Head of Engineering

SAMSS; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onsite parking

Company Pension Scheme

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption

Mental Health First Aiders

BCA Rewards

Job summary

Constellations Automotive Group is seeking a visionary Head of Engineering to lead our Engineering Teams, providing strategic direction and driving operational efficiency. Your leadership will shape long-term strategy and ensure we deliver on commitments, while aligning technical initiatives to sustainably meet business goals.

You will build and mentor strong teams, foster a diverse and innovative culture, and partner with talent to attract top engineers, balancing delivery with cost

Responsibilities

• Build multiple effective, sustainable and outcome-aligned engineering teams within a business domain who strive to continually improve.
• Mentor and support Technical Leads and Engineers, inspiring excellence and supporting their professional growth and well-being.
• Develop strategic and near-term talent plan. Partner with the talent acquisition team to identify, interview, and onboard top engineering talent.
• Be a key player in shaping and maintaining a diverse, inclusive, and innovative engineering culture that resonates across the entire organisation.
• Establish and monitor success metrics, including delivery timelines, team efficiency, and the adoption of new technologies.
• Confident in technical leadership, take accountability for service levels across domain, creating approach to consistently achieve.

Job description

Location: Hybrid working, home & 2-4 days a month in Manchester + once a quarter trips to our Tech Hub, in Portugal!

Working Hours: Monday - Friday, 40 hours

Job Status: Permanent

Join the UK’s largest B2B used vehicle service

Constellation Automotive Group is the largest vertically integrated digital car marketplace in Europe, combining the leading digital brands across the segments of consumer to business, business to business and business to consumer.

British Car Auctions (BCA): The leading end to end fully digital B2B used car marketplace across the UK and Europe supported by its own in-house fulfilment and logistics services

cinch: is the market leading online used car dealership in the UK. cinch aims to take the faff out of buying a used car, offering the consumer a friendly way to search for and buy a quality-checked used car fully online.

WeBuyAnyCar: The UK’s largest digital vehicle buying service. The quick, easy, safe and convenient process that has helped over 2.5 million customers to sell their car.

Marshall Motor Group: 162 dealerships across the UK representing 26 leading manufacturers offering New and Approved Used cars and commercial vehicles, with services including vehicles maintenance, servicing, and repairs.

Main Purpose of The Role:

We’re looking for a visionary Head of Engineering to lead our Engineering Teams, providing strategic direction and driving operational efficiency. Your leadership will help shape our long-term strategy, ensuring that we have the right talent, processes and culture to succeed, while ensuring we deliver on our immediate commitments. Aligning technical initiatives to ensure we achieve our business goals sustainably.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build multiple effective, sustainable and outcome-aligned engineering teams within a business domain who strive to continually improve. Ensuring that our tech stack and solutions are lean, agile, future ready and scalable.
• An excellent and and persuasive communicator, who can influence others to think differently to achieve aligned outcomes. You will build strong relationships with stakeholders and colleagues across Constellation, ensuring alignment and collaboration.
• Mentor and support Technical Leads and Engineers, inspiring excellence and supporting their professional growth and well-being. Implement robust career development plans, regular 1:1s and feedback.
• Develop strategic and near-term talent plan. Partner with the talent acquisition team to identify, interview, and onboard top engineering talent, ensuring our team continues to grow in both skill and diversity.
• Be a key player in shaping and maintaining a diverse, inclusive, and innovative engineering culture that resonates across the entire organisation. Fostering a collaborative environment that supports hybrid ways of working. A culture champion who inspires excellence with a commercial mindset.
• Establish and monitor success metrics, including delivery timelines, team efficiency, and the adoption of new technologies. Driving cost effectiveness across technology.
• Confident in technical leadership, take accountability for service levels across domain, creating approach to consistently achieve. While balancing need to drive innovation, explore emerging technology, and contribute to strategic direction.
• You will be accountable for both team effectiveness and quality output, ensuring team alignment to outcomes. You will measure the success of your team through achieving business outcomes sustainably.
  • A track record of growing and building highly effective teams. Experience managing managers and leading large teams. You think big and are future thinking. You inspire others to try new things.
  • You have deep technical knowledge and experience with modern tech stacks and development methodologies, coupled with a passion for exploring new technologies. You are a polyglot by design.
  • You’re comfortable managing multiple streams of work, setting long -term goals and aligning them with the company’s strategic objectives.
  • You genuinely care about the well-being and professional growth of your team members, fostering an environment where they can thrive.
  • You excel at communicating complex ideas clearly, whether to engineers, stakeholders or senior leadership.
  • You believe in the power of diversity and inclusion, and you’re committed to building a workplace where everyone can have psychological safety and be their authentic selves.

We’ve put everything in place to ensure you thrive. Competitive salaries, strong core values and an excellent benefits package that includes:

• Onsite parking
• Company Pension Scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• An Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Access to trained Mental Health First Aiders
• Access to BCA Rewards which provides online and store discounts with a range of retailers
• And so much more…

As the automotive industry changes, we’re changing with it - putting our people in the front seat for the journey. We’re the number one in what we do for a reason and that’s because of the people we have on our teams. If you want to be a part of a business like this; unrivalled, exciting and appreciative of the work you do, join BCA.

We are proud to be Level 1 Disability Confident and committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible.

Our policy is to employ the best qualified people and provide equal opportunity for the advancement of employees including promotion and training and not to discriminate against any person because of gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or disability.