Senior Manager IT Delivery & Program Management

Sazerac Company; Louisville (KY); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sazerac Company in Louisville is seeking a hands-on, outcomes-driven delivery leader to shape how our enterprise plans, builds, tests, and launches technology. You'll own the IT Delivery & Program Management practice and drive ERP transformation across teams, partners, and releases.

Lead end-to-end delivery for key programs, remove blockers, manage budgets, and craft reporting that informs business and IT leaders.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in tech delivery/program management leadership.
• Experience with ERP implementations or major enterprise rollouts.
• Strong planning, prioritization, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.
• Experience with hybrid delivery models (Agile/waterfall).

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery for key programs and initiatives, ensuring predictable scope, timeline, quality, and adoption.
• Drive ERP transformation delivery - from discovery through cutover and hypercare.
• Remove blockers, manage dependencies, and coordinate across architecture, product teams, security, infrastructure, and vendors.
• Provide clear status, risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to business and IT leaders.
• Manage budgets, vendor performance, and portfolio governance.
• Build and evolve delivery standards, playbooks, operating rhythms, and reporting.
• Use metrics to improve predictability, reduce rework, and strengthen cross-team handoffs.
• Lead change and release readiness to ensure safe, successful deployments.

Skills

Tech delivery leadership

Program leadership

Stakeholder management

ERP implementations

Roadmapping & release planning

Team leadership

Education

Master's degree or PMP/PRINCE2/Scrum/SAFe/Lean

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.

Job Description/Responsibilities

Build the engine that powers our tech delivery. Lead programs that move the business.

We're looking for a hands-on, outcomes-driven delivery leader to shape how our enterprise plans, builds, tests, and launches technology. You'll own our IT Delivery & Program Management practice and play a key role in our ERP transformation - driving clarity, alignment, and predictable execution across teams, partners, and releases.

What You'll Do

• Lead end-to-end delivery for key programs and initiatives, ensuring predictable scope, timeline, quality, and adoption.
• Drive ERP transformation delivery - from discovery through cutover and hypercare.
• Remove blockers, manage dependencies, and coordinate across architecture, product teams, security, infrastructure, and vendors.
• Provide clear status, risks, decisions, and tradeoffs to business and IT leaders.
• Manage budgets, vendor performance, and portfolio governance.
• Build and evolve delivery standards, playbooks, operating rhythms, and reporting.
• Use metrics to improve predictability, reduce rework, and strengthen cross-team handoffs.
• Lead change and release readiness to ensure safe, successful deployments.

Qualifications/Requirements

What You Bring

• 7+ years of tech delivery/program management leadership.
• Proven success leading large, multi-workstream programs.
• Strong planning, prioritization, communication, and stakeholder-influence skills.
• Experience with ERP implementations or major enterprise rollouts.
• Strength in roadmapping, dependency management, RAID, and release planning across Agile/hybrid/waterfall.
• Ability to lead and coach delivery talent; strong analytical and vendor-management skills.

Preferred: Master's, PMP/PRINCE2/Scrum/SAFe/Lean.

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