SAP Functional Consultant

SAP Functional Consultant
£65,000 to £75,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester city centre (hybrid working)

We’re open to applications from people who may require flexible working arrangements. There’ll be an opportunity to discuss your flexible working requirements during the interview process, and at offer stage.

We’re looking for a SAP Functional Consultant to join us in Manchester as part of our wider Digital Technology & Data team. As part of our ongoing digital transformation, we’ve successfully implemented SAP across our food retail business, and now we’re focusing on enhancing our Finance capabilities – this is where you’ll play a key role! In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way – spending around one day per week working from the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at https://jobs.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

As a SAP Functional Consultant at Co-op, you’ll provide thought leadership, functional design expertise, and technical knowledge to help strengthen our SAP platform and deliver new capabilities. We’ll look to you to collaborate with our SAP Solution Architects and business process experts; helping to define and offer solutions that meet the needs of our business. This is a great opportunity to play a huge part in our exciting SAP transformation journey across Co-op!

What you’ll do

• Lead the functional design for SAP Finance, coordinating the end-to-end process and its integration with other areas
• Collaborate with our SAP Solution Architects and advise colleagues on SAP Finance-related queries
• Provide input on all system integration activities
• Mentor and support your team members; helping to continuously develop our SAP capabilities
• Keep up to date with the latest SAP innovations to make sure we’re taking a future-focussed approach to our practices and solutions

This role would suit people who have

• Significant experience as a SAP Functional Consultant
• Expertise in SAP ECC and S/4 Finance modules
• Proven experience working on large-scale SAP transformation projects alongside multiple internal and external partners
• Good communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly present technical information to non-technical audiences
• Good relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and challenge people inclusively

Why Co-op?

If you’ve got the skills and experience we’re looking for, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services). You’ll also get:

• Private healthcare
• 28 days holiday plus bank holidays
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream – a money management app that gives you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn it
• Grocery Aid – 24/7 access to a range of emotional, financial, and practical support services for you and your family

Building an inclusive work environment

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process.

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing.