Squad Lead for Standardization

☞ Randstad Switzerland

View: 215

Update day: 29-03-2024

Location: Zug Zug ZG

Category: High Technology Mechanical / Technical Electrical / Electronics IT - Software Education / Training

Industry: Medical Equipment Manufacturing Biotechnology Research Pharmaceutical Manufacturing

Position: Associate

Job type: Full-time

Loading ...

Job content

For our client, an international company in Rotkreuz we are looking for

Squad Lead for Standardization

  • Start date: ASAP
  • End: 30/09/2023
  • Extension: possible
  • Workplace: Rotkreuz
  • Workload: 100%
  • Home Office: Hybrid 60%

The Squad Lead is responsible to identify opportunities for standardization, elaborate value cases for selected standards and defend the value cases in front of a broad variety of senior management stakeholders. After approval of a standardization opportunity it is the Squad Lead’s responsibility to identify potential squad members across all the organization and form a multi-disciplinary squad for the elaboration and company wide roll-out of the standard. The Squad Lead has a functional leadership role and is responsible for active stakeholder management across the entire organization.

The perfect candidate has at least a Bachelor’s Degree in an Engineering discipline, 3-6 years experience in a senior technical leadership position or in the R&D environment. Experience in stakeholder management on senior management level and a strong economic view is a must.

Tasks & Responsibilities:

  • Provide a vision, value proposition and roadmap for a standard opportunity
  • Coach standard development squad through all phases of the standard development process and participate all related activities
  • Lead and motivate a standard development squad team by providing a feeling for their contribution’s value and impact
  • Maintain the squad team’s backlog/plan, including standard deliverables and organizational activities, to maximize value creation
  • Analyze and collect requirements and expectations from stakeholders; Identify and resolve concerns or resistance from business or technical stakeholders, and resolve conflicts between stakeholders’ expectations
  • Seek buy-in from business / technical stakeholders and mobilize the organization to contribute and support the standard development and final adoption in products
  • Create visibility in the organization, and promote standards by informing business / technical stakeholders about progress and achievements
  • Collect feedback from stakeholders to validate that the squad team’s deliverables fulfill their expectations
  • Coordinate dependencies and resource availability with different contributor groups across the organization
  • Align with product teams on roadmaps for standard implementation.

    • Must Haves:

    • Min. Bachelor degree in an Engineering related discipline (e.g. System Development, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, System Engineering) (****)
    • Min. 3-6 years professional experience in a senior technical leadership position e.g. project lead, program lead, lead architect, department lead or product manager in R&D environment (****)
    • Experience with Senior Stakeholder Management, cooperation and communication skills within a multinational environment (****)
    • Excellent interpersonal skills and a proven ability to build and manage trusted relationships across cultural, and functional boundaries and engages with a wider network with ease (****)
    • Leadership, delegation & coaching skills, ability to convince and to approach people
    • Conflict Management skills
    • Sharp analytical and problem-solving skills
    • Active listener with attention to detail
    • Strong flexibility and adaptability in changing circumstances, able to cut-through complexity and ambiguity to deliver meaningful and valuable results
    • Fluent in English, excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.

    Nice to Have:

    • Experiences in a GMP-regulated environment
    • Experience in sales or marketing
    Loading ...
    Loading ...

    Deadline: 13-05-2024

    Click to apply for free candidate

    Apply

    Report job
    Loading ...
    Loading ...

    SIMILAR JOBS

    Loading ...
    Loading ...