Business Applications Manager

Posted 8 May by Jumar Solutions
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£59,000 - £73,000 per annum
West Midlands (Region) , England
Permanent, full-time
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Posted by Jumar Solutions
Business Applications Manager 
Full time Permanent
Excellent starting salary plus £6,000 per annum car allowance and superb coprorate benefits package
Roles will be hybrid working, 2 days per week in Walsall office

An accomplished, Midlands based Business Applications Manager is required to join a leading retail business in Walsall during a period of impressive success and growth.

This full time position will have 4 direct reports, and the succesful candidate will need to be able to challenge the leadership team and drive the applications (8 core), product, finance, HR, payroll, warehouse, transport/distribution. 

The role - 
  • Responsible for the application and the future functional development
  • Represent Application team at the technology Governance meetings
  • Design, develop and maintain the product based future applications state, standards and group wide governance ensuring systems are fully aligned to customer and operational requirements
  • Ensure User Acceptance Testing and end user training are completed for all application changes
  • Provide advice and consultancy to the business about the operating model, and to further develop and lever this through opportunities you will either be alerted to or create
  • Lead and develop the Applications capability across the business, establishing a baseline organisational design required for each functional area of the business to take responsibility for the ownership and development of capabilities within each platform
  • Advise and recommend on upgrading existing systems and installing new new software to make sure there are no issues
  • Engage technology and Information Security resource as required to ensure alignment to IT strategy, architecture, principles and safe service introduction of applications
  • Manage risks and issues associated with the application landscape and escalate where necessary
Technical Skills:
  • High technical understanding of IT systems and interface methods
  • Strong Planning/Project Management skills
  • WMS experience would be ideal (Manhattan, PKMS, Microlise, Blue Yonder)
  • Ability to People Manage to assist in the development of a team
  • Previous experience in a Solution Architect role

If you are interested in the role and would like to apply, please do so by clicking the link, or contacting Jackie Dean at Jumar for immediate consideration.

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Reference: 52605844

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