Head of Enterprise Applications
Requirements
Candidates should have significant experience leading enterprise application portfolios and proven success in delivering and optimizing enterprise SaaS platforms. Strong experience in stakeholder engagement and managing third-party vendors is essential.
Job Description
At the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), we're on a mission to translate scientific discovery into real world impact. We bring together visionary scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators to tackle humanity's greatest challenges in four transformative areas:
- Health, Medical Science & Generative Biology
- Food Security & Sustainable Agriculture
- Climate Change & Managing CO₂
- Artificial Intelligence & Robotics
Your Role:
At EIT, we are seeking a strategic Head of Enterprise Applications within the enterprise applications and integrations space to lead the vision, delivery, and optimisation of our enterprise technology landscape.
As a key member of the Technology leadership team, you will shape and deliver a modern, scalable portfolio of enterprise applications across Finance, HR, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Facilities. You will work closely with senior stakeholders to ensure our technology investments deliver measurable impact and enable EIT's mission to solve global challenges.
This is a highly visible, business-facing leadership role where you will act as a trusted partner, driving transformation through enterprise SaaS platforms and ensuring adoption, value realisation, and continuous improvement.
Your Responsibilities:
Leadership & Team Development
- Lead and develop a high-performing enterprise applications team
- Build capability across product management, business analysis, and platform administration
- Foster a culture of collaboration, delivery excellence, and continuous improvement
- Define and deliver a multi-year enterprise applications strategy aligned to EIT priorities
- Identify opportunities to simplify and modernise business processes through SaaS platforms
- Ensure all investments are prioritised based on value, risk, and organisational readiness
- Own delivery of enterprise application programmes end-to-end
- Ensure platforms are effectively configured and adopted across the organisation
- Establish governance and prioritisation for enhancements and innovation
- Track and communicate benefits and outcomes
- Partner with senior leaders to shape priorities and roadmaps
- Communicate complex technology plans in a clear and engaging way
- Align competing needs to deliver organisational value
- Manage relationships with key vendors, system integrators, and partners
- Lead selection, negotiation, and performance management of suppliers
- Establish strong governance, security, and compliance practices
- Ensure reliable, scalable, and secure application services
- Collaborate with wider technology teams across architecture, data, and infrastructure
You will be a strategic technology leader with a strong track record of delivering business transformation through enterprise applications in complex environments.
You bring a combination of strong leadership, commercial awareness, and the ability to influence and engage senior stakeholders.
Essential Skills, Qualifications & Experience:
- Significant experience leading enterprise application portfolios in complex organisations
- Proven success delivering and optimising enterprise SaaS platforms (ERP, HR, Finance, CRM, etc.)
- Strong experience partnering with executive stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to deliver technology-enabled business outcomes
- Experience managing third-party vendors and system integrators
- Strong commercial, budgeting, and portfolio management skills
- Experience establishing governance and operating models for enterprise applications
- Experience in higher education, research, healthcare, or innovation environments
- Familiarity with Oracle or similar enterprise platforms
- Experience in scale-up or transformational environments
- Knowledge of data governance, security, and regulatory frameworks
We offer the following salary and benefits:
Salary: Dependent on experience + Travel Allowance & Bonus
Once onboarded, you can enjoy and opt into the following benefits:
- Enhanced holiday pay. Our annual leave allowance is 25 days plus 8 bank holidays and an additional 3 days between Christmas and New Year. You will also have the opportunity to purchase an additional 5 days annual leave in January and July.
- Pension - Employer contribution 7.5%, minimum employee contribution 5%
- Life Assurance.
- Income Protection
- Private Medical Insurance as standard for you, your partner and any dependents. Including hospital Cash Plan
- Employee discounts
- Electric car scheme
- Nursery Salary Sacrifice scheme
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Family Planning
- Neurodiversity support including advise and assessments
- Coaching & Therapy services
- You must have the right to work permanently in the UK with a willingness to travel as necessary. In certain cases, we can consider sponsorship, and this will be assessed on a case-by-case basis
- You will live in, or within easy commuting distance of, Oxford (or be willing to relocate)
Skills
About Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford
EIT delivers scaled solutions to humanity’s important problems. Backed by rigorous science and expansive AI capabilities, we plan to push the boundaries of what’s possible. By combining science, technology and commercial insight, we aim to build ethical, sustainable companies that create meaningful, lasting impact around the world. EIT comprises of a world-class faculty of scientists, technologists, engineers, researchers, educators and innovators. Together we are breaking down the silos between science, research, industry and policy. Our approach blends the rigour of transformative science with the agility of enterprise. Set for completion in 2027, the EIT Campus in Littlemore will include more than 300,000 sq ft of research laboratories, educational and gathering spaces. Fuelled by growing ambition and the strength of Oxford’s science ecosystem, EIT is now expanding its footprint to a 2 million sq ft Campus across the western part of The Oxford Science Park. Designed by Foster + Partners led by Lord Norman Foster, this will become a transformative workplace for up to 7,000 people, with autonomous laboratories, purpose-built laboratories including a plant sciences building and dynamic spaces to spark interdisciplinary collaboration.
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