R&D Team Lead

Your role and responsibilities :In this role, you will have the opportunity to lead a team of Research and Development (R&D) employees and support them in achieving the agreed R&D targets. Each day, you will coach and develop the team. You will also showcase your expertise by helping in managing technologies, platforms, and Intellectual Property.

You will be mainly accountable for:

• Plan and manage effective project portfolio for R&D team, including capacity levels and resources as well as efficient, timely, and quality-driven project execution
• Work in close collaboration with management to ensure appropriate representation of needs relating to R&D projects.
• Manage resources for R&D activities, assign tasks to team members, and supervise workload and work allocation within the project team
• Support the team in continuously developing a process fitting to the requirements of the company environment.
• Handle factory related project requirements to enable its execution as per the set requirements
• Ensures understanding of customer value. Take into consideration requirements and demands coming from customers and from different ABB functions (sales, supply, production, etc.). Acts to ensure customer satisfaction and expectations.
• Serves as the key contact for the project stakeholders. Effectively communicates appropriate information to stakeholders in a timely manner and to achieve desired understanding and support.
• Manages relationships with stakeholders, internal functions, other R&D teams in Technology Center and/or Corporate Research Centers and external relevant parties (e.g. customers, academia).

Qualifications for the role:

• BE / B. Tech / ME / M. Tech, Computer Science/ Electrical or/Electronics and communication / Electronics and Instrumentation.
• Working experience in software specially in Microsoft technologies like C#, WinForms and WPF
• 8 to 10 years of experience in software development and 2-3 years in project management
• Leadership and people management skills preferable