The Opportunity We are seeking an experienced Applications & Data Manager to join our technology team on a 12-month fixed-term contract, providing maternity leave cover. This is a key leadership position responsible for overseeing the organisation's applications function, leading a team of application professionals and building strong relationships with stakeholders across the business. The successful candidate will bring a strong combination of people leadership, stakeholder management and application management experience.

You will be comfortable operating at both a strategic and hands-on level, translating business requirements into technology solutions while ensuring the effective delivery, performance and ongoing improvement of the application environment.

Key Responsibilities

- Lead, develop and mentor the applications team, fostering a collaborative, accountable and high-performing culture.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with senior stakeholders and business leaders, ensuring technology priorities are aligned with business objectives.
- Oversee the application portfolio, ensuring applications are effectively managed, supported and continuously improved.
- Lead business analysis activities, working with stakeholders to understand business needs, gather requirements and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Manage the delivery of application-related projects, enhancements and initiatives, ensuring outcomes are delivered on time and within scope.
- Drive effective project governance, prioritisation, planning and resource management.
- Work closely with internal technology teams and external vendors to ensure effective application delivery and support.
- Manage competing priorities and provide clear communication, reporting and direction to stakeholders.

About You:



You will be an accomplished Applications & Data Manager or an experienced technology leader with a strong background in enterprise applications and a proven ability to lead people and manage business relationships.

You will ideally bring

- Demonstrated experience leading and managing application teams, with a strong focus on people leadership, coaching and development.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
- A solid applications background, ideally within a complex business or enterprise environment.
- Excellent business analysis skills, including requirements gathering, process mapping and translating business needs into practical solutions.
- Strong project management capabilities, with experience overseeing technology projects and driving successful delivery.
- The ability to balance strategic thinking with a hands-on approach to problem-solving and operational management.
- Strong vendor management and relationship-building capabilities.
- SAP experience would be advantageous but is not essential. Offices in the CBD, 2 days working from home. This is a hybrid position. By clicking 'apply', you give your express consent that Robert Half may use your personal information to process your job application and to contact you from time to time for future employment opportunities. For further information on how Robert Half processes your personal information and how to access and correct your information, please read the Robert Half privacy notice: https://www.roberthalf.com/au/en/privacy. Please do not submit any sensitive personal data to us in your resume (such as government ID numbers, ethnicity, gender, religion, marital status or trade union membership) as we do not collect your sensitive personal data at this time.

📌 Applications & Data Manager (Sydney)
🏢 Robert Half
📍 Sydney