The Company

Robert Half is working exclusively with a leading organisation with a strong presence across Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Renowned for innovation and digital transformation, the business is investing heavily in technology to support growth and operational excellence. You'll join a progressive environment that values collaboration, leadership, and delivering impactful technology solutions.

The Role

As Head of Enterprise Applications, you will report directly to the CIO and play a pivotal role within the Senior IT Leadership Team. This is initially a 12-month fixed term contract with strong potential to become permanent. You will own the strategic roadmap, delivery, and operational support of a diverse enterprise applications portfolio, spanning both SaaS platforms and in-house systems. This high-impact role will see you shape applications strategy, drive innovation, and ensure technology enables growth well into the future.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and execute the 1-3 year enterprise applications strategic roadmap.
• Provide leadership for solution design, application support and lifecycle management.
• Manage and inspire a geographically distributed teams.
• Drive vendor and implementation partner performance, contracts and outcomes
• Ensure seamless integration, security and support for SaaS platforms and custom-built systems.
• Collaborate closely with IT Operations, Cyber Security and Data teams.
• Manage cost centres, budgets, and maintain strong project governance.

Your Profile

• 10+ years' experience leading enterprise or SaaS applications at scale.
• Strong background in software engineering, integration and application architecture.
• Demonstrated leadership of hybrid, geographically spread teams.
• Polished, strategic thinker with impeccable stakeholder management skills.
• Strategic thinker with a track record of operational delivery and cost management.
• Skilled in vendor and partner management with strong commercial acumen.
• Strong governance, risk management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders, including C-level executives.
• Experience with platforms such as SAP SuccessFactors, Microsoft D365 F&O, Salesforce or ServiceNow is highly desirable.

Apply Today

Please send your resume by clicking on the apply button or email Sam Rothery on [email protected]

Learn more about our Melbourne recruitment services: http://www.roberthalf.com.au/recruitment-agency-melbourne

Job Reference No: 06810-0013310508SR

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