Manager Retail Excellence

SCM EUROPE Amur, Russia

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Manager SCM Retail Excellence ( S/4 Hypercare) SCM EUROPE - Temp until August 2027 (m/f/d)

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Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Manager Retail Excellence SCM Europe contributes significantly to successfully minimize business disruption during the critical hypercare and sustain period after S/4 go-live.

Responsibilities include supporting the SCM Retail roadmap with focus on close alignment with Sales, coordinating different SCM functions on key initiatives, performance improvements and tactical alignment as needed, looking at the end-to-end flow from order placement to delivery to the store.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the development, planning and execution of Supply Chain Retail initiatives with focus on S/4 go-live and cut-over
Monitor end-to-end order flow and identify disruptions early to initiate counter measures
Build partnerships with stakeholders in Supply Chain, Sales, IT to enable alignment on day-to-operations and facilitate consistency between expectations and capabilities through proactive communication
Monitor performance of Supply Chain Retail initiatives against targets - identify deviations and initiate necessary changes
Act as a trusted partner to Retail commercial teams by communicating performance, capabilities, new implementations and escalations.
Support assigned initiatives effectively with timely communication on project progress and results to Senior Management and stakeholders
Drive performance visibility by developing and enhancing dashboards as well as executing ad-hoc analysis to support dynamic business requirements

Key Relationships:

Stakeholders can relate to the following core functions:
- European Retail team (commercial), including back-office and field teams
- Various SCM functions (e.g. DC, Transport, Orderbook Management, Performance Management, etc.)
- Finance

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

Proven collaboration and people skills
Strong communication skills, especially when interacting with different levels of business
Ability to mediate, convince and build consensus between cross-functional stakeholders with different objectives
Good knowledge about Retail and Omnichannel fulfilment
Profound SAP knowledge
Strong analytical skills in combination with very good PowerBI knowledge
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment
Business- and solution-oriented mindset
Good knowledge about Retail order-to-delivery process
Self-initiated and pro-active mind-set
Ability to think end-to-end and operate cross-functional and good understanding of external business drivers
Team player
High level of system knowledge (MS Office suite)
Fluent in English both verbal and written

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

College or university Degree
Over 3-5 years of relevant work experience in SCM, ideally Retail/Omnichannel fulfilment related functions
Prior work in business functions (i.e. Sales, Retail, eCom) is a plus

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Job Title: Manager SCM Retail Excellence ( S/4 Hypercare) SCM EUROPE - Temp until August 2027 (m/f/d)

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Location: Herzogenaurach

TEAM: Supply Chain & Sourcing

State: BY

Country/Region: DE

Contract Type: Limited Duration

Number: 542256

Date: Apr 22, 2026

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