Location: Home based with UK wide travel 2-3 times a month Are you an experienced IT leader ready to drive innovation, operational excellence, and business success? At ZIGUP, we’re looking for a forward-thinking Head of IT Applications to lead the development, delivery, and optimisation of our critical business systems. This role offers a unique opportunity to oversee a diverse portfolio of in-house and third-party applications while ensuring the highest standards of security, scalability, and performance. As Head of IT Applications, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining, supporting, and optimising a wide range of business systems, including mobile solutions. You’ll craft and lead the delivery of an application strategy that balances innovation with operational excellence, ensuring robust lifecycle management, cost efficiency, and compliance with information security standards. Your Key Responsibilities will include : Set the Vision: Establish and maintain a strategic roadmap for ZIGUP’s application portfolio, ensuring alignment with business objectives. Lead & Inspire: Mentor and lead a high-performing team of c65 colleagues, fostering a culture of growth and innovation. Deliver Excellence: Implement best-in-class development and deployment practices, including Agile, Scrum and DevOps methodologies. Collaborate & Influence: Network with Technology Business Partners to define high-level solutions and prioritise IT demands effectively. Manage Stakeholders: Maintain productive relationships with key stakeholders and third-party suppliers, ensuring SLAs, performance, and value are consistently met. Drive Innovation: Stay ahead of emerging technologies and trends, continuously improving processes and solutions. Join ZIGUP as a Head of Applications and enjoy some outstanding benefits … Of course, there’s a great basic salary, but that’s just the beginning, our most popular benefits include … Salary – Competitive based salary, enhanced by a company car/ car allowance of £8,000 and up to 15% annual bonus. Annual Leave - Start with 28 days, increasing to 29 days with service, plus the flexibility to buy or sell up to 5 extra days each year. Of course, you’ll have public holidays too and an extra day off to celebrate your birthday Pension - Employer contributions of 7.5% Financial Benefits - Enjoy the security of free life assurance, a save-as-you-earn scheme, a colleague referral scheme (earning £1,000 per referral), and our Benefits App with discounts and cashback at top retailers like Tesco, Asda, Currys, B&Q, and Wickes. Wellbeing & Lifestyle Services – Private Medical Insurance for you and your family, access our colleague assistance programme with 24/7 GP service, mental health support and physiotherapy plus cycle to work, eyecare vouchers, Health Cash Plan, Dental Plan and Travel Insurance. Professional Development - We've partnered with Pluralsight to provide you with cutting-edge content created by industry experts. Gain Access to thousands of courses, skill tests, and learning paths to enhance your career. Motoring Benefits - Take advantage of exclusive Colleague vehicle-leasing schemes, discounted repairs, and reduced rates on weekend car and van hires. Wagestream - A free financial wellbeing app that gives you more control over your pay, helps you save, provides financial advice and offers even more discounts on your shopping. What You’ll Bring: Proven experience in a senior IT leadership role, managing teams of 30 in a complex organisation with multiple routes to market. You’ll be well versed in influencing senior business decision makers, including c-suite. Extensive experience in shaping and delivering group-wide application strategies, including consolidating platforms and standards. Deep expertise in software development processes, including Agile and Waterfall frameworks. A successful track record of delivering large-scale applications and cloud-based (SaaS, PaaS) solutions on time, within budget, and aligned with business goals. Demonstratable ability to manage complex portfolios, ensuring effective resource planning and strategic delivery in a dynamic environment. A solid understanding of information security principles and experience developing robust frameworks to ensure data protection. Experience managing large budgets with a focus on driving cost efficiency and delivering value. About Us ZIGUP is a leading integrated mobility solutions provider. We're trusted by many of the UKs leading insurance and leasing companies, fleet operators, OEMs and blue-chip corporates, delivering a wide array of solutions from vehicle rental and fleet management to accident management, vehicle repairs, service and maintenance. Our Purpose? Keeping customers moving, smarter. We are agile. We are experts. We are imaginative. We are reliable. Keep your career moving, smarter.