Senior Functional Consultant - SAP IS/Retail - 13265

Job Role: Senior Functional Consultant
Shift: Aus Shift (4:30 AM to 1:00 PM IST)
Work Mode: Hybrid
Total Exp/Relevant Exp: 12+/8+ years
Joining Timeline: 15 Days

Job Description:

Position Overview: We are seeking a Senior SAP Retail Functional Consultant to support and deliver end-to-end SAP Retail solutions for a complex convenience-store and retail environment. The consultant will work closely with business stakeholders, process owners, technical teams, and third-party partners to translate retail business requirements into scalable SAP solutions.The role requires strong knowledge of end-to-end SAP Retail business processes, including merchandise management, procurement, inventory, replenishment, pricing, promotions, sales, distribution, master data, and integration with store and external retail systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead functional design and implementation of end-to-end SAP Retail solutions.
• Analyse current retail business processes and identify opportunities for process improvement and SAP optimisation.
• Work with business stakeholders to gather, document, validate, and prioritise requirements.
• Translate business requirements into SAP functional specifications, solution designs, and configuration.Configure and support SAP Retail functionality across merchandise, procurement, inventory, replenishment, pricing, promotions, and sales processes.
• Design and validate end-to-end retail processes from product creation and assortment through procurement, distribution, store operations, sales, and inventory management.
• Support integration between SAP and POS, store systems, warehouse/DC systems, e-commerce, finance, supply chain, and third-party applications.
• Work on retail master data including articles/products, sites/stores, vendors, merchandise categories, assortments, pricing conditions, and related master-data structures.
• Support retail purchasing, allocation, replenishment, stock transfers, goods movements, and inventory processes.
• Analyse and resolve functional issues, production incidents, defects, and business-process gaps.
• Prepare functional specifications for technical development, interfaces, reports, enhancements, forms, and integrations.
• Coordinate with ABAP, integration, data, testing, and infrastructure teams to deliver functional solutions.
• Lead or support SIT, UAT, regression testing, defect management, and production validation.
• Provide impact analysis for SAP changes, enhancements, releases, and new retail initiatives.
• Support cutover, deployment, hypercare, and post-production stabilisation.
• Mentor junior functional consultants and provide functional leadership across assigned workstreams.

SAP Retail Functional Scope:

• Strong end-to-end understanding of SAP Retail / Merchandise Management Article/Product Master DataSite and Store Master DataMerchandise Categories and Hierarchies
• Assortment Management, Retail Purchasing and Procurement, Vendor Management, Purchase Orders and Goods Receipts, Inventory Management, Stock Transfers and Goods Movements Replenishment Allocation Pricing and Price Changes, Promotions and Promotion Planning; Sales and POS Integration Distribution Centre / Warehouse Integration Store Operations Inventory Adjustments and Stock Counts Retail Sales and Revenue Processes Returns and Reverse Logistics
• SAP FI/CO integration; SAP MM integration; SAP SD integration; SAP EWM/WMS integration where applicable
• POS and third-party system integration Data migration and retail master-data governance
• Senior-Level Expectations Demonstrated experience delivering SAP Retail implementations, rollouts, upgrades, or transformation programs.
• Ability to own functional workstreams independently from requirements through production.
• Strong understanding of retail business processes and the operational realities of high-volume, multi-store convenience retail.
• Ability to work across business, functional, technical, and integration teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience preparing functional designs and leading solution discussions.
• Ability to challenge requirements and recommend standard SAP solutions where appropriate.
• Strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.
• Experience working in Agile, hybrid, or traditional SAP delivery environments.
• Ability to mentor consultants and provide functional leadership.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in convenience retail, grocery, fuel & convenience, franchise retail, or high-volume multi-store environments is highly desirable.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA Retail and integration with modern retail platforms, POS systems, e-commerce, warehouse systems, and external applications would be advantageous.
• Business requirement documentsProcess maps and end-to-end process designs
• Functional solution designsSAP configurationFunctional specificationsIntegration requirementsTest scenarios and test scriptsDefect analysis and resolution
• Data migration requirements Cutover and deployment plansTraining and business-process documentation
• Production support and continuous-improvement recommendations

Note: The ideal candidate is a Senior SAP Retail functional professional who combines deep SAP knowledge with practical retail-process expertise. They should be comfortable engaging with business users at store, merchandising, supply-chain, finance, and corporate levels while also working closely with SAP technical and integration teams. Experience supporting a large-scale retailer with a high number of stores, large transaction volumes, complex assortments, frequent pricing and promotional changes, and integrated POS/store systems, would be particularly relevant.

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