General Manager, Business Stream Lead

Mercedes-Benz Malaysia; Puchong; On-site; MYR 150,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading automotive company in Puchong, Malaysia, seeks a Business Driver responsible for managing personnel and budget within an organizational unit. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years in Software Engineering, excellent leadership skills, and experience in guiding international teams through transformation. The role emphasizes strategic development, employee support, and requires strong communication and negotiation skills. Join a dynamic team that values innovation and pushing digital boundaries.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of working experience in Software Engineering.
• 5+ years of leadership experience guiding international teams.
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written.

Responsibilities

• Manage personnel and budget responsibility.
• Develop and execute strategic transformations.
• Support employees in their professional development.

Skills

Fluent in English

Strong communication and negotiation skills

Leadership teamwork

Agile practices knowledge

Entrepreneurial thinking

Education

University degree in IT

Job 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.

Job Description

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

Transformatinal 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

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
• Proven track record in developing complex digital products
• 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