Application Manager

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It is our ambition to ensure business continuity for Platforms & Applications services in Project Management area. We deliver services in alignment with customers' needs, with honesty and transparency and work to achieve Platforms & Applications landscape simplification & standardization jointly with the Business. We are looking for you as a new member of our dynamic and international team!

• Manage application from its initial planning, development through retirement (decommissioning).
• Monitor everyday operations of application development team and provide regular feedback.
• Work with business and IT teams and manage all project requirements.
• Manage, plan, schedule and control an application or platform build through different stages (including testing and deploying) and environments.
• Collaborate with architects, quality testers, application specialist to achieve quality deliverables.
• Collaborate with 3rd party vendors to ensure applications operations and continuity
• Consider and manage IT controls, regulatory and legal requirements while designing, delivering and running platforms, applications and services.
• Understand business processes supported by your applications
• Build and maintain relationship with your applications end users community, direct as well as represented by SPOCs
• Build your application roadmap based on utilized technology roadmap
• Ensures operational records and data are up to date and correct including licenses and contracts, alerting of any expiration dates
• Understand business case behind the application and its business use;

• At least Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems or equivalent experience in the IT area.
• Minimum 2 years of experience managing global application/services or implementation projects;
• PowerBI, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence knowledge/experience is an advantage.
• Proven experience of working with IT service management concepts (ITIL).
• Ability to take ownership
• Good organization, time management, decision making and negotiation skills.
• Responsibility for end-to-end delivery, independence, discipline.
• Ability to promote a team environment with strong leadership skills, support the importance of team spirit, collaboration, and customer focus.
• Strong analytical skills and a deep understanding of the overall context of business processes and technologies.
• Fluency in English is essential (written and spoken).