Director Of Supply Chain Applications

Job Description

The Director, Supply Chain Applications leads the design, development, implementation, support, and modernization of the technology platforms that enable the company's supply chain operations. This role is accountable for the performance and long-term direction of the supply chain application portfolio and works closely with business and technology leaders to translate operational priorities into reliable, scalable solutions. The Director also guides the transition from legacy platforms to modern cloud-based solutions while maintaining business continuity, managing technology risk, and ensuring critical systems continue to support the company's evolving needs.

What Would You Do? The Specifics.

• Oversees the development of critical applications and technology to support the company's long-term goals.
• Owns the supply chain application portfolio, including strategy, delivery, maintenance, production support, and lifecycle planning.
• Oversees an extensively customized JDA environment running on IBM i (AS/400 / iSeries), supporting the applications and business processes that keep our supply chain operating.
• Provides technical direction and oversight for the customized JDA platform, including RPG programs, CL processing, database interactions, batch workflows, and interfaces, while ensuring sound architecture, maintainability, and operational reliability.
• Reviews complex code and application changes, assess downstream impacts, and guide troubleshooting of production issues.
• Oversees source control, change management, and release processes within ALDON, including dependency management, approvals, environment promotion, deployment readiness, and rollback planning.
• Serves as a technology partner to leaders across Supply Chain, Distribution, Merchandising, Finance translating operational requirements into scalable solutions, prioritized roadmaps, and informed technology investments.
• Documents critical business rules, customizations, interfaces, and operational dependencies to preserve institutional knowledge and reduce reliance on individual experts.
• Defines and maintains application development and support standards across solution design, coding, testing, documentation, production support, release management, and change control.
• Partners with Infrastructure and Operations teams to strengthen application availability, performance, security, disaster recovery, business continuity, and batch-processing reliability.
• Leads application modernization and transformation planning, including application discovery, requirements analysis, process assessment, solution evaluation, data mapping, migration planning, and transition readiness for future platform changes.
• Communicates application health, delivery progress, risks, and investment recommendations to business and technology leadership.
• Assists in the development, review, and compliance of IT policies and procedures including project approval process, signature authority policy, information security policies and processes, and disaster recovery and business continuity processes.