Software Development Manager

**Your Challenge**:
As a Software Development Manager, you're the **leader, coach, and inspiration for a global team** of skilled software engineers.

Your team is your top priority. Are they collaborating efficiently? Do they get the right opportunities and challenges to develop their skills? Your people, project management, and technical skills **make teamwork a success**. You set assignments and share feedback that encourages your team to take things to the next level.

In close collaboration with our Functional Product Manager, you **create a reliable release plan**. During execution, you are responsible for **ensuring all priorities are met and all stakeholders are kept informed** about progress. You also take part in development project(s) to maintain and improve your technical skills.

To make sure our (agile) development process is correctly executed, you:

- **Follow up on all steps** from the initial scope negotiation with the Functional Product Manager and technical design to implementation, testing, and quality assurance.
- **Stay on top of the agile process** to ensure development topics are delivered on time and our high-quality standards are met.
- **Delegate** to our technical leads, senior developers, and dedicated scrum testing team. But, when necessary, you're not afraid to get your hands dirty.
- **Encourage team members** to share feedback and ideas, and empower them to realize these suggestions.
- **Facilitate and coordinate cross-team collaboration**, with other development teams, but also with our scrum testing, QA, and documentation teams.

Lastly, you're happy to work internationally and travel to multiple locations depending on the geographical spread of your team.

**Your team**:
As our new Software Development Manager, you'll be part of a large, fast-growing, international Software Development team located in Belgium (Antwerp, Ghent, Wavre), Spain (Barcelona), Ukraine (Lviv), and the US (Atlanta). **Software Development** creates leading software solutions that make a difference to our customers. We make smart, robust and scalable software to solve complex supply chain planning challenges.

Our team is divided into smaller **subteams**, each focused on a specific domain within our innovative solution. We try to find the area that matches your interests. Which of the following teams is right for you?
- **Graphical user interface (GUI)** developments in collaboration with human-centered design experts that focus on improved user experience (UX)
- **Data integration** to connect our software with data from external ERP systems
- **Data science and optimization** - mathematical algorithms for smart supply chain optimization and demand forecasting
- Building low level, **generic frameworks and APIs** that are used by our other developers

**Your profile**:
We are looking for someone who meets the following qualifications:

- A Master or PhD in ICT, Engineering, Mathematics, or another relevant field.
- Experience in managing and coaching a software development team.
- Knowledge of all the ins and outs of project management and agile software development.
- Great 360° communication skills so you can connect easily with team members, senior managers, coaches, other development managers, product managers, and consultants.
- The ability to lead by example, as well as being a born coach with the skills to steer a team.
- The eagerness to dive into technical details when required.

Bonus points if you have:

- Experience and knowledge of the benefits and pitfalls of working in virtual teams spread over multiple locations.
- C++ expertise and a good knowledge of object-oriented programming. If not, you're willing to learn modern C++.
- Experience with design patterns, UML, algorithmic thinking, multi-threading, and distributed systems.
- Willingness to travel.

**Soft skills**
- People management
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Pragmatic
- Passionate

**Hard** **skills**
- Project management
- Abstract thinking
- Object-oriented programming

**Language skills**

Required:

- English

A plus:

- Any other language

**Your future at OMP**:
At OMP, we're eager to find your best career fit. Our talent management program supports your personal development and empowers you to build a career in line with your ambitions.

As a Software Development Manager, you can grow along with the company.