Team Lead

Post Production & Improvement Manager

Sevilla

Who We Are

As part of Solera, Autodata is the leading online source of technical information for cars, vans and motorcycles and we service our customers in more than 19 countries world-wide.

As trusted partners our quality data supports multiple customers providing comprehensive technical information for vehicle service, maintenance, diagnostic and repair procedures. We provide highly accurate information to the automotive industry, building strong customer relationships and a reputation we are proud of.

The Role

As Post production & Improvement Manager you are responsible for the overarching quality of data content, ensuring on time delivery to customers and management of workflow and processes between content creation and live product. You will promote improvements and innovation in the content and delivery using data and customer insight.

You will be an involved member of the Senior Management Team for Autodata and report into the Operations Director.

What You’ll Do
- Challenge and improve legacy organisational processes where it impacts the pace /quality of output.
- Take ownership of overarching quality for Autodata including; Creation and maintenance of the definition of quality and metrics for all teams, implementation of quality automation.
- Lead a team and set the pace, ensuring teams are working towards delivery commitments. Management of multidisciplined functions, quality, query management, translation, automation and content release.
- Influence and make positive changes to the organisation, maintaining delivery momentum. Solve issues and unblock problems.
- Define processes and procedures and contribute to business operating procedures for all business units.
- Identify and investigate operational opportunities and problems, seeking effective solutions through improvements in technology solutions and business processes.
- Implement and enhance processes, creating controls for query management.
- Implement and enhance processes, creating controls for an expanding automation and continuous improvement team, supporting all operations teams.
- Engage in elements of risk management such as effectively managing and tracking the mitigation of risks. You can manage various dependencies across teams, departments, Autodata and Solera as a whole.

Experience

What You’ll Bring
- Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a quality management/leadership role.
- Automotive and/or Publishing industry experience is desirable.
- Six Sigma / kaizen or similar process improvement experience with proven examples.
- University degree required. Technical degrees are strongly preferred (i.e. engineering, applied math, statistics, applied science, operations research, etc.)
- MS Office: Requires demonstrated knowledge of MS Excel and MS Powerpoint
- Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills.
- The ability to strive for optimal results by taking responsibility for timeliness, commitment to task and adherence to performance standards.
- The ability to create high added value analysis and presentations, manipulating different data sources
- The ability to understand a requirement to asses the scope, implications, added value and set clear expectations,

Skills/knowledge/ Competencies
- Open and communicative person, organized and innovative
- Excellent English both written and spoken
- Leadership skills with experience in managing multicultural teams.
- Proven track record of getting things done; able to take ownership; Energetic and passionate
- Good written and verbal skills
- Flexible. Self-starter. Must be able to manage own time successfully. Ability to work well under pressure
- Good teamwork skills with ability to deal with multiple internal clients and different departments
- Strong Knowledge about automotive business is desirable
- It is impossible to list every requirement for, or responsibility of, any position. Similarly, we cannot identify all the skills a position may require since job responsibilities and the Company’s needs may change over time. Therefore, the above job description is not comprehensive or exhaustive. The Company reserves the right to adjust, add to or eliminate any aspect of the above description. The Company also retains the right to require all employees to undertake additional or different job responsibilities when necessary to meet business needs._