Senior IT Team Manager
Main responsibilities
Provide Team Leadership
• Manage the team’s recruitments, objectives setting, appraisal and performance review.
• Create an environment oriented to trust, open communication, creative thinking, and cohesive team effort.
• Motivate and inspire team members by setting a good example (role model).
• Help develop team members; help resolve dysfunctional behavior.
• Strive for team consensus and win-win situation.
• Ensure discussions and decisions lead toward conclusion.
• Maintain healthy group dynamics.
• Ensure that the team members are equipped and trained effectively to participate in the team.
• Encourage creativity, risk-taking, and constant improvement.
• Coach the team towards increased quality, performance, and innovation.
• Recognize team member accomplishments and outstanding performance.
Focus the Team on Customer Requirements
• Build Roadmap for Short-term to Long-term.
• Coordinate with internal and external stakeholder as necessary.
• Initiate sub-groups or sub-teams as appropriate to resolve issues and perform tasks in parallel.
Coordinate Team Logistics
• Ensure deliverables are prepared in line with the requirements.
• Help keep the team focused and on track.
• Work with other IT Managers and Head of Sections and Departments to obtain necessary resources to support the team’s requirements.
• Establish meeting times, places, and agendas.
Communicate team status, task accomplishment, and direction
• Analyze status reporting of team activities against the program plan or schedule.
• Keep the Head of department and section informed of task accomplishment, issues, and status.
• Serve as a focal point to communicate and resolve interface and integration issues with other teams and business partners.
• Escalate issues which cannot be resolved within the team.
• Provide guidance to the team based on management direction.
Business - Delivery management
• Reach agreement on plans for projects and services provided by the team.
• Lead design, implementation, and integration in the solutions.
• Ensure the projects, activities and tasks under the team’s responsibility are performed within quality standards, on schedule and cost-effectively.
• Manage budget and capacity allocation according to priorities.
• Ensure each solution developed by the team fulfills the client needs.
Lean Management - Practices
• Ensure an effective performance dialogue and meeting cascade are in place, facilitating team performance improvement and the escalation of problems.
• Ensure the capacity of the team is actively managed in order to meet defined priorities and sustain Continuous Im