Director, SAP Basis IT Systems

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits seeks a Director SAP Basis to lead the strategy, design, and operations of our SAP landscapes supporting wholesale distribution. You will oversee system architecture, installations, upgrades, performance tuning, and security for SAP S/4HANA and related systems, ensuring high availability and compliance. Partner with IT, supply chain, and finance to align SAP solutions with business goals, manage vendors, and guide a Basis team through best practices, automation, and continuous improvement in a fast-paced, people-first culture.

Responsibilities

• Own SAP Basis strategy, roadmap, and standards for enterprise SAP landscapes.

• Lead SAP system installations, upgrades, migrations, and patching across environments.

• Ensure high availability, performance, and scalability of SAP and HANA systems.

• Oversee SAP security, compliance, user administration, and audit readiness.

• Manage transport management, change control, and incident/problem resolution.

• Collaborate with supply chain, finance, and operations to align SAP with business needs.

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing SAP Basis team.

• Manage vendor relationships, service level agreements, and managed services.

• Implement monitoring, automation, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Contribute to IT strategy, budgeting, and long-term platform planning.

Required Skills

• SAP Basis administration

• SAP S/4

• HANASAP HANA database

• System performance tuning

• SAP system upgrades and migrations

• High availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR)

• SAP security and user administration

• Transport management (CTS/Cha

• RM)

• SAP Solution Manager/monitoring tools

• ITIL/Change and incident management