Solution Architect - Merchandising SAP Retail (S/4HANA)
Ko wai mātou – About us
Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!
With 300+ stores and over 24,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.
Our Support Centre is 1,000+ people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.
Te Tūranga – About the role
Shape the future of retail by architecting solutions grounded in real business needs.
Are you a solution architect who understands how retail businesses run — from buying and ranging to replenishment, pricing, promotions, and product lifecycle?
Do you thrive on translating complex merchandising processes into elegant SAP S/4HANA designs that work for people, not just systems?
We’re looking for a Merchandising Solution Architect to join our Business Systems & Platform team. This role takes an end‑to‑end view of retail merchandising capabilities, designing solutions that span SAP and the wider retail technology ecosystem, including non‑SAP platforms, integrations, and data products.
You will help shape how our core retail functions operate across SAP and connected platforms, ensuring our solutions are scalable, future‑ready, and aligned with our long-term strategy.
In this role, you will:
- Lead solution design for SAP S/4HANA across key merchandising areas such as MM, SD, CAR, PMR, UDF, and Forecasting & Replenishment — ensuring solutions reflect real business process needs and industry best practice.
- Translate complex retail and merchandising requirements into practical SAP architectures, guiding functional consultants and business stakeholders through options, impacts, and future-state design.
- Work with developers and technical teams to enable integrations (BTP, CPI, APIs) across SAP and non‑SAP systems, ensuring cohesive end‑to‑end solutions that support merchandising operations.
- Shape solution designs across SAP and adjacent retail platforms (e.g. pricing, promotions, planning, POS, data and analytics), ensuring consistent architectural patterns and business outcomes.
- Define and govern solution architecture standards across ERP, data, and integration landscapes, ensuring clean core principles and consistent design.
- Apply SAP Activate, LeanIX, Signavio, and established architectural patterns to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Partner with Enterprise and Principal Architects on our long-term SAP roadmap, including RISE with SAP, S/4HANA evolution, and cloud-enabled capabilities.
- Act as a trusted advisor on SAP best practices, upgrade paths, extensibility, and innovation (BTP extensions, automation, AI).
Ngā painga - What we offer
We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits:
- Free carparking -we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including 36free EV plugs
- Southern cross health insurance and 5% discount at our retail stores
- Onsite café with subsidised meals and a mini mart
- Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
- Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).
He kōrero mōu - About you
You’re an experienced Solution Architect with a strong foundation in SAP business processes, particularly across Merchandising, Supply Chain, or Finance. You bring 5+ years of leading SAP solution design, guiding cross-functional teams, and shaping future-state process and system landscapes.
Your strength lies in understanding how the business operates and translating that into well‑designed SAP solutions. You connect people, processes, and platforms to create architectures that are scalable, practical, and aligned with strategic goals.
Commercially astute and confident working across the organisation, you collaborate seamlessly with functional consultants, delivery teams, and senior business leaders. You’re known for simplifying complexity, providing clarity, and helping teams make well‑informed decisions. Curious, pragmatic, and forward‑thinking, you constantly look for ways to uplift quality and drive better outcomes.
You’ll bring:
- Strong experience as an SAP Solution Architect or Senior Functional Consultant in merchandising or supply chain domains.
- Deep understanding of retail business processes and how they map into SAP.
- Ability to lead solution discussions, influence decision-making, and simplify complexity for stakeholders.
- Familiarity with SAP integration patterns and platforms (BTP/CPI/API-led) — not as a developer, but as an architect who understands dependencies and end-to-end design.
- A passion for building modern, scalable, secure solutions that support real business outcomes.
Experience awesome. Achieve Awesome. Be awesomely you.
We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.
We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.
If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz. Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.