Senior Manager

In the VELUX Group, we offer you a world of opportunities and the chance to create a bright future. From the forefront of the sustainable indoor living industry, we enable those who live, work and play under the roof transform their spaces and live a healthier everyday life with more daylight and fresh air.

The VELUX Group is an international, family-owned business with strong financial roots and each year we are able to create real impact by reinvesting in society, our employees and planet through our foundations.
Alongside the rest of our values, “courage” and “mutual respect” define our actions every day and how we wish to contribute to the world.

Are you an experienced (Senior) Manager with a proven track record within embedded hardware and software design? Are you motivated by setting the strategic and tactical objectives and execution with focus on technology, and by defining the interface within core and third party solutions? Can you set the standards, design the processes, and lead new ways of working towards architecture, quality assurance and future for digital Smart homes?

Then you might be our new Senior Manager for our Embedded Hardware area.

Your Challenges
Joining us at our offices in Skjern or Østbirk, you will report directly to Senior Director of Mechatronics and Digital modules, Senad Huskic, in VELUX Innovation Center (R&D). You will be part of a leadership team of 6, consisting of 4 sub teams: Drive units and controls; Software communication platforms; Software drive unit platform and automated testing; and last but not least, your team in Hardware and power supply unit.

You and your team will have a great deal of interaction with colleagues and stakeholders across the Products organization, as well as across the full VELUX organization, especially our Supply organization (Procurement, Production, Quality etc.).

Your responsibility will be to lead a team of 11 employees and 5 external consultants developing state-of-the-art embedded HW solutions. Focus is needed to streamline the design process as well as defining core and 3 party elements to accelerate digital transformation. Part of the task is to establish firm technology roadmap with focus on connectivity, sourcing and secure that modules are ready a head of the projects securing a transformation towards module development. Team is responsible for both technology development, new products and optimization of the products giving the full end-to-end responsibility.

More specifically, you will

Provide technical direction and solutions for embedded HW as well as power supply strategies for both mains and solar driven products.Create and communicate a compelling vision for change.Lead the execution of strategic initiatives with MDM across to secure cross transformational change.Transform Innovational balance in the hardware portfolio to have better balance with Technology, NPL, Cost out, Sustainability and Quality and maintenance tasks.Secure increased focus on Systems Engineering and reliability in design with stakeholders across Quality, Supplier quality and testing.Define HW architecture and sourcing strategy, encourage and inspire team to take ownership of architectural decisions and improve operational efficiency via automation, as well as reducing the complexity in the product program.Monitor progress and adjust tactical plans accordingly, secure data-driven decisions in portfolio.Be responsible for end-to-end hardware lifecycle from idea to technology, NPL, cost out & sustainability optimization as well as continues delivery.

You should expect approx. 20-30 days of travelling per year within Denmark and Europe, e.g. to our production locations. Our development locations are Østbirk, Skjern and Brno in Czech Republic.
 

Your Qualifications
To be the ideal candidate for this role, it is important that you:

Have worked intensively with change management, digital transformation and have a good understanding of systems engineering.Have a proven track record of leading embedded hardware and power supply teams optimizing architectural design.Have proven track record of scaling via partnerships on hardware design.Bring a mix of practical experience and a “theoretical” toolbox within Embedded hardware design, systems engineering and hardware architecture.Are adapting safe agile principals or equivalent structures to secure speed and flexibility in HW&SW.Have great business understanding.Can work effectively and efficiently in an environment where resistance to change may be present, and where we progress by obtaining support for the transformation on all levels of the organization.Speak and write English proficiently.

In addition, it is beneficial for the role, if you:

Hold a degree with embedded electronics combined with business or leadership education.Bring minimum 5 years as a Senior specialist or Manager position within product development.Bring a solid technical understanding of and ability to work in a technically founded environment.Able to gain influence and inspire stakeholders in an international matrix organization, with exposure to VP levels.Are experienced in the Stage gate project model.Are a good communicator, especially in your interaction with your key stakeholders and in presentations.

Through your leadership style you seek to create and foster an inclusive culture, with an innovative and forward-looking mindset. You can manage to inspire as well as secure traction and develop team and stakeholders to multiply the effect on the entire business.

You actively seek feedback to learn and increase your own awareness as well avoiding the potential biases. You have empathy for others and sincere desire to develop people so they can perform at they outmost. You are enthusiastic about driving meaningful change and shaping the future of digital organization, while leveraging emotional intelligence to navigate complex organizational dynamics.

Your opportunities
We are family and foundation owned company with a long history of strong results. In addition to operating at a highly professional level, our team is characterised by an informal tone and a healthy sense of humour. We work as one team to reach our ambitious results. We believe in empowering people, and we support this through sharing knowledge, delegating responsibility, and investing in people who strive to make a difference.

We are a solid value-based company where commitment, courage, agility and mutual respect are among the core values and teamwork and professionalism is essential to the way we work.

You will join an company and an organization with flexibility to ensure that the personal and professional life goes hand in hand, and we value getting to know you as a person at the workplace. We are a multinational organization with different nationalities, as one of the teams is located in Brno, we are focused on creating a diverse work environment, and arrange a series of social events for our employees – and we hope you want to participate as well.

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