Job Description

Sazerac Company Overview

Build your career at Sazerac! With almost 400 years of rich history, Sazerac Company has thrived as an independent, American family-owned company with operations in the United States and around the world. Since the 2000s, Sazerac has averaged double digit growth every year! Sazerac Company produces and markets the most award-winning bourbons and whiskeys in the world, including Buffalo Trace, Pappy Van Winkle, Eagle Rare, Blanton’s, and Sazerac Rye. Additionally, Sazerac owns many popular brands across a range of spirits, including Fireball, Southern Comfort, Seagram’s V.O., Myers’s, Goldschläger, Parrot Bay, 99 Brand, and Platinum Vodka.

We’re proud of our award-winning culture and distilleries. Our Louisville office has been named one of the “Best Places to Work in Kentucky” four times, and our Buffalo Trace Distillery has earned the title of “world’s most award-winning distillery” through the dedication of our craftsmen for well over 200 years. Whether you’re a recent graduate or an experienced professional, Sazerac provides extraordinary opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, entrepreneurial industry.

/Responsibilities

The Director, Enterprise ERP Platform(s) & Integration is accountable for the development, optimization, stability, and long-term business value of Sazerac’s enterprise ERP platform and its integration ecosystem.

This is a platform ownership role — not simply a project delivery or development position. The Director will own the ERP strategy and multi-year roadmap, lead development teams accountable for implementation and stabilization efforts, and ensure the platform continues to deliver measurable value well beyond go-live. This leader is responsible for disciplined architecture, integration governance, and sustained operational performance across a hybrid environment of cloud and legacy systems.

Partnering closely with the CIO, CFO, and functional leaders, this role translates technical complexity into clear business outcomes and ensures technology investments directly support company growth, financial integrity, and operational scalability.

Qualifications/Requirements

Platform Ownership & Accountability

• Own ERP platform strategy, roadmap, and resource allocation across multi-year delivery tracks
• Drive development, quality, cost, risk, and optimization across implementation and ongoing operations
• Influence and stand behind tradeoff decisions, taking accountability for stabilization and performance post go-live

Technical Delivery & Architectural Leadership

• Provide deep technical credibility across ERP architecture and core modules
• Guide design decisions and challenge vendors to ensure disciplined configuration and minimal customization in a SaaS environment
• Establish development standards that protect scalability, security, and long-term sustainability

Integration & Ecosystem Governance

• Define and govern enterprise integration strategy across cloud, legacy (including AS400/System 21), and third-party platforms
• Ensure data accuracy, reconciliation integrity, and system coexistence across the enterprise
• Anticipate downstream impacts of architectural and integration decisions

Executive & Business Partnership

• Communicate risks, tradeoffs, costs, and commitments clearly at the executive level
• Partner closely with Finance, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, and IT leaders to prioritize initiatives against company KPIs
• Operate as a strategic enabler — aligning platform execution with enterprise value

People & Capacity Leadership

• Build and mentor a high-performing ERP and integration leadership team, including career pathing and annual KPIs to drive individual development and company success
• Establish clear roles, career paths, and accountability structures
• Develop sustainable internal and external capacity, with the right roles and skills, to support continuous delivery and future technology evolution of the ERP Platform and Integration

Requirements

• 15+ years of progressive IT leadership experience
• 10+ years of ERP platform implementation, development, and lifecycle management
• Demonstrated ownership of a large-scale ERP platform from strategy through sustained operation
• Strong expertise in modern ERP platforms, with specific experience in Oracle Fusion
• Experience architecting and governing hybrid (cloud + legacy) enterprise environments
• Proven leadership of complex system integrations across multiple business functions
• Experience managing system integrators and technology vendors
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Preferred

• Experience leading Oracle Fusion Cloud ERP implementations
• Experience integrating ERP platforms with AS400/System 21 environments
• Experience in manufacturing, CPG, or regulated industries
• Strong financial systems knowledge (GL, inventory, reconciliation, reporting)
• Master’s degree in related field

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