Vice President of IT

Company

American Promotional Events, Inc.

-East d/b/a TNT Fireworks

Reports To

Senior Vice President, IT & Operations

Location

Florence, Alabama

TNT Fireworks is seeking a Vice President of Information Technology to lead the company's technology organization and play a central role in a broader business transformation initiative supporting national retail, wholesale, and distribution operations.

The mandate extends well beyond maintaining existing systems. The VP will evaluate the current technology environment, identify opportunities to simplify and modernize the architecture, and establish a technology roadmap aligned with TNT's long-term growth and operating strategy.

A major near-term priority will be evaluating TNT's core enterprise platform. The company currently operates JD Edwards Enterprise One in a stable hybrid environment, but business processes have evolved beyond portions of the existing configuration, creating customizations, manual processes, and workarounds. The VP will work across Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Sales, and other functional leaders to determine whether TNT should optimize and extend its current JDE environment or transition to a new ERP platform, develop the business case and roadmap, and lead execution of the chosen strategy.

The VP will also help define and lead TNT's enterprise approach to artificial intelligence, identifying practical opportunities to improve productivity, decision-making, automation and operating performance while establishing the data foundation, governance and security required for responsible adoption.

The role carries executive responsibility for cybersecurity, infrastructure, enterprise applications, data and reporting, technology vendors, end-user support and business continuity. TNT operates a highly seasonal business whose technology footprint expands significantly during peak periods. The successful executive must modernize technology while protecting business continuity, security, and operating performance during the company's most critical revenue periods.

• Develop and execute an enterprise technology strategy aligned with TNT's business priorities, growth, and operational requirements.
• Assess the current technology architecture and establish a practical modernization roadmap.
• Develop and lead TNT's enterprise AI strategy, identifying practical opportunities to apply AI across the business to improve productivity, decision-making, automation and operational performance.
• Partner with functional leaders to identify and prioritize AI use cases, establish appropriate governance, and translate emerging capabilities into measurable business value.
• Lead evaluation and modernization of TNT's core enterprise systems, including the potential optimization, expansion or replacement of the JD Edwards Enterprise One environment.
• Evaluate ERP and broader technology modernization decisions with consideration for data readiness, integration capabilities and TNT's ability to leverage AI and emerging technologies over the long term.
• Partner with functional leaders to distinguish technology limitations from process, configuration and organizational issues.
• Build business cases, investment priorities and implementation roadmaps for major technology and AI initiatives.
• Lead large-scale technology programs from evaluation and selection through implementation, adoption and measurable business impact.

• Lead and develop three specialized managers spanning software and applications, network/infrastructure/security, and JD Edwards technical administration and end-user support.
• Build leadership capability and technical depth within the technology organization.
• Create strong alignment between technology functions that must operate as an integrated team.
• Build bench strength in critical areas including enterprise applications, JD Edwards technical knowledge, and cybersecurity.
• Serve as a trusted technology partner to TNT's senior leadership and functional executives.

• Maintain executive ownership of TNT's cybersecurity posture, risk management and incident preparedness.
• Drive continuous improvement across identity and access management, endpoint and network protection, vulnerability management, monitoring, backup integrity and security awareness.
• Maintain effective incident response, disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities, including…