Domain Principal – SAP Finance
£80,000 to £90,000 plus great benefits (Work Level 4)
Manchester City Centre (Hybrid Working)

We’re open to applications from candidates 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 Domain Principal to join our ERP Technology team, within our wider Digital Technology & Data team, in Manchester. In this role, you’ll lead and oversee our S4 SAP Finance area, ensuring the ongoing ownership and optimisation of our new S4 SAP platform. This is a hybrid opportunity, and you’ll split your time between home and the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy).

As our Domain Principal for SAP Finance, you’ll be responsible for maintaining the quality of service delivery within this domain, leading operations for all relevant applications, mitigating risks and issues, and managing both people and budgets. You’ll also be responsible for embedding this new technology team within our Co-op. If you have the leadership skills and technical experience we’re looking for, this is a great opportunity for you to play a huge role in helping us to create a leading in-house SAP capability across Co-op.

What you’ll do

• Create and lead a multi-disciplinary team of up to 8 colleagues, including Service Owners, Application Engineers, and Delivery Managers
• Create, develop, and implement the technology roadmap for your domain
• Effectively manage the CAPEX budget and your domain budget
• Build and maintain strong, positive relationships with colleagues and partners at all levels of seniority
• Oversee delivery for your domain, ensuring the team’s capacity and resource availability are closely monitored

This role would suit people who have

• Significant experience working with SAP and finance technology
• Experience leading product, platform, and design teams to deliver a wide range of technological change
• Experience managing both internal and external team members
• A proven track record of managing budgets effectively
• Good leadership and coaching skills, with the ability to support others in their development
• Good communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and challenge people, of all levels of seniority, inclusively

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?

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
• A company car or £6,000 car allowance
• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 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.

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 jobs.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-wellbeing.