The assignment goes beyond merely ensuring daily continuity; there is a clear development objective. The team's foundation needs to be further strengthened in terms of business operations, steering, collaboration, and future-oriented work. The goal is to establish a solid foundation upon which the department can sustainably build. By the end of the assignment, there will be a team with a strong organizational and operational basis.
The team manager will actively contribute to the further development of the department and the implementation of improvements stemming from an ongoing development process. This will enable the organization to collaborate more integrally, act in a future-oriented manner, and sustainably increase its implementation power. The team will also have undergone visible development towards a more proactive, future-oriented, and integrated way of working.
Employees will be better able to identify developments in a timely manner, look beyond the boundaries of their expertise, and contribute to the organization's challenges from a shared perspective. The team manager will thus leave behind a solid foundation upon which the department head and employees can sustainably continue further development.
What you will do.
- Provide daily leadership to employees and create a professional, safe, and results-oriented work environment.
- Be visible, approachable, and accessible to employees.
- Stimulate ownership, collaboration, and professional development.
- Combine people-oriented leadership with clear frameworks, accountability for results, and expectations.
- Create a work environment where employees can optimally utilize their expertise in service of the department's shared mission.
- Dare to make decisions and demonstrate natural authority and perseverance to actually realize necessary changes.
- Further organize and strengthen the team's operational foundation where necessary.
- Manage personnel management, staffing and occupancy, capacity planning, budgets, payroll, and hour accountability on projects.
- Bring structure, overview, and discipline to daily business operations.
- Analyze bottlenecks and translate improvements into concrete results.
- Contribute to a culture where foresight, programming, and integrated planning become more natural.
- Promote a culture where the interests of the department, the spatial assignment, and the organization outweigh the interests of individual disciplines or professional groups.
- Encourage employees to advise from an integrated perspective and actively contribute to shared results.
- Create clarity about roles, responsibilities, and expectations, so that decision-making and execution are more effective.
- Manage progress, agreements, and results, and hold employees accountable for them.
- Actively contribute to department-wide issues and portfolio management within the MT.
- Be a full and active member of the MT.
- Bear responsibility for one's own team and for the broader interests of the department.
- Act as a sparring partner for the other team manager and the department head.
- Act with connection, integrity, and shared ownership.
Profile
You are integrally responsible for a spatial design team. You lead approximately 46 employees divided among the professional groups Urban Planning, Landscape, and Assets & Advice.
What they ask
- The submitted CV must not exceed 5 single-sided A4 pages.
- The candidate will primarily perform the work at a location designated by the client for at least three full working days per week.
- The candidate must have at least a demonstrably completed HBO bachelor's degree.
- The candidate has, as of the final submission date, in the preceding eight years, a total of at least 24 months of experience as an integral manager of an organizational unit of simultaneously at least 15 employees within a complex administrative or complex public organization.
- The candidate has, as of the final submission date, in the preceding eight years, led and implemented at least one change assignment of at least six consecutive months as an integral manager. The change assignment was focused on team, organizational, cultural, or operational development. The candidate was responsible for both the execution and the safeguarding of the change.
- The candidate has simultaneously held responsibility for personnel management, staffing management, financial steering, and capacity planning for at least twelve months as an integral manager.
- The candidate agrees to the stated secondment condition.
Preferences.
- Demonstrable work experience as an integral manager within a complex administrative or complex public organization.
- Demonstrable work experience as a manager within the physical domain (spatial development, urban planning, landscape, area development, public space, mobility, real estate, or land affairs).
- In the past eight years, led and implemented change assignments as a manager, focused on team, organizational, cultural, or operational development, with responsibility for implementation and involvement for at least six months, and with concrete results mentioned in the CV.
- Led a team of at least 15 employees for at least two consecutive years.
Competencies.
- Results-oriented
- Able to effectively realize changes
- People-oriented leader with an eye for employees and team development
- Strong in business administration
- Analytically skilled
- Steadfast
- Decisive
- Possesses natural authority
- Connecting
- Strong communicator
- Organizationally sensitive
- Administratively aware
- Future-oriented
- Able to connect operational issues to strategic goals
- Mature as an MT member
- Constructive as an MT member
- As an MT member, looks beyond one's own team
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