What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Director IT Tools Enablement is responsible for leading the acquisition, configuration, training, and adoption of Tools that enable teams to manage their work, align their objectives and metrics, and understand their flow. The Tools Enablement Lead manages a Tools Enablement team who work directly with teams to help them adopt tooling standards and practices.

Primary Responsibilities

• Effectively collaborate with Portfolio leaders to craft strategies and plans for tool capabilities, training, and adoption across teams.

• Partner across Finance, OSM, Enterprise Technology, PMO, and Digital Portfolio Excellence teams to align on connected tooling strategy that enables transparency and traceability between investments and results.

• Responsible for technical administration of IT tools and establishment of standards (e.g. templates, workflows, features enabled/disabled, etc.) that support our evolving ways of working.

• Collaborate cross-functionally to understand constraints, needs, and opportunities as it relates to IT Tools in order to enable transparency, alignment, and agility.

• Coordinate and align on tooling practices and features that support management of portfolio work, portfolio roadmaps and alignment of metrics (e.g. KPIs and OKRs).

• Partner cross-functionally with leaders to enable transparency into key metrics and integrations with related systems where available.

• Develop education / coaching plans and support models to assist teams in the adoption of IT Tools standards.

• Tools Enablement Team Management: Own the talent strategy and build a high-performing Tools Enablement team; managing feedback/review, career development, and mentorship.

Minimum Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in managing IT Tool adoption, particularly in large scale organizations

• Extensive knowledge and practical experience with relevant Agile Tools including the Atlassian Tools Suite including Planview, JIRA, JIRA Align, Confluence, and similar industry tools.

• Experience partnering with finance and enterprise planning teams to align tooling and practices.

• Ability to translate Portfolio needs into actionable plans for tooling support.

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Previous experience in a leadership or supervisory role, particularly growing and managing a teams in a matrixed environment

• Ability to scale tools/processes in a fast-paced and changing environment

• Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities between IT Tools adoption at scale, resource deployment, and capability growth

• Experience with JIRA and Planview

Physical Demands

• Physical demands include a considerable amount of time sitting and typing/keyboarding, using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor), or adding machine

• Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping

• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.