Vice President - IT Applications

The Vice President of IT Applications will lead the strategy, delivery, and operation of all enterprise and customer-facing applications across Family Dollar. This executive will lead the application portfolio supporting stores, merchandising, supply chain, and core corporate functions.

This high visibility role partners closely with executive business leaders and supports the majority of business applications to drive revenue growth, improve margins, and enhance customer experience through modern, scalable, and reliable technology platforms. The VP will lead large, distributed teams and manage a significant application budget, vendor ecosystem, and transformation roadmap.  This role combines deep technical expertise and a strong track record of leading enterprise-wide application development in a fast-paced retail or consumer environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise Application Strategy

• Define and execute the enterprise application strategy aligned to business goals.
• Lead modernization initiatives across merchandising, store, supply chain, and corporate systems.
• Establish target architecture and platform roadmaps.

Retail Platforms

Stores

• Customer-facing Point of Sale (POS).

Merchandising and Supply Chain Systems

• Merchandising and assortment planning

• • Pricing and promotions
  • Inventory and replenishment
  • Warehouse and transportation management
  • Demand planning and forecasting

Corporate and ERP Systems

• Own enterprise platforms including:
  • ERP (finance, procurement)
  • HRIS and workforce management
  • Vendor and master data systems

Leadership and Financial Management

• Lead a large, multi-layered organization of directors, managers, and engineers.
• Manage application budgets.
• Oversee vendor and system integrator relationships.
• Build and retain high-performing teams.

Executive Partnership

• Serve as a strategic partner to merchandising, supply chain, finance, and store operations leaders.
• Translate business priorities into technology initiatives with measurable ROI.
• Present application strategies and outcomes to executive leadership.

Qualifications:

Required Experience

• 15+ years of progressive IT leadership experience, with at least 5+ years in a senior leadership role focused on growth and development.
• Experience leading enterprise and customer-facing applications in retail, consumer, or high-volume transaction environments.
• Proven ownership of large budgets and complex vendor ecosystems.
• Demonstrated success leading major platform implementations or transformations.
• Retail, distribution, or high-transaction volume environment experience preferred.

Technical and Functional Expertise

• ERP platforms (e.g., SAP, Oracle, or similar)
• Retail systems (POS, merchandising, order management)
• Supply chain systems (WMS, TMS, planning)
• Cloud and SaaS application environments
• Integration and API-driven architectures

Leadership Skills

• Executive presence and strong business acumen
• Ability to influence C-suite and cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience leading large, distributed teams
• Strong financial and vendor management capabilities
• Strong leadership, change management, and stakeholder engagement skills.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field required.
• MBA or advanced degree preferred.

Projected Salary Range: $250,000 - $275,000

Why Family Dollar

At Family Dollar, we are committed to operational excellence, innovation, and delivering value to our customers and communities. This role offers the opportunity to shape how outsourced services support a large, dynamic retail organization and to make a measurable impact across the enterprise.

Family Dollar is an equal opportunity employer and committed to recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We are committed to complying with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.