£66,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 5)
Manchester City Centre (hybrid working)

We welcome applications from people who many require flexible working arrangements, such as condensed working hours. You’ll be able to discuss your flexible working requirements during the interview process and at offer stage.

This role is eligible for Skilled Worker (Tier 2) visa sponsorship

We’re looking for a SAP Basis Lead to join us in Manchester as part of our wider Digital Technology & Data (DT&D) team at Co-op. We’ve transformed our ways of working by implementing SAP across our Food Retail business area; enabling us to plan, buy, and move our products more efficiently. Now we’re continuing the roll-out across other parts of Co-op, and you’ll be responsible for leading the delivery and growth of this. In this role you’ll work in a hybrid way – spending one day per week working from the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

As a SAP Basis Lead at Co-op, you’ll be accountable for the support, performance tuning, repairs, and technical change requests made to our SAP platform. We’ll look to you to use SAP Basis to make sure that all SAP systems run smoothly; helping our business to grow without any risks. This is a great opportunity to take-on a key position in our SAP team, where you’ll be supporting the creation of a great in-house SAP capability, gaining exposure to S/4 HANA, and developing your SAP career.

What you’ll do

• Support and deliver environment, implementation, and release management activities
• Lead investigations for any complex technical and integration issues
• Build and manage positive relationships with third-party support teams
• Maintain SAP Solution Manager ALM functions, such as ChaRM, BPCA, Technical Monitoring, Solution Documentation etc.
• Own, develop, and implement the platform strategy for BASIS, including capacity management and continuous improvements
• Manage the performance of third-party technical teams for your area
• Proactively champion technical strategy for your area; making sure this aligns with our wider DT&D team strategy

This role would suit people who have

• Significant experience working with SAP Basis
• An excellent understanding of SAP products (e.g. S/4 HANA, ECC, BW/4HANA, SCM, CAR, PI/PO, SLT, Flori, SNC, Solution Manager, BPA Redwood etc)
• Experience managing the performance of third-party suppliers/teams
• Experience working ‘cross platform’ to lead technical performance-related investigations and resolutions

We know that some candidates are less likely to apply for a role if they don’t meet all the criteria in the job description. At Co-op, we’re committed to building a diverse and inclusive working environment, so if you’d like to apply for this role but your experience doesn’t quite meet every point, we’d still encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for the job or other roles we have available.

Why Co-op?

As a Co-op colleague, 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
• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) 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
• YuLife – an app that rewards you for exercising with discounts and vouchers for your favourite brands

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.

We’ll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

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 colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing.

As part of your application, you’ll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes. If you’re a current Co-op colleague, this does not need to be completed.