Vice President

4 weeks ago

Montréal QC, Canada Stonewood Group Inc. Full time

Our client is a profitable, publicly traded Canadian software company which provides powerful business solutions to enterprise clients around the world. The company’s mission is to deliver the highest value to its clients, with unparalleled industry solutions that are based on their advanced proven technologies and feature-rich enterprise suite of applications, professionally delivered with the breadth and depth of expertise harnessed by their employees.
The firm’s solutions can be deployed as an integrated suite or as stand-alone best-of-breed components. The company’s customers feature about hundreds of mid-size and Fortune 1000 corporations across a range of vertical markets.
Though the firm continues to grow organically it has also completed several key acquisitions. Managing and leveraging these technologies across the organization continues to present significant opportunities for the firm. The technology aspects of this collective task will be the responsibility of the new Vice-President Research and Development
Broadly, the objective of the role of the VP Research and Development is to cultivate an environment that attracts, deploys and retains the human and other resources required to effectively develop, deliver and support products that will provide value to the company’s customers, while meeting the business strategy and goals for profitable growth.
Reporting to the President and CEO, the VP Research and Development is responsible for providing leadership in all activities related to the development and delivery of the company’s diverse products from definition and specification through design, release, enhancement, quality assurance, implementation and support.
The specific functional departments reporting to the Vice-President Research and Development include engineering and product management. Manage direct reports, along with their goal setting, performance measurement and development feedback. Work with the senior management team to deliver and support the company’s product roadmap consistent with and reflecting the company’s overall strategic plans for corporate growth
Develop and document corporate plans and systems for product development
Develop reliable, robust software on-time, within cost targets, using accepted, state of the art methodologies balancing the demands of release content, quality and desired release dates.
Manage the overall engineering budget
Audit existing and establish new scalable development platforms and processes which meet current organizational requirements, anticipates future growth and complexity and balance the need for predictability and creative license
Maintain keen awareness of the trends and conditions in technology, products and development tools relative to the needs of the company’s customers and business
Establish key indicators for competitive performance in completion of development projects and for rapid, realistic decisions on strategies, plans and projects
Maintain an awareness of all applicable public support for development activities and for human resource development
Align the product development organization’s activities with the company goals and strategic direction, as well as with the company’s corporate values in areas such as people, integrity, passion and innovation
Build and facilitate the development of strong relationships and synergy with all other areas of the company, with key suppliers and with the company’s technical partners in order to achieve the corporate goals and objectives while executing product and technology development plans
Foster an environment that enables highly technical staff to consistently perform with excellence, to set and meet personal and team goals, and to develop and be recognized for world-class competence in their field(s) within the context of the company’s software development programs
Key Performance Deliverables
Cycle time excellence and on-time product delivery to market
Quality and customer satisfaction in both custom and packaged development initiatives
Development of staff eg. Goals completed, performance reviews completed etc
Functionality and performance
Budget management as well as product cost
to market changes, customers
Achievement of overall corporate goals
The following competencies listed below define the role of Vice-President Research and Development
Planning & Objective Setting
Is realistic about time-scales and builds in appropriate checkpoints, milestones and controls in order to ensure that desired results are realized.
Aims to improve upon past performance. Helps to create a sense of team spirit and harmonious relations through cooperation and support. Demonstrates critical technical or professional knowledge/skills related to the role. Expands technical knowledge/skills and keeps up-to-date in own area of expertise.
People Management
Establishes and communicates clear priorities and sense of direction. Adapts management style to achieve optimum results.
Commercial Acumen
Applies appropriate commercial and financial principles. Appreciates the commercial impact of own work on the organization’s total expenses and revenues.
Attentive to the internal politics and alert to shifting interpersonal dynamics. Establishes the necessary support networks and cross-functional relationships through rapport building. The following indicates specific industry, academic and functional experience/qualifications that are important to the successful achievement of the identified responsibilities and performance deliverables.
Experience in managing engineering teams of 50+ with multiple product lines
Varied experience with productivity and quality enhancing engineering methodologies including Agile
Proven experience in having scaled engineering organizations through the judicious implementation of tighter process/methodology while preserving the positive elements of the core entrepreneurial and creative culture.
Outstanding people skills to be applied within the engineering organization as well as across the executive team.
Proven experience in managing development organizations addressing both ‘off the shelf’ and custom product development initiatives
Proven ability to manage both revenues and cost
Management experience within an enterprise software environment of similar size or larger

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