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About the Role

ESNAD, the Saudi Mining Services Company, headquartered in Riyadh, is seeking a Corporate Applications Manager. This role is responsible for leading and managing the organization's enterprise applications portfolio, ensuring the stability, performance, enhancement, and continuous improvement of business-critical systems. The Corporate Applications Manager will align application services with ESNAD's strategic business needs, oversee application support and integrations, and drive technology solutions to foster operational excellence and digital transformation within the mining sector. ESNAD is committed to driving positive change in the mining sector by enhancing environmental, health, and safety standards, ensuring economic growth, and maximizing state revenues, playing a key role in achieving sector strategy goals under the guidance of the Ministry of Industry and Mineral Resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the corporate applications function, ensuring efficient day-to-day operations and service delivery.
• Oversee the administration, support, and enhancement of enterprise applications, including SAP Ariba, SAP MM, SAP FICO, and SAP SuccessFactors.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and reliability of business-critical applications.
• Manage application projects, upgrades, enhancements, and system implementations in collaboration with business stakeholders and vendors.
• Lead incident management, root cause analysis, and issue resolution for application-related problems.
• Gather and analyze business requirements and translate them into effective application solutions.
• Oversee integration activities between SAP and other enterprise systems, APIs, middleware platforms, and third-party solutions.
• Manage vendor relationships, support contracts, Service Level Agreements (SLAs), and implementation partners to ensure quality service delivery.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives and identify opportunities to optimize business processes through technology.
• Ensure application governance, documentation, compliance, and adherence to organizational standards and best practices.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related field.
• A minimum of 6 years of experience in a similar position.
• 5-10 years of relevant experience is required.

Required Skills

• Strong functional and technical knowledge of SAP, specifically SAP Ariba, SAP MM, SAP FICO, and SAP SuccessFactors.
• Proficiency in vendor and stakeholder management.
• Expertise in business analysis and requirements gathering.
• Solid understanding of application integration and API management.

Work Location and Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.