R&D Manager

R&D Manager

Location: Leicester, UK

We are seeking an experienced and innovative R&D Manager for our office in Leicester. This full-time, office-based position (with one day of home office possible) involves managing a team of 4 developers and 2 QA engineers working across our products. The ideal candidate will be able to manage multiple products, propose development strategies, stay abreast of technological advancements, and oversee delivery, quality, cost, and recruitment.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Apply knowledge to practical issues often relating to more than one functional area.
• Provide overall direction for complex activities, offering guidance and input for any project.
• Resolve problems requiring analysis of facts and general principles.
• Manage work activities of the team through lower-level supervisors and individual contributors.
• Conduct appraisals, provide feedback to employees, and handle teamwork allocations.
• Adapt to various communication styles and interpret non-routine and conflicting information.
• Apply knowledge of relevant policies and procedures to determine a course of action.
• Exhibit good project and people management skills.
• Interact with internal and/or external clients and customers to negotiate and interpret information on projects and unit operations. May consult with senior management.
• Conduct project management, resource management, customer management, estimation, and release planning for multiple products.
• Create a motivational and positive culture within the team.

About You:

• Hands-on programming experience and strong technical knowledge
• Team management experience followed by excellent collaborative leadership and change management skills.
• Collaborative leadership skills and change management skills.
• Accountability, decision-making, and team management skills.
• The ability to motivate your team and be a role model for junior members.
• Excellent relationship-building skills and intercultural skills.
• Excellent written and spoken communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder communication and relationship-building skills.

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

“At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” -TVN Reddy 

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.