Business Stream Lead

Daimler Trucks North America LLC; Puchong; Hybrid; MYR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global automotive company is seeking a Business Stream Lead in Puchong, Malaysia. This role requires at least 10 years in Software Engineering and 5 years in leadership to guide international teams through transformation. The ideal candidate will excel in stakeholder management and possess strong communication skills. This position emphasizes employee development and strategic planning in a flexible work environment. A university degree in IT and fluency in English are essential. Remote working is possible.

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of working experience in Software Engineering.
• At least 5 years of leadership experience in strategic transformation.
• International working experience and cross-cultural competence.

Responsibilities

• Manage organizational unit with personnel and budget responsibility.
• Participate in strategy development and manage strategic developments.
• Support employees in their professional and personal development.

Skills

Fluent in English

Leadership experience

Stakeholder management

Communications skills

Agile practices understanding

Education

University degree in IT

Job description

Job Description - Business Stream Lead (MER0003WCN)

Job Description

Description

About Us

At Mercedes-Benz, we don’t just build cars, we create great software. We develop tomorrow’s mobility together in our product lines, pushing the digitization of the Mercedes-Benz Group AG forward. As a tech company, we are agile, innovative, and always keep our finger on the pulse of change. This is why inner source, FOSS, secure code, DevOps, infrastructure as code (IaC), data analytics, artificial intelligence, and many more are core components of our daily work.

IT is our passion, and we move toward a bright future, sometimes quickly, sometimes creatively but always together.

We believe in integrity, trust, and transparency as part of our flexible work culture, with a strong emphasis on teamwork and the learning process, making mistakes, and achieving continuous progress together in all products we create and develop within the Mercedes-Benz Group.

Our workplace is anywhere with a fast connection whether remotely at home, at your favorite café, or at our integrated office at Wisma Mercedes-Benz, which comes with an LRT station at its doorstep, an al fresco cafeteria, ample greenspaces, and free parking.

Business Driver

• Disciplinary responsibility of an organizational unit (team; cost center), whereby the focus here is on personnel and budget responsibility in particular
• Representing and positioning your own organizational unit to stakeholders as well as actively cooperating with business partners to create sustainable needs and generate new orders
• Analyzing, evaluating and planning key figures to be able to control one's own organizational unit according to financial aspects

Making personnel decisions regarding personnel selection, capacity management, as well as performance- and remuneration-relevant aspects

Transformational Leader

• Active participation in strategy development at the organizational level
• Translating and managing strategic developments for your own organizational unit

Operate active portfolio management to ensure strategic requirements

People Developer

• Accompaniment and support of employees in their professional and personal development
• Active management of team dynamics as well as individual orientation regarding expectations and development potential

General care for the employees responsible

Change Agent

• Ensuring a future‑proof orientation of your own organizational unit - in terms of collaboration models, product orientation, skill management, competence development and transformation capability
• Procedural, organizational and empathetic support of the employees responsible for changes

Promoting international collaboration at the Home of Tech level (in terms of content and culture)

Self‑Leader

• He practices self‑management, sets priorities, constantly questions his own role and controls himself and his own issues on his own responsibility

Qualifications

Requirements

Education: University degree or comparable in IT

Experience

• Fluent in English (spoken and written) and exceptional faculty of expression
• At least 10 years of working experience in Software Engineering areas, preferably in a large MNC
• At least 5 years of leadership experience to guide an international team through a strategic transformation process
• International working experience, cross‑cultural competence and remote working leadership capabilities
• Profound experience in customer, stakeholder and people management
• In-depth understanding of how to digitize and optimize processes

Excellent knowledge of Mercedes‑Benz brand and IT products

Specific knowledge

• Proactive and autonomous way of working, steering in a highly structured way
• High self‑motivation, resilience and prioritization capabilities in volatile IT environment
• Well‑developed communication & negotiation skills and assertiveness
• Technical background across a wide range of technologies, particularly software engineering, in order to be able to communicate with the teams in their language
• Good understanding of various industry standard agile practices (DevSecOps, CI/CD, Scrum, Kanban)
• Ability to build good relationships with colleagues at all hierarchical levels and in different roles to find access
• Entrepreneurial thinking and mindset
• Experience working with many international markets / business partners