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, West Midlands 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 succesful candidate will come from a technical background so they are able to cover off the Solution Architecture piece as part of the role.

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
• Previous experience in a Solution Architect role
• 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

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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