With over 100,000 SKUs, General Fasteners Company (GFC) is a full-service distributor for a wide range of Fastener and Assembly Components in over 40 product categories. We excel at providing great products, superior customer service, customized Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) programs, product testing, and engineering solutions for our valued customers. More than half of the items we supply are specifically engineered for our customer's unique applications, and many are non-fastener items such as stampings, molded plastics and composites, mechanical assemblies, kits of various configurations, fittings, private labeled products, and many more. We work with over 800 suppliers from around the globe to offer customers a one-stop shop for their Assembly component needs

SUMMARY:

Application Development Managers are in charge of supervising staff and coordinating activities related to software applications design as well as being an active member of the team. Some of the work activities commonly seen on Application Development Manager resumes are maintaining and upgrading computer systems and application, guiding the development team, solving technical issues, and liaising with clients. The ideal candidate demonstrates leadership, programming expertise, analytical thinking, business acumen, and time management. Most resume examples make display of at least a Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field like information technology or computer science.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Manages a team of analysts or developers responsible for the company's application development and analysis function
• Manage daily operations of an IT Application Development area focused on Epicor P21 ERP system and SQL databases. As well as all other 3rd Party applications.
• This role is in charge of supporting all applications in the company that support the business processes and functions.
• Develop, implement, and maintain a team that ensures skills and capacity for project and enhancement work while providing superior support for production applications
• Maintain knowledge of key company business processes supported by our applications and technology
• Ensure business area requests for application development services are understood, prioritized, and addressed
• Allocate skilled resources for project and enhancement requests as well as day-to-day operations
• Maintain productive management level relationships with the company's business function
• Ensure production systems are performing well and operating without defects
• Act as central point of contact for application software vendors
• Provide leadership, guidance, and motivation to the development team(s) responsible for creating and supporting applications

SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES:

• Must be proficient with Epicor P21 both web and fat client
• Full understanding of the EDI processes inside P21 and outside of P21
• Understanding of SQL and Reporting with Crystal Reports
• Knowledge and understanding of Quickship or other shipping software
• Experience with Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel & Word
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy while meeting deadlines
• Must be self-directed and possess a high level of personal organization and drive
• Possess customer application software development and packaged software implementation knowledge
• Possess excellent communication skills including verbal, written and interpersonal
• Ability to gather data, compile information and prepare reports
• Ability to organize resources, establish priorities and delegate duties
• Ability to solve problems, determine appropriate actions and complete projects in a timely manner
• Interact well with employees at all levels within the organization and be able to build and maintain positive working relationships
• Willingness and ability to be flexible and adapt to changing job requirements

JOB QUALIFICATIONS:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• Bachelor's degree or higher
• Preferred: 3+ years of management experience

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS & WORK ENVIRONMENT:

The physical demands and work environment described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to type, file and/or lift up to 20 lbs. The employee is frequently required to hear and speak. The employee is required to sit, stand, move about, and use hands and arms to reach, handle or feel. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITY:

• This position has supervisory responsibility.

TRAVEL:

• No travel expected for this position.
  

OTHER DUTIES:

Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job