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Team Lead (Local Contract)

Team Lead (Local Contract)

Mercedes-Benz MalaysiaPuchong, Selangor, Malaysia
2 days ago
Job description

About Us

At Mercedes-Benz, we don’t just build cars, we create great software. We develop tomorrow’s mobility together in our product lines, pushing the digitization of the Mercedes-Benz Group AG forward. As a tech company, we are agile, innovative, and always keep our finger on the pulse of change. This is why inner source, FOSS, secure code, DevOps, infrastructure as code (IaC), data analytics, artificial intelligence, and many more are core components of our daily work.

IT is our passion, and we move toward a bright future, sometimes quickly, sometimes creatively but always together.

We believe in integrity, trust, and transparency as part of our flexible work culture, with a strong emphasis on teamwork and the learning process, making mistakes, and achieving continuous progress together in all products we create and develop within the Mercedes-Benz Group.

Our workplace is anywhere with a fast connection whether remotely at home, at your favorite café, or at our integrated office at Wisma Mercedes-Benz, which comes with an LRT station at its doorstep, an al fresco cafeteria, ample greenspaces, and free parking.

Job Description

1. Business Driver

  • Disciplinary responsibility of an organizational unit (team; cost center), whereby the focus here is on personnel and budget responsibility in particular
  • Representing and positioning your own organizational unit to stakeholders as well as actively cooperating with business partners to create sustainable needs and generate new orders
  • Analyzing, evaluating and planning key figures to be able to control one's own organizational unit according to financial aspects
  • Making personnel decisions regarding personnel selection, capacity management, as well as performance- and remuneration-relevant aspects

2. Transformational Leader

  • Active participation in strategy development at the organizational level
  • Translating and managing strategic developments for your own organizational unit
  • Operate active portfolio management to ensure strategic requirements

    • 3. People Developer

  • Accompaniment and support of employees in their professional and personal development
  • Active management of team dynamics as well as individual orientation regarding expectations and development potential
  • General care for the employees responsible

    • 4. Change Agent

  • Ensuring a future‑proof orientation of your own organizational unit - in terms of collaboration models, product orientation, skill management, competence development and transformation capability
  • Procedural, organizational and empathetic support of the employees responsible for changes
  • Promoting international collaboration at the Home of Tech level (in terms of content and culture)

    • 5. Self-Leader

  • Practices self‑management, sets priorities, constantly questions his own role and controls himself and his own issues on his own responsibility

    • Qualifications

  • Minimum of 10 years’ working experience in a related field is required.
  • Degree in the field of computer science or business informatics, as well as several years of professional experience in IT specific

    • Specific knowledge / Skill

  • Proactive and autonomous way of working, steering in a highly structured way
  • High self‑motivation, resilience and prioritization capabilities in volatile IT environment
  • Well‑developed communication & negotiation skills and assertiveness
  • Technical background across a wide range of technologies, particularly software engineering, to be able to communicate with the teams in their language
  • Good understanding of various industry standard agile practices (DevSecOps, CI / CD, Scrum, Kanban)
  • Ability to build good relationships with colleagues at all hierarchical levels and in different roles to find access
  • Entrepreneurial thinking and mindset
  • Experience working with many international markets / business partner

    • Responsibility and Scope for decision‑making

  • Proven experience in operational, conceptual, and technical aspects across various phases of IT product development.
  • Expertise in leading and strategically aligning distributed agile development teams, with a strong track record of collaborating with international partners and teams.
  • Profound experience in customer, stakeholder and people management ~ 30 direct reports
  • In-depth understanding of how to digitize and optimize processes
  • Proven track record in developing complex digital products and strategic initiatives
  • Excellent knowledge of Mercedes-Benz brand and IT products

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