- Where
- Matosinhos, Porto, Portugal
- Level
- Senior
What will you do?
Lead the development and growth of the IT organization in Porto, building a scalable structure that supports the company's ambitions.
Develop teams, define clear roles and responsibilities, and establish effective ways of working across the organization.
Build and strengthen a local leadership structure, gradually delegating responsibilities to team and delivery leads as the organization grows.
Lead, coach, and develop employees, fostering ownership, accountability, collaboration, and professional growth.
Attract, develop, and retain talent while creating an engaging, professional, and results-driven working environment.
Ensure that IT teams deliver on agreed priorities, maintaining oversight of capacity, progress, dependencies, and quality.
Translate strategic priorities into clear objectives for the teams in Porto and ensure effective execution.
Identify organizational challenges and delivery barriers, taking appropriate action to resolve or escalate them.
Act as a key link between the IT organization in Porto and stakeholders in Capelle, ensuring alignment and effective collaboration across locations.
Promote an integrated IT organization, encouraging knowledge sharing, mutual trust, and consistent ways of working.
Drive operational excellence by improving processes, governance, decision-making, and organizational effectiveness.
Support the organization's continued growth, helping develop an IT organization capable of scaling to approximately 80 employees.
What do you need for this position?
Higher professional or university-level education, or an equivalent level of working and thinking.
Extensive leadership experience within a changing and growing organization.
Proven experience in building or significantly scaling teams is strongly preferred.
Experience within IT, technology, digital transformation, or a comparable change and/or delivery environment.
Experience in recruitment, team development, and organizational design.
Experience working with international or geographically distributed teams is a strong advantage.
Excellent command of English is essential, proficiency in Dutch is an advantage.