Senior IT Manager
Short Description
We are looking for an experienced Senior IT Manager – Enterprise Applications to join a stable, market-leading international company and take ownership of a critical business application landscape.This is a hands-on leadership role with significant influence across both IT and the business. You will lead a team of experienced IT professionals, own the application lifecycle within your business domain, and drive the evolution of an SAP-based environment to deliver scalable, innovative solutions that create measurable business value.You will operate at the intersection of technology, business strategy and delivery—translating business needs into effective technology solutions while ensuring the reliability, scalability and continuous improvement of the application landscape.
Description
Lead People & Technology
- Lead, coach and develop a small team of highly skilled IT and application professionals
- Set priorities, establish clear objectives and create an environment of ownership, collaboration and continuous improvement
- Provide technical and strategic direction across the application portfolio
- Take end-to-end ownership of the enterprise application portfolio within your business domain
- Manage the full lifecycle of SAP-based applications—from operations and support through continuous improvement, transformation and retirement
- Ensure applications remain secure, scalable, integrated and aligned with business requirements
- Define and maintain application roadmaps and investment priorities
- Act as a trusted technology partner and primary interface between business stakeholders and IT
- Understand business challenges and translate them into pragmatic, scalable technology solutions
- Challenge requirements where appropriate and identify opportunities to simplify, automate and improve processes
- Ensure technology investments deliver tangible business outcomes
- Lead complex IT initiatives and projects from concept through implementation and handover to operations
- Coordinate internal teams, business stakeholders and external delivery partners
- Drive innovation across the application landscape, including opportunities in automation, AI and digitalisation
- Evaluate new technologies and translate relevant developments into practical business solutions
- Select, manage and challenge external partners, consultants and technology vendors
- Ensure delivery quality, timelines, budgets and service levels meet expectations
- Establish effective governance across projects, applications and third-party services
Requirements
- Several years of experience in IT leadership, application management or enterprise systems
- Proven experience leading and developing technical teams
- Strong hands-on understanding of the SAP ecosystem, ideally including SAP S/4HANA and SAP BTP
- Experience managing enterprise applications across their full lifecycle
- Solid understanding of system integrations, APIs and enterprise application architecture
- Sufficient development knowledge to effectively engage with technical teams, for example ABAP and SAP Fiori
- Demonstrated experience delivering complex IT projects and business transformation initiatives
- Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences
- A pragmatic, business-oriented mindset with a strong focus on outcomes rather than technology for its own sake
- Fluent professional English
- Experience with SAP AI, automation or intelligent business solutions
- Knowledge of Microsoft Power Platform
- Experience working in a multinational / international organisation
- Exposure to Enterprise Architecture, technology roadmaps or IT strategy
- Experience with SAP integration technologies and modern cloud architectures
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