Hybrid SAP CAR Lead — Retail Data & Omnichannel

Co-op; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

28 days holiday

Pension contributions

Private healthcare

Onsite gym access

Staff discount

Virtual healthcare

24/7 support

Job summary

Co-op is seeking an SAP Functional Lead for the Customer Activity Repository (CAR) to shape the functional direction of the CAR platform. You will work closely with technology teams and business stakeholders to ensure SAP CAR delivers reliable, scalable data for retail and omnichannel operations.

In this role, you’ll lead design and development, advise on business processes, and drive improvements across the SAP CAR landscape.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in SAP CAR, ideally in retail or supply chain environments.
• Strong expertise in SAP CAR functionality: POSDTA, Promotions Management for Retail (PMR) and integrations.
• Understanding of retail operations, inventory visibility and omnichannel fulfilment.
• Experience designing and delivering SAP CAR solutions in large, complex organisations.
• Knowledge of SAP ECC or S/4HANA Retail and the wider retail technology ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and ongoing development of SAP CAR functionality.
• Act as a subject matter expert for SAP CAR, guiding business processes and solution design.
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, product managers and stakeholders to deliver solutions.
• Support key SAP CAR capabilities: sales processing, inventory visibility, promotions, stock management and omnichannel operations.
• Ensure integration between SAP CAR and connected platforms (retail, supply chain, store, digital, data).
• Provide oversight and QA for change delivery across the platform and services.
• Drive continuous improvement through process simplification, automation and optimisation.
• Coach colleagues to build capability across SAP retail solutions.

Skills

SAP CAR

POSDTA

PMR

DRF

Demand Data Foundation

Inventory management

Omnichannel

Tools

ECC

S/4HANA Retail

Job description

Co-op is seeking an SAP Functional Lead for the Customer Activity Repository (CAR) to shape the functional direction of the CAR platform. You will work closely with technology teams and business stakeholders to ensure SAP CAR delivers reliable, scalable data for retail and omnichannel operations.

In this role, you’ll lead design and development, advise on business processes, and drive improvements across the SAP CAR landscape.