Business Applications Manager

World Business Lenders

18h•Remote

About The Position

The Business Applications Manager leads the Customer Care organization serving users of the company's internally developed applications. Reporting to the CIO, this role manages five Application Advocate Analysts and establishes consistent practices for application advocacy, user support, adoption, and lifecycle coordination. The position requires technical fluency, but is not a software-development role; its focus is translating between users, business leaders, and technical teams so applications meet user needs and deliver measurable value.

Requirements

Relevant education or professional training is valued; demonstrated technical capability, leadership, and delivery experience are the primary qualifications. A degree is not mandatory.
Eight or more years of relevant experience in business applications, application operations, business systems, or internal customer success, including at least three years of people leadership.
Demonstrated experience leading and coaching a remote team, establishing practical service standards, and improving user support and adoption for production applications.
Demonstrated success building or materially improving a function or production capability and making prioritization decisions with senior business leaders.
Recent hands-on delivery experience is required.
Experience coordinating requirements, testing, releases, user enablement, and ongoing support across business, product, and engineering teams, with clear prioritization and approval boundaries.
Business Applications, Application Operations, Business Systems, Production Applications, Requirements Gathering, Testing, Release Management, User Enablement, Application Support, Workflows, Integrations, Data Flows, Defect Management, Technical Troubleshooting, Production Delivery.
Technical fluency sufficient to understand workflows, integrations, data flows, defects, and delivery constraints, with strong analytical and English communication skills.

Nice To Haves

Experience in lending or financial services, business-user support, and data reconciliation preferred.

Responsibilities

Manage, coach, and develop five Application Advocate Analysts; set clear service and performance standards.
Allocate advocate coverage based on application size, complexity, risk, and demand, with clear escalation paths and continuity plans.
Own the application advocacy operating model and resource plan; hire, assess performance, develop advocates, and build succession and coverage for critical applications.
Maintain regular hands-on involvement in priority delivery.
Organize user needs, requirements, and feedback for the designated product owner or business sponsor, who approves priorities, roadmap decisions, and business acceptance.
Coordinate testing readiness, releases, and user enablement with technical teams.
Track delivery, adoption, application health, risks, and team capacity; escalate material issues to the CIO and relevant product or technical owner.
Coordinate remediation follow-through; technical teams own investigation and resolution of underlying failures.
Build trusted relationships with business leaders; turn recurring user problems into evidence-based improvement proposals for product owners, with clear impact and follow-through.
Maintain reliable channels for questions, requests, incidents, feedback, and escalation, with timely communication and follow-up.
Own user-facing issue communication and route technical failures to the accountable engineering team; keep the designated product owner informed.
Coordinate documentation, training, and adoption activities, using feedback and support trends to identify recurring issues and improvement opportunities.
Lead application readiness and adoption plans with business and technical teams; identify barriers to effective use and measure whether training and process changes resolve them.