IT Applications Manager

IT Applications Manager

Location: Glasgow | Full Time | Permanent

About the Role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced IT Applications Manager to join a dynamic and growing organisation. Reporting to the Group IT Director, you will be responsible for managing the enterprise applications landscape, ensuring the effective deployment, maintenance, and support of business-critical systems.

This role will lead a geographically dispersed team and oversee vendor relationships while driving system improvements, ensuring application reliability, and delivering high levels of user satisfaction.

You will play a key role in shaping the organisations future applications landscape, contributing to digital transformation initiatives and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a multi-location Applications team responsible for ERP and other key business applications.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Architecture team to review and optimise the applications landscape.
• Simplify a complex applications environment while supporting critical business requirements.
• Manage the full lifecycle of key business applications, ensuring their availability, reliability, and performance.
• Oversee application-related budgets and vendor relationships.
• Partner with the IT Project Management Office to plan and coordinate application-related projects and changes.
• Ensure the Applications team meets service level targets and delivers high colleague satisfaction.
• Act as a key contact for internal stakeholders and external vendors regarding applications.
• Ensure application security, compliance, and alignment with IT governance.
• Stay informed about emerging technologies and assess opportunities for business improvement.

Skills & Experience

Essential:

• Proven experience in an IT applications management or leadership role.
• Experience leading multi-geographical teams.
• Strong knowledge of enterprise applications and ERP solutions.
• Experience in digital transformation, including cloud and SaaS migration.
• Solid understanding of application integration and cloud technologies.
• Proven project management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

Desirable:

• Experience within regulated industries, ideally life sciences.
• Exposure to M&A activities and the associated systems integration.

If you are an experienced IT Applications Manager looking to lead impactful projects in a supportive and evolving environment, we would love to hear from you