Hours: Full-time (40 hors per week), Permanent
Salary: Up to £50, 000 depending on experience plus performance bonus
Location: Hybrid, typically 2 days on-site at any of our Early Years settings, or Head Office location

About Storal

Storal is a leading nursery group with over 50 settings across England, recently doubling in size through the acquisition of Children 1st Nurseries. With ambitious growth plans, we’re embracing digital transformation to better serve our families and teams. Since early 2024, we’ve been upgrading to cloud-based solutions, aiming for full integration by the end of 2025.

Storal is an evolving business from a technology maturity point of view, we are scaling with the business and business is scaling rapidly. We need to use systems, process and people at the heart of our technology journey to help us succeed in delivering a great platform for our business.

The Digital Systems Programme is a collection of projects that has been run during 2025 to implement a new Finance system (Sage Intacct) and a new Human Resources system (Deel) across the whole business, and to extend the use of Storal’s Nursery Management system (Famly) and Customer Relationship Management system (HubSpot) across a newly acquired part of the business. It also included the company’s Communications and Engagement platform (Yoobic) which was launched earlier in the year.

We are now seeking someone to join the team, handover from the transformation team and take the applications forward whilst ensuring that business-as-usual continues smoothly and we are adopting the new processes and systems to their most effective running state.

A day in the life of the Business Applications Manager will be varied, with responsibilities across multiple different applications and various professional specialisms spanning technology. You can expect to be helping with training one minute, testing the next, working with data on one day, working with a delivery partner on configuration, or working with people to define their processes on another. This hands-on role requires a balance of natural technical capability, people skills and an analytical and logical approach.

Responsibilities:

• Work with third party software partners to become the functional expert for our core business applications, managing configurations and ensuring optimal performance

• Manage integrations, helping to troubleshoot basic issues and working with out support partners where more complex

• Chair and own the Design Authority, where decisions around the business applications will be discussed and made

• Plan and coordinate releases of new functionality, or new processes onto existing functionality across all our business applications

• Run small projects, from business case to closure, defining plans and coordinate activities across the workstreams

• Facilitate workshops and discussions with business stakeholders to define processes, ensuring that all of the processes across the various applications and functions meet design standards and the needs of the business

• Identify opportunities to improve core business processes, leveraging technology and best practices

• Act as a point of contact for end-users providing support, training, and communication about system changes and updates

• Prepare communications and training collateral when needed

Key skills and experience

• Experience of using HubSpot, Deel, Sage Intacct or Famly or other similar platforms, ideally from a system administration or application configuration perspective

• Good understanding of business processes across Human Resources, Finance, and Operations in a Nursery Management or similar context with a geographically dispersed population of deskless workers

• Demonstrable experience of working across business and technical teams, including IT, and an understanding of IT service management processes

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence and educate business users

• Exposure to a systems implementation project in any capacity, whether as a project resource or an end user

Key attributes:

• Proactive problem-solver with a continuous improvement mindset and not shy of hands-on technology functional work

• Able to balance multiple priorities whilst remaining collaborative, approachable and customer focused

• Driven and committed to delivering the best possible outcome for themselves and the business

Why work for us
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Professional development and career growth opportunities.
• A values-driven culture that puts children first.

• Family Friendly Benefits- enhanced parents leave including maternity, paternity & adoption & Childcare Discount at 50% off all fees
• Wellbeing & Refuel Benefits- extra day off per year for your wellbeing and access to modern-day, progressive mental health support & sick pay
• Financial Perks- emergency cash access to your pay before pay date, free financial coaching
• Social Perks – online community for peer-to-peer socializing eg. book club, pets club, pinecones club & continuous professional development accessible to you at anytime

Storal is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All employees will be subject to background checks, enhanced DBS check and reference checks.