Requirements: English
Company: Esko
Region: Ghent , Flanders
Can you imagine
- A high-profile Software Engineering Manager role in a market-leading international software company that is part of a global, multi-$bn group
- Delivering transformative business benefits that impact both company employees and customers
- Combining team leadership, Agile/Scrum expertise, stakeholder engagement skills, and an understanding of software licencing processes relevant to a software company
The Opportunity
Esko is a leading international provider of software, hardware and services to clients around the world, enabling them to produce the best packaging for billions of consumers.
Reporting to the CIO and based within Eskos growing, internal IT Business Applications group of ~90 staff, the Software Engineering Manager is a hybrid role (2 days a week at our Ghent HQ and 3 days working from home in Belgium), pivotal to our transformation to a Digital organization, and serves as a critical link between the Business, IT, and Software Engineering.
The Software Engineering Manager will lead a team of 6 in Belgium & India, developing a broad range of applications and tools in C# .Net for our internal business users, as well as enabling customers to access our software on-premise & SaaS via software licencing keys.
This is a highly visible role in a dynamic, fast-evolving company, that offers stimulating challenges and excellent career development opportunities.
Key Responsibilities:
Team & People Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for the development team, addressing bugs, customer issues, and production incidents. Monitor and balance workload, lead hiring, onboarding, and performance management
- Foster a culture of continuous learning, mentorship, and career growth
Stakeholder Collaboration & Requirements Management
- liaise between Business, IT, and Development teams, ensuring alignment on goals and priorities
- Conduct regular stakeholder meetings (Customer Support, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, SFDC, etc.) to gather business needs and translate them into well-defined epics and tasks that are refined and optimized
Backlog & Sprint Management
- Manage, prioritize, and refine the product backlog, ensuring alignment with the roadmap and business objectives. Facilitate sprint planning, backlog grooming, and retrospectives to drive efficiency and productivity. Work closely with the Scrum Master to enforce agile practices and ensure smooth development cycles
Project & Risk Management
- Oversee risks, anticipate roadblocks, and coordinate across technical teams to mitigate development bottlenecks. Collaborate with architecture, security, and operations teams to manage dependencies, legacy systems, and integrations
- Drive process improvements and automation to optimize development workflows and minimize technical debt
The Ideal Candidate
- Proven software engineering team management (ideally C# .Net focus), including strong Agile/Scrum experience
- Excellent communication and stakeholder relationship management skills to effectively collaborate across technical and non-technical teams
- Proven Experience in agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and backlog management tools (Jira, Azure DevOps, etc.)
- Good understanding of Licensing processes that face a software company (SaaS especially relevant)
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects while working in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
- Knowledge of legacy systems and integrations in complex IT landscapes is a strong plus (driving continuous improvement and optimizing workflows across complex legacy systems and integrations)
- You must live in Belgium and be able to be in the Ghent HQ twice a week
About Esko
Esko is an award-winning global provider of software and hardware solutions for packaging, labels, and display industries. With 1700 people worldwide, Esko is part of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a family of companies and nearly 17,000 associates dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods.
When you join Veralto, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where youll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we