Description

We're looking for a people leader to join our Motors team. In this role you'll be a people and culture leader, supporting your staff and their teams to achieve and extend their full potential. You'll have line management of up to 20 people across multiple teams.

This is a 6 month fixed term opportunity ideally starting from mid June until the Christmas break. 

You will be an integral part of our management team - alongside technical and delivery leaders. You play a key role in building a high-performing organization by building alignment between individual goals and our company vision and mission, and provide your team members with tailored coaching and mentoring opportunities.

As this role is more focused on people leadership, you will be supported by highly technical leaders, however, understanding the technology environment will be beneficial in unlocking the full potential of your people.

You'll have the best time working at Trade Me, and this is why:
#Learning
With dedicated 10% Learning and Development time we help to ensure you are growing with us from Day 1.

#Flexible
Flexible working is the new normal. We have our company connection day on Monday and there is another team connection day as well. We support you with a home office setup and a utilities allowance to ensure you can work comfortably

#Wellness
Being your best self means caring for your physical and mental wellbeing, we offer lots of resources to help you along the way.

#Social
Nothing beats getting together to have some fun and celebrate our success. Join us in the office on payday for company-paid lunches. Regular Friday drinks and nibbles, annual Trade Me company awards, celebrations and more.

Here is what you can expect from the role: 
* A team of engineers is built and developed, and they produce great results for their business unit and contribute to the wider business.
* A clear path for success is established for each of your employees, including ongoing honest feedback being provided on how to get them there.
* Your team feels motivated and empowered by their learning opportunities. 
* Your team members  know what they need to do and you're actively managing under performance with your people to ensure we are meeting our goals
* Strong relationships are formed with your peers in delivery, product, technology, HR, Talent and People Experience to get great outcomes from your team.
* A culture of high trust and high engagement is cultivated amongst the engineering team. 
* Your people understand and act in line with our culture and values.  
* You find and onboard great talent and contribute to workforce planning to ensure we have the right capabilities and capacity to deliver on our goals.
* Your team is working on the right things, they know how they contribute and they’re highly engaged with Trade Me. 
* You're seen as a champion of our values, living these daily.
* You're creating and fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.
* A strong collaboration is formed with lead software engineers to ensure engineers are supported from technical progression planning.
* Health & Safety is fundamental in how you operate. 
* You work at a strategic level with other Development Managers across Trade Me to make Trade Me Engineering a place kiwi want to work. 

What you will bring with you: 
* Rich experience (5 yrs) line managing technical people (10+ reports), ideally within a software development environment
* Care and kindness, expertly balanced with the ability to challenge and set clear expectations, to enable our people to be their best selves.
* Ability to liaise with technical leaders in your team and formulate a progression or improvement plan for your people,
* Expertise in shaping workplace culture, mentoring, coaching, conflict resolution, bringing people together and facilitating great conversations.
* Great relationship management, understanding what's important to key stakeholders and setting objectives that stretch and motivate the team to deliver to these and our strategic priorities.
* Excellence in recruiting software engineers who will positively add to our culture.
* Experience in designing long-term and strategic plans to improve people experience and engagement in your organization.

We know some candidates can be reluctant to apply for roles if they feel they don't 'tick all the boxes'. If you're excited about this opportunity, we'd still really like to hear from you.

At Trade Me, we're about connecting Kiwis to create the life they want. Whether it's the big things like finding a home, a job, a car or growing their business, or the smaller things, like finding that right bedside table or parting ways with some old stuff. At Trade Me our vision is to be the place where Kiwi's look first.

Trade Me is an INZ accredited employer. We truly value diversity and embrace a flexible workplace where people are encouraged to achieve their potential.