Data & Applications Manager

Informed Recruitment Limited; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Informed Recruitment Limited partners with an award-winning regeneration and property development organisation to recruit a Data and Systems Manager. You will oversee the operation, governance and continuous improvement of business applications, ensuring systems are reliable and aligned with business needs.

You will balance day-to-day system management with longer-term planning, supplier management, data quality, reporting and active stakeholder engagement within a major digital transformation

Qualifications

• Experience of managing operation and improvement of business applications.
• Experience of data governance and management.
• Exposure to data and document management systems.
• Ability to balance operational management with longer term planning.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that systems remain aligned with business requirements and are reliable.
• Provide trusted information, data quality, and reporting across the organisation.
• Manage commercial data and document management systems and ensure service health.
• Coordinate implementations, upgrades, releases, configuration, testing and transition into support.
• Maintain systems roadmaps and improvement planning; align with business priorities.
• Engage with stakeholders to understand needs and shape system priorities.
• Oversee the data and systems administration team and support services documentation.

Skills

Data governance

Business applications management

Data quality reporting

Stakeholder engagement

System roadmaps

Job description

Do you have specific experience of managing the operation and improvement of business applications? Do you have further experience of data governance and management, including exposure to data and document management systems? If so then let Informed Recruitment help you to achieve your potential with an exciting opportunity for a Data and Systems Manager to support the operational management and ongoing improvement of business systems for an award-winning regeneration and property development organisation, a respected & established social enterprise in the midst of a digital transformation programme.

The main purpose of the role will be to take responsibility for the effective operation, governance, and continuous improvement of all business applications, balancing operational management with longer term planning, supplier management, and improvement. Your ongoing responsibilities will include ensuring that systems remain aligned with business requirements, are supportable & reliable; the provision of trusted information, data quality, and reporting; manage commercial enterprise, data and document management systems; ensure systems performance, service health and supplier delivery; coordinate implementations, upgrades, releases, configuration, testing and transition into support; maintain systems roadmaps and improvement planning; stakeholder engagement with business partners to understand need and shape system priorities; managing the data and systems administration team; as well as the maintenance of the support services, support models, access controls, ownership records, resilience and lifecycle arrangements, as well as all associated documentation.