Applications Manager

Applications Manager | Sunderland | Hybrid working (3 days in office)

We're supporting a major UK organisation undergoing significant transformation, including a large-scale migration from Oracle E‑Business Suite to Oracle Fusion ERP. They are looking for an Applications Manager who can bring strong leadership, deep applications expertise, and stability across a complex, fast‑moving environment. This Applications Manager will oversee a diverse enterprise applications estate spanning Finance, HR, Operations and Customer/Commercial domains.

What you'll be doing

Leading and developing a multi-disciplinary team across applications and platforms.
Overseeing the performance, reliability, and security of a wide range of enterprise applications.
Acting as the senior Applications Manager for a complex landscape.
Supporting major programmes such as ERP migrations (including EBS → Fusion).
Driving high standards across incident, problem, change and release processes.
Overseeing integrations, data flows, upgrades, patching and platform lifecycle management.
Working closely with Product, Architecture, and wider IT teams to deliver meaningful business change.

What we're looking for

Strong experience as an Applications Manager within a complex environment.
Proven track record supporting ERP platforms (Oracle EBS, Fusion, or similar).
Experience working on large-scale migrations or transformation programmes.
Exposure to integrations, APIs, automation, and modern engineering practices.
Knowledge of underpinning Tech Services (Azure/AWS) is beneficial but not essential.
Confident stakeholder engagement and the ability to simplify technical issues.
Experience leading and developing application support or platform engineering teams