Core Applications Team Lead

Company Description

We’re Adevinta , a global leader in digital marketplaces. Our household name brands, including marktplaats in the Netherlands, Mobile.de in Germany and leboncoin in France, reach hundreds of millions of people every month across 16 countries.

We’re all about matchmaking, and our sites help people find whatever they’re looking for in their local communities - whether it’s a car, an apartment, a sofa or a new job. Every connection made or item found makes a difference by creating a world where people share more and waste less.

Our brands are supported by Global Teams based in our main Hub in Barcelona and our other global Hubs in Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin. Our local brands are founded on the connections between people, and as an international group we create networks of talented Adevintans who work together towards a common purpose across geographies and disciplines.

Job Description : The Team lead is responsible for the team management of a specific product group. His/Her role is to manage people & to align the business objectives of the product line owner with the execution teams composed by Product Manager and App admins.

He/She is in charge of defining the best ways of working for the team to deliver its services, he/she defines and follows objectives for his/her scope.

Your main responsibilities will be :

• Align with the product line owner (PLO) to define the strategy and roadmap for his/her scope. Materialize those ambitions into concrete objectives for his/her product group.
• Steer correct execution of the objectives and report directly to the PLO.
• Is responsible to align with the team to choose the correct governance, processes and methodologies to be used to achieve product line objectives.
• Is the owner and manages the budget, benefits and outcome of his/her scope and reports it at PLO and Guide & control.
• Participate in the discussions at program level and manage external dependencies for the team.
• Is managing his product group’s collaborator. Define performance goals, manage career aspiration, training and talent retention.
• Is responsible for reviewing product group architecture with the enterprise architecture team with the teach lead and following changes of implementation with the product manager.
• Manage the software asset for his area.
• Participate in the selection and validate vendors proposed by his/her team (RFI, RFP). In the run, participates in vendor and service providers discussions - he/she is expecting to bring the technical view into it. He/She participates in vendor performance assessments.
• Is involved in the sourcing strategy of his/her team: define recruitment target, contractors needed and involved in the recruitment/contracting process.
• Handover to operations and act as the main point of contact for licensing management.
• Continuously improve the support model.

* This position can be based in Barcelona or Paris as per mutual agreement

Qualifications : Your skills and qualifications include :

• Experienced profile with 4+ years in the IT team management area.
• Leadership skills; to inspire to deliver product visions.
• Communication: Ability to interact with all levels of the business, exceptionally good listening skills, ability to present complex or new ideas with clarity and simplicity; excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Business fluency
• Technical fluency: Ability to work and understand tech environment and language
• Technical solution design. Foresee interconnections between different services in the portfolio to improve performance and value to the business.
• Software development and configuration (Bash, Python, Javascript knowledge) is a big plus.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills in multiple organizational dynamics.
• Negotiation skills with external providers.
• Involvement in people management; define his recruitment needs, help to set job descriptions, follow recruitment process with HR, secure ramping-up, manage career objectives, performance review and training.
• Agile mindset: iterate on everything, build MVP
• Agile delivery management: Scrum, Kanban (certification is a plus)
• Prioritize wisely the activities of the product team
• Delegating: empower PM and App Admin in the project and run activities
• Collaboration: ability to work efficiently with a team
• Innovation mindset: ability to understand the value of new technologies, new ways of working and how to shape them to fit the team
• Ability to manage ambiguity
• English is a must, any other European language is a strong asset (i.e. Spanish, French, German, Dutch)

Additional Information What do we have to offer:

• Competitive compensation package
• A unique position in an international and dynamic environment
• Opportunity to shape the way we work. Your feedback and opinions are valued at all levels of the organization
• The chance to be a key player in a growing, highly skilled team
• Great c