Software Development Manager

Are you passionate, energetic and want to turn ideas into reliable and scalable software helping the world with healthy quality food? Then we have the challenge for you. With FOSS your leadership will have a long-lasting impact.

We have a legacy of developing innovative software solutions that set the standards within food analysis across the globe. Both as part of our cloud software and our analytical instruments.

The job

We are looking for a Software Development Manager for one of our software development teams. You will be reporting to the Director of Digital Solutions and will be responsible for continues development of our software across instrument software and cloud offerings.

Your primary role is to work with the team of skilled developers, to design and deliver the functionality fit for our customers, as well as driving continuous improvements forward in the team. You will be working closely together with many other engineering disciplines, as we are a true interdisciplinary engineering company.

You will be based at FOSS’ Innovation Center in Hillerød, working closely with internal stakeholders in both R&D, Service, Production & Supply chain, and Marketing amongst others. Additionally, you are strong in handling external stakeholders and communication.

You will be involved in the setting up new software projects - from early business identification and concept development through customer trials to launch and market implementation. Additionally, you will be involved in project reporting and closely working with our Programs organization. To balance the job, you hence need a sound understanding of:

  • Importance of customer needs to support projects in clear requirements and product specifications based on customer insights
  • Stakeholder management and communication to support project progress • Supporting product quality
  • Emerging software technologies and use of AI to secure our continued position as market leader

In addition to supporting new products and project, your responsibilities include:

  • Adding new applications to existing solutions
  • Ensure the wellbeing, motivation, and performance of your team
  • Have a genuine and personal interest in evolution of software development

Who are you?

We expect that you join us with:

  • 2-5 years of experience in people management of software development in complex organizations
  • A strong technical background (e.g., Engineer, MSc, or equivalent)
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong facilitation capabilities and a drive to nurture productive collaborations
  • You are curious, self-driven, and eager to understand our customers’ businesses to create impactful software where we understand our customers needs. You thrive on solving complex problems and developing improvements with clear business outcomes. While being a strong leader, you understand that leadership is balance between conviction and self-insight, and that you are never done learning.

You are structured and possess a “get up and go” attitude. Your ability to build strong relationships and communicate effectively is key to your success.

What does success look like?

You actively engage together with your team and have a proactive approach both to delivering new solutions, as well as dealing with problem solving. You can balance delivery of state-of-the-art products in a world quickly changing through supportive AI tools. Simultaneously, developing the skills and knowledge of the team through adaption of emerging technologies to make us not only a high-performance team but also foster state of the art engineers.

Working at FOSS

We offer a demanding and rewarding position in an international and innovative company, a global leader in its field.

Software Development is part of R&D and consist of more than 100 software professionals across our sites in Hillerød, Warsaw and Hungary.

Our culture is grounded in trust and teamwork. You will find a workplace where your ideas are welcomed, and where you can make a real impact.

Are you interested?

Submit your application and relevant documents through the link below. Please note that only applications submitted via the link will be considered. We conduct interviews on an ongoing basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

FOSS is committed to maintaining an inclusive culture and a diverse workforce. You can help us sustain an unbiased recruitment process by not including photo or age in your application.

Ansættelsestype: Permanent

Hjemmearbejde: Not disclosed

Ugentlig arbejdstid: Full-time

How to apply

Our goal is to make the recruitment process as professional and positive as possible. The recruitment process starts when you’ve submitted your application online. Vacant positions at FOSS do not always have an application deadline, so please apply today rather than tomorrow. The reason for this is that we want to ensure a fast and efficient process, which means that we review applications on an ongoing basis. Candidates who are invited for interviews will receive an invitation per email.

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Sustainability is an integral part of our business

At FOSS, we have a taken a holistic approach to Sustainability. It’s not only about conducting our business in a responsible and ethical manner. It’s also about developing solutions that make a difference in the world. We help our customers tackle difficult global challenges such as efficiency in food production, consistency in quality and food safety.

We are operating in a world with significant population growth, scarce resources, food safety scandals and growing concerns about the climate. As the leading business-to-business provider of dedicated analytical technology, we play a key role in this environment.

For example, our technology is increasingly important in expanding food supply by making rational use of increasingly limited resources, while ensuring the best quality food reaches the consumer. To address this challenge there is a need for the development of solutions that analyze and make data manageable and actionable throughout the production process. Information management of analytics will be the future of the food and feed industry, enabling producers to increase yields by being more efficient. Intelligent and automated processes that run on data will define our customers’ future production - and much of the 10% of our turnover we annually invest in research and development will be dedicated to this area.

Working at FOSS

We work on a global scale to develop the people working at FOSS. We strive to enhance job satisfaction and motivation by constantly improving the competencies of our managers as well as following up on employee satisfaction.

We know our employees are our strongest asset.

Therefore, we emphasise, invest in and appraise our employees’ knowledge, skills and attitudes, and take pride in creating an environment with trust, confidence and development. We also believe that clearly defined objectives enable people to achieve their performance potential and that the support from the immediate superior is essential. Most important of all; trained, well-motivated and competent employees are a perquisite for success in the future. We manage by values, but also clear objectives, and follow up through regular meetings between the employee and the manager. In these meetings, there is also room to discuss career aspirations and other development opportunities including internal career moves.

You will have the opportunity for internal career development.

As a company, we are small enough for you to get high influence in the job, but we are also big enough for complex development and global careers. If you want to move in a new direction and continue to develop along with your professional capable colleagues, we offer the opportunity for internal career moves inside FOSS. As we are a knowledge-heavy company, this is a win-win scenario for both FOSS and our employees.

Work with creative and professionally strong colleagues.

Teamwork is essential to FOSS. By developing solutions in cross-functional teams, we integrate knowledge, experience and competences from many perspectives to achieve great results. We communicate in a straight-forward manner and solve challenges together. In FOSS, we truly value that you voice your opinion, take responsibility and ownership. Our company size in turn allows for independent, dynamic and fast decisions.

If you join FOSS, we promise you that you will enter an environment with new learnings through projects, new technologies and market opportunities. We love to be entrepreneurial and open-minded to new ideas, and if you get a good idea – you can bring it forward.

Join a company with a clear business idea and purpose, but also strong values.

In a global world with a growing population, there is an ever-increasing demand for safer food, production that is more efficient and less food waste. Globally, we need to produce as much food the next 40 years as the last 8,000 years to meet the needs of a growing population and declining natural resources. A huge challenge, which requires that we become better at utilizing the resources available.

The business vision of FOSS to contribute to a more sustainable use of increasingly valuable agricultural resources, and to the nutrition and health of the people of the world. We provide the industry’s best analytics, which add value to our customers by improving quality and optimising food and agricultural production.

Join FOSS, and you will be part of this mission, more relevant today than ever. 

Meet our employees

Meet Jan – manager of Concept Development in Research & Development

Jan’s daily work as a manager in Concept Development consists of generating new ideas in collaboration with his team and deciding which ideas should be developed. The daily challenge of finding the right solutions to address the needs of our customers is solved by a diverse and competent group of specialists working together.



Meet Mariana – Chemometrician in Research & Development

Mariana is a Spanish Chemometrician specialised in NIR. Coming from a research background her move to FOSS was motivated by a desire to work with real products and real customers. AT FOSS she is involved in the innovation of new products, developing calibrations for the EyeFoss image analysis grain analyser.

About FOSS

FOSS creates end-to-end solutions that secure and improve food quality. From raw material to finished product. Our analysis instruments refine measurements into information management that enables businesses to run intelligent data-driven productions with less waste and bigger yields. Controlling cost and quality across all sectors and value chains, we help food and agricultural producers limit the number of human errors, scale their business faster and reduce manual labour as well as labour costs. We call it analytics beyond measure.

Over the last 60 years, we have made it our business to define the standard of analytical solutions for the food and agricultural industry. We pioneered advanced analysis for the challenging production environments in the 1960’s, and we were the first to integrate chemical composition analysis in process lines. Now our resolve and ambition have also made us the international benchmark in the field of chemometrics and real time analytics.

FOSS is a 100% family-owned company and the leading supplier of innovative analytical solutions; 98 percent of FOSS’ business is generated outside Denmark. FOSS has more than 100 patents and more than 20 world-first product introductions. FOSS employs more than 1700 dedicated people worldwide and has manufacturing, research and development facilities in Denmark and China. Solutions are sold and supported through FOSS sales and service companies in 28 countries and by more than 75 distributors. Many employees have a top-level scientific or technical background, including more than 130 Master of Science and more than 20 PhDs in areas such as photonics, chemometrics, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, fermentation and bio-engineering, astrophysics, optical communication, physics, quality, nanotechnology, food science and adaptive radiotherapy. We also employ many factory-trained and certified support engineers stationed close to our customers.

FOSS

Foss Allé 1

DK-3400 Hilleroed

Denmark

Phone: +45 70 10 33 70

E-mail: info@foss.dk