Mgr Applications Sr

Responsibilities

• Leads a hard-working team of business systems analysts and developers and coordinates workforce planning and career development activities for team members
• Buils strong relationships with business partners and external vendors
• Drives standardization of application platforms across all dedicated business areas, enables simplification, and finds opportunities to fully use existing system functionality
• Creates a strategic roadmap for the business areas that align with overall IT strategy for the company
• Serves as a solution provider to business partners including evaluation and analysis of system changes and new systems
• Provides project leadership and management of business initiatives following project lifecycle, testing and all applicable policies and procedures
• Prepares, monitors and manages capital and expense budgets
• Owns and transforms IT service management practices, processes, and tooling
• Drives continuous improvement in service delivery and end-user experience
• Oversees the full lifecycle of hardware assets (PCs, mobile devices, circuits, peripherals) from procurement through disposition, including physical asset room operations
• Coordinates with Supply Chain on IT procurement processes
• Drives license optimization and cost management across the software portfolio – FinOps
• Maintains a reliable asset records that support incident, change, and configuration management
• Oversees enterprise software packaging for standardized deployment
• Builds a culture of accountability, operational rigor, and solution orientation

Qualifications

• Demonstrates excellent organizational/interpersonal skills and safety as the utmost priority
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Applications and PC skills
• PREFERRED: experience in service management or asset management
• PREFERRED: Demonstrated ability to manage vendor relationships and negotiate contracts
• PREFERRED: Familiarity with CMDB governance and asset lifecycle management

Other Requirements

• Exemplary vendor management skills
• Strong knowledge of technology trends and ability to translate those trends into effective business applications
• Experience partnering with leaders across IT and business to deliver a technology roadmap
• Preferred: Knowledge in implementation or support of cloud/SaaS applications
• Preferred: Experience in the energy or utility industries
• Preferred: Understanding of current and future state strategies for automation technology