ENGINEERING MANAGER - STRATEGIC FLEET PLANNING

Job Description Join us at Sixt Portugal as a Software Engineering Manager and immerse yourself in an exciting journey of tech innovation in the heart of Lisbon! You will be leading a team of software engineers which do projects in the revenue management area with focus on getting the most out of our fleet.
One is an ambitious project focused on optimizing fleet planning for the future.
Aims to understand, predict, and plan the perfect fleet for the upcoming year by analyzing historical and forecasted demand alongside costs, the goal is to maximize margins, enhance utilization, and secure a leading position in the market ahead of our competition.
Another one, also critical but more on tactical and immediate decisions, that seeks to manage the current fleet available for renting and take data backed decisions - past and forecasted data - regarding fleet movements across branches, ensuring the optimal margin transfers, infleet optimization to ensure right cars are delivered to right place and defleet optimization to optimize decisions related to earlier/later defleets and respective cost aspects.
These aren’t just normal projects but rather massive cross-functional initiatives that brings together software engineering, data science, business intelligence, and analytics and that will for sure shape and revolutionize the future of SIXT as a leading mobility platform.
Your expertise will be at the forefront of driving innovation, streamlining operations, and ultimately shaping the future success of Sixt.
Get ready to collaborate with diverse teams and tackle challenges head-on as we pave the way for excellence.
DO WHAT YOU LOVE.
You will lead and grow a team of smart software engineers on a mission of constant development, enabling them to meet their personal and organizational goals.
You evangelize modern engineering practices and empower engineers to make technical decisions.
engineering manager != tech lead You embody servant leadership, prioritizing serving and empowering your team rather than exerting control.
You champion autonomous teams, guiding them through decision-making processes.
With innate people skills, you adeptly coach, mentor, and inspire others to elevate their abilities.
You possess a product mindset, collaborating closely with the product owner to shape the product vision, while also demonstrating an understanding of and proficiency in managing the delicate balance between time to market and accumulating technical debt.
You understand that it is all about execution and delivery of value, even when roadmaps and priorities change often.
You do not limit yourself by boundaries between IT and other departments.
Qualifications COME AS YOU ARE.
You have proven experience in managing and leading software engineering teams to success.
You have a strong technical background that that you have applied numerous times in different complex projects.
You have worked with AWS, Azure or GCP.
You have strong communication skills and able to adapt your language to the audience – more technical when speaking with engineers, more functional when speaking with stakeholders.
You are knowledgeable about agile methodologies and their application in dynamic environments.
You recognize the value of feedback, both when offering it and when receiving it, viewing it as a gift that fuels growth and development.
Additional Information YOUR BENEFITS.
Working at SIXT not only means creating the future of mobility, but also offers personal benefits.
This means especially for you.
28 days of vacation, no dress code, a hybrid working model and flexible working hours.
In our modern office, with new equipment, you can stock up on coffee at any time and spend your lunch break with colleagues in the on-site restaurant that provides healthy and delicious food for everyone.
Moreover, we offer you a super international working environment, numerous trainings for your individual development, participation in external conferences and we even organize internal dev & tech talks.
It is very important to us that you can develop personally and grow within our company.
Furthermore, you can benefit from our Coverflex advantage system.
With this system you can select the benefits you want - This way you can decide for yourself what you want to use your benefits for! In addition, your colleagues are pretty awesome.
Which is important when you spend so much time together, and besides, no wonder when you get a bonus for referring friends as new employees.
Otherwise, we live "work hard, play hard" - our parties are legendary! We also demand and promote DiverSIXTy, a corporate culture of acceptance, appreciation, and respect, in which everyone can develop their personality and ideas.
About us.
We are a leading global mobility service provider with sales of €3.
billion and around employees worldwide.
Our mobility platform ONE combines our products SIXT rent (car rental), SIXT share (car sharing), SIXT ride (cab, driver and chauffeur services), SIXT+ (car subscription) and gives our customers access to our fleet of vehicles, the services of cooperation partners and around 1.
million drivers worldwide.
Together with our franchise partners, we are present in more than 110 countries at rental stations.
At SIXT, a first-class customer experience and outstanding customer service are our top priorities.
We focus on true entrepreneurship and long-term stability and align our corporate strategy with foresight.
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