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