Enterprise Applications Director
Location: London
Time type: Full time
Posted on: 7 Days Ago
We’re Landsec
We are Landsec, we build and invest in buildings, spaces and partnerships to create sustainable places, connect communities and realise potential. We are one of the largest real estate companies in Europe, with a portfolio of retail, leisure, workspace and residential hubs. Landsec is shaping a better future by leading our industry on environmental and social sustainability while delivering value for our shareholders, great experiences for our guests and positive change for our communities.
The Role:
The Enterprise Applications Director has overall responsibility for planning, directing and coordinating activities pertaining to application technology in the enabling functions and business unit projects. The role is responsible for managing the team that delivers all internal IT and business change projects as well as managing and supporting the Landsec portfolio of applications. This includes ensuring that our strategic application vendors and managed services are led effectively. The role will also drive the successful transition of Application related projects into BAU operations.
What you will be responsible for:
- Guidance and management of the Application Management team. Establish team goals and operating procedures. Develop team skills, identifying and retaining high performers and working with team to ensure everyone has a clear progression plan. Reorganise the teams if necessary to create a fit for purpose function.
- Manage relationships with the Landsec business and foster a culture of partnership. Management delivery of technology and business programmes to meet organisational demand. Successful transition of technology and business programmes into BAU operational support.
- Deliver business process improvement which generates cost reductions, business efficiencies, increased revenues, and improved management control.
- Understand technology and industry market trends and see their potential impact on Landsec. Develop a programme to nurture the capability of industry trends to support business growth.
- Manage the Application Management operating budget. Drive down operating costs by challenging sourcing models and diligent vendor management.
- Work closely with other members of the IS Management team to ensure that activities remain closely integrated in terms of goals, approach, strategies and timing.
- As a member of the Senior Management Team within IS, contribute to the strategy of the IS function.
- Forge strong relationships with all business areas, publicising the team’s successes and ensuring that service levels are optimised and project demand is managed.
- Use technology innovatively to enhance business value. Identify opportunities and market trends and convert them into new services to meet business objectives.
- Ensure appropriate contracts are in place with all service providers and ensure that all external work is conducted within a clear contractual framework.
- Ensure governance procedures are adhered to, recommending and implementing changes as necessary.
- Ensure that the Landsec business staff are adequately trained in order to maximise the value of the technology deployed.
- Exhibit a commitment to the company’s core values.
Your skills, experience and qualifications:
Essential criteria
- Have proven success in working with complex problems, defining hypothesis, creating MVPs, running experiments and analysing results to drive data-driven decisions.
- Proven capability with vendor / product selection from conception to go-live, with measurable success across defined KPIs.
- Contributing to technology vision, strategy, and roadmap to enable Landsec’s digital business transformation ambitions.
- Knowledge and experience of Enterprise Application Management best practice, methodologies and transition into operational support with strong technical acumen.
- Strong operational reporting capability with a lens on the colleague experience of consuming applications.
- Shown significant improvement in your product KPIs and helped a team set KPIs for new/other products.
- Effectively worked with senior stakeholders outside of your immediate product team to gather feedback and deliver continuous improvement.
- Proven experience of leading technical transformation projects and acceptance into production support.
- Experience of delivering hybrid working excellence with Enterprise Applications to improve customer and user experience.
- Budget planning and financial management experience.
Life and Benefits at Landsec
We have a great benefits package, there to support you with your work-life balance and in moments that matter. We offer exceptional Learning & Development opportunities to help you grow and reach your potential and we also play our part in supporting the communities where we live and work.
- Discretionary annual bonus plan
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years with options to purchase additional holidays each year.
- Enhanced pension contributions – Landsec will contribute up to 10.5% subject to your contribution.
- Private medical insurance, Life assurance and income protection.
- Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies.
- Annual Sharesave plans with the chance to buy Landsec shares at discounted rates.
- Up to 4 working days to volunteer per year and Give As You Earn programmes allowing you to donate to charities straight out of your pay and we top up by 20%.
And when it comes to your health and wellbeing you will also have access to other benefits: our employee assistance programme, digital GP, cycle to work scheme, a mindfulness app and a health app supporting fertility and menopause.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who best meet the criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
At Landsec, we value diversity & inclusion. We work to better reflect the diversity of the communities we work within and empower everyone who works at Landsec to realise their potential.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and we do not discriminate on the grounds of age, disability, gender identity and gender expression, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy and/or parental status, ethnicity, race, nationality, citizenship, cultural background, socio-economic background, religion or belief.
Flexible Working
Depending on the nature of your role, Landsec may be able to offer different ways of working to fit around your lifestyle. The flexible working options available to you is something that can be discussed at the interview stage during the recruitment process.
The Recruitment Process
To apply for a role at Landsec please click apply in any available role, create a candidate account and upload your CV with the supporting information.
Stage 1: Review CVs
Once you have applied your application will be assessed against the required skills, experience and qualifications. Commonly you will be informed whether you move onto the interview process via a telephone call or email message within 2 weeks of your application being uploaded.
Stage 2: Interview
In most cases the interview process will take between 2-4 weeks with a single on-site interview that may be supported by telephone interviews.
Stage 3: Offer and Contract
If you are successful a verbal offer will be made and your start date discussed before a contract and offer is sent out to you via the candidate account you applied through.
Stage 4: Onboarding
Once you have signed your contract you will be able to onboard through our HR system providing us with all the details and completing your benefit selection, your pre-employment screening and any additional onboarding tasks you may have.
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