Adfinis drives digitalization with open standards and technologies, shaping a world of innovative, sustainable, and resilient IT solutions based on trusted Open Source technology to unlock the full potential of our customers.
We're curently on the lookout for a experienced People Lead for our Cloud Native team, which collaborates with our customers in their organizational and technical transition to the Cloud Native world. We plan, build, and run critical cloud-based IT infrastructure based on our proven and standardized stack of tools for container plattforms, security measures, and CI/CD solutions.
Tasks
As a People Lead, you are responsible for guiding a remote-first customer service delivery team at Adfinis towards excellence, thereby contributing to the sustainable competitiveness, growth, and success of Adfinis.
Serving as an inspiring leader, you empower and motivate team members, encourage collaboration, and help each team member to develop and leverage their full potential. As an efficient manager you ensure each team member has the necessary resources and capabilities to successfully fulfill their assignments and responsibilities.
You'll regularly interact with various stakeholders such as other service delivery teams in Switzerland and abroad, executive management, sales, and customers, and need to skilfully balance their various interests.
Your leadership tasks and duties will include:
- Leading a remote-first team of 9-17 employees from Apprentice to Expert Level
- Promoting knowledge transfer, growth, and collaboration within the value stream
- Driving the execution of the company strategy in your value stream
- Ensuring a bidirectional flow of information with executive management
- Communicating and executing organizational change measures
Your management tasks and duties will include:
- Setting goals and objectives, monitoring progress, and tracking performance
- Planning, allocating, and optimizing team resources
- Conducting employee appraisals and performance reviews
- Planning and coordinating trainings and certifications
- Leading recruiting processes and makes hiring decision
- Managing the team budget (incl. wages and expenses)
- Coordinates absences, overtime, and holidays
Requirements
Must-Have Leadership Skills
You have a proven track record of leading a team of system engineers in an IT services company.
- Strategic Thinking: You think ahead, plan long-term objectives, and foresee the implications and potential consequences of decisions.
- Team Building: You shape a supportive work environment, encourage team cohesion, resolve disagreements, and foster an authentic team spirit.
- Coaching and Mentoring: You provide guidance and feedback to help others grow professionally and personally.
- Delegation and Empowerment: You effectively distribute tasks and duties while empowering team members to take ownership and make decisions.
- Ethical Leadership: You promote integrity, fairness, and ethical behavior in personal and professional actions.
Must-Have Soft Skills
- Coordination: You assign tasks and link them to objectives, integrate individual contributions, monitor and maintain progress, and establish a proper flow of information.
- Influencing: You take the perspective of others, respond to emotional cues, make a deliberate impact on others, resolve disagreements, and win others over for your actions and ideas.
- Resilience: You remain confident under adversity, stay composed during pressure and increased workload, overcome failures, and keep a healthy work-life balance.
- Prioritization: You set priorities, align them with goals, translate them into actionable steps, adhere to them, and adapt them where necessary.
Nice-to-Have Skills
- You have leadership experience from both SME and enterprise environments.
- You have a strong affinity to Open-Source solutions and philosophy.
- You know your way around the Cloud Native world.
Benefits
- Open Source Culture: Transparency, collaboration, and community not only shape our technology choices and business model but also define the very core of our company's identity.
- Attractive Working Environment: We're a value-driven, owner-operated company with an informal atmosphere, direct and uncomplicated communication, and short decision-making paths.
- Growth and Training: We are committed to our employees' growth and development, investing in their training and certifications, and providing opportunities to attend conferences.
- Great Flexibility: Whether you prefer full-time or part-time work, in-office or remote options– we will find a work arrangement that fits your situation.
Are you interested? Thomas Köchli, Chief Operating Officer, will be happy to review your application.
We are looking forward to getting to know you!