered with advanced analytics through state-of-the-art platforms—NIQ delivers the Full View™. NIQ is an Advent International portfolio company with operations in 100+ markets, covering more than 90% of the world’s population.
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