Manager, Application Management

What You’ll Do

The Manager, Application Management will assist in the evolution and management of the enterprise service offerings within the IT Business Systems group, with a particular focus on supporting the Finance department. Reporting to the Director, Business Systems, the Manager will be responsible for defining and managing vendor and application management processes for new business applications, as well as enhancing existing processes for current business applications.

This individual will be part of a team that bridges the gap between Finance, other business teams, vendors, technology partners, and internal IT teams to operate and maintain key technology platforms. The successful candidate must be willing to work across business units, possess a strong understanding of enterprise IT service delivery models, and have expert knowledge of SDLC methodologies.

Core competencies include strategic roadmap definition and execution, release management, vendor management, learning agility, expectation and relationship management, problem-solving, and strong analytical and communication skills.

What you’ll be working on

Application Management

• Create, champion and implement vision for formal application management processes including identifying, developing and managing policies, procedures, templates and other documentation
• Become subject matter expert and create supporting documentation toolkit(s) for application/ system(s) (i.e., logical and technical landscape architecture documentation, integration documentation (APIs, ETLs, SFTPs, flat files))
• Implement and maintain documentation for system-specific user role matrices in terms of CRUD (create, read, update, and delete), segregation of duties (SOD) documentation, as well as document integration/interface and data dictionaries

Business Expectation Management

• Partner with business stakeholders to define scope and priorities for application and/or system initiatives (new projects and ongoing maintenance), and ensure understanding of key business objectives to support analysis and solution definition
• Serve as a key liaison between business stakeholders and users, technology teams and vendor(s)
• Participate in value stream discussions to identify the current state processes; and elicit, identify and document potential opportunities for improvements
• Manage application development projects and initiatives in a program management capacity, partnering with business teams and the vendor(s)
• Manage and partner with business teams and vendors to plan, test, and release upgrades and initiatives such as maintenance releases, major releases, API integrations, SSO integrations, etc.
• Plan, facilitate, and manage end user training with business stakeholders for new releases and upgrades where applicable, leveraging vendors and internal business partners where possible

Vendor Management

• Act as point of contact for all production issues or requests, working with business stakeholders to identify priority, and with vendors to triage, analyze and solution
• Manage to the contractual obligations with vendors, including SLAs, licenses, upgrades, maintenance, defects, and enhancements; may require review and management of Statements of Work (SOW) for new enhancements with vendors
• Manage contractual production defect remediation SLAs with vendor solution providers by collecting and managing data metrics, communicating defaults, and ensuring credits are provided, where applicable
• Manage internal and external teams to ensure successful delivery of key application initiatives, upgrades and integrations

Release and Compliance Management

• Oversee all release management tasks, including working with vendor and business users to plan, test and deploy all application releases, while driving, managing, and implementing essential SDLC methods using test environments, generating test data libraries, managing non-production defect remediation, defining and managing User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and ensuring completion of all SOX and/or internal audit required documentation
• Maintain audit documentation and comply with all internal and external audit requirements for user access and change management
• Foster collaboration among cross-functional partners to keep them informed of related projects and other cross-functional development requests
• Ensure that business decisions and processes made are in compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley

Must Haves:

• BS degree in computer science or equivalent experience
• Minimum 8 years of demonstrated experience and proficiency in application management, vendor management, and release management
• Minimum 5 years of demonstrated experience in customer technical support, with a focus on SaaS solutions at a enterprise level
• Experience installing and leading the adoption of best practice processes, methods, and technologies
• Distinctive people skills with a proven track record of influencing, driving change, and stakeholder management, with a bias for excellent customer service
• Experience managing solutions such as ERP, CPM, NetSuite, and EPM
• Superior problem-solving skills, in both ambiguous and tactical situations, and a bias for action
• Strong organization skills with ability to organize others around you
• Demonstrated flexibility and ability to perform in a dynamic environment, and comfort working in ambiguity
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills and expert meeting planning and facilitation skills
• Ability to provide on-call support, as needed (i.e., critical production incident, planned production release) which could be during non-standard business hours such as weekend, evening, or support of global users (i.e., UK)

Primary Salary Location:

$120,000 - $140,000