Job Summary: Deliver IT projects on time, to scope and within budget, and ensure all relevant applications are available per SLA. Lead a team of functional analysts, developers and reporting specialists to support ERP, HCM, BI, CRM and other application needs. Create a culture of high performance, continuous optimisation and cost effectiveness and manage team performance. Serve as the Centre of Excellence for applications under the control of the Applications team providing expertise on application functionality, roadmaps and vendor future plans. Support CIO and Enterprise Architecture Director in critical review of Application Roadmaps and serve as point of escalation for Program Manager. Establish, communicate, manage and enforce appropriate change and release management, test and quality mechanisms. In conjunction with Portfolio Management Director pro-actively plan future IT resource requirements with third-party suppliers for both projects and application support. Review business cases to assess all application impacts and own all business cases and RFI/RFP/RFQ related to any applications related work. Work closely with the Project Delivery Director to deliver projects on time, scope and budget and work closely with the Service Delivery Director to support applications to meet business objectives. Manage large scale application configurations and development, as well as large scale projects. Manage development teams by providing guidance and leadership where necessary. Manage and grow talent. Business stakeholder management. Plan and estimate new projects based on approved prioritised projects and new solutions.
Requirements: - 8+ years in leading large teams (with proven results)
- 8+ years of application development and management experience
- 8+ years in managing suppliers and large contracts
- Experience in Architecture and testing and test management an advantage
- Experience in Project Management an advantage
- Experience in working in a Delivery Centre environment an advantage
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