IT Team Leader

As an IT Leader, you’ll inspire and lead a high-performing regional or global technical team driving innovation and operational excellence. You’ll play a pivotal role in delivering impactful projects and exceptional support services while shaping strategy and elevating customer experience.

• Perform managerial activities such as hiring, performance management, associate development, department staffing, budgeting, and communicating and enforcing policies and procedures.
• Determine the specific resources and skills required for ongoing activities and provide leadership to staff all projects within your area of responsibility.
• Provide coaching to encourage career development, growth, and success for direct reports.
• Maintain an aggregate view of customer demand for IT support versus IT resource capacity. Evaluate resource availability and assign work based on priority and skill set. Assign production support (steady-state maintenance) tasks to application development resources.
• Design and use management reports to maximize IT resource utilization, and manage the review, selection, and implementation of relevant resource planning tools.
• Provide architectural recommendations, research, and proactively recommend tools, resources, and new technologies to meet operational requirements and customer needs. Work collaboratively and act as a trusted technology advisor for business leaders of the function.
• Plan, coordinate, and schedule assignments and projects with subordinates, and participate in establishing tactical plans on a global level.

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, MIS, Engineering or related discipline.
• 10+ years of technical experience in a variety of IT disciplines gaining a conceptual knowledge of information technologies and methodologies, including successfully developing and implementing applications and/or infrastructure systems using new and emerging technologies.
• Demonstrated competency in the execution of multiple projects, including managing resources across multiple projects to meet goals.

• Master’s degree preferred.
• Advanced knowledge of IT, with expertise in multiple specialty areas.
• Strong understanding of management principles and leadership best practices.
• Recognized technical expert in one or more IT disciplines, including networks, communications, hardware/software, web tools, enterprise systems, and emerging technologies.
• Proven leadership skills, including team building, motivation, delegation, and the ability to inspire and guide others.
• Experience in evaluating, recognizing, and leading organizational change initiatives.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to drive effective decision-making.

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Goodyear is one of the world's largest tire companies. It employs about 68,000 people and manufactures its products in 51 facilities in 19 countries around the world. Its two Innovation Centers in Akron, Ohio, and Colmar-Berg, Luxembourg, strive to develop state-of-the-art products and services that set the technology and performance standard for the industry. For more information about Goodyear and its products, go to

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Goodyear is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any characteristic protected by law.