Director , SAP Technology Lead - Merchandising

The Director, SAP Technology Lead - Merchandising serves as the senior authority for SAP merchandising solutions and plays a pivotal role in delivering ADUSA's Retail Spine ERP transformation. This position is responsible for leading the end-to-end design, delivery, implementation, and ongoing support of core merchandising capabilities, including article and master data management, assortment and listing, pricing and promotions, vendor funding, allocation, and margin optimization using SAP S/4

HANA Retail and associated platforms such as SAP CAR and integrated planning and analytics solutions. A critical aspect of this role is ensuring seamless integration across merchandising, finance, supply chain, store operations, and digital commerce platforms to enable accurate pricing execution, promotional effectiveness, real-time inventory visibility, and enterprise-wide margin transparency.

The Director ensures that merchandising solutions are scalable, high-performing, and commercially aligned to drive measurable business outcomes. In close partnership with merchandising and finance leadership, this role mobilizes IT teams and System Integrator partners to deliver fit-to-standard, clean-core aligned solutions that support long-term agility and innovation that are aligned with ADUSA's long-term roadmap.

The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in SAP S/4

HANA Retail merchandising capabilities, strong executive leadership skills, and a proven track record delivering large-scale ERP transformations in complex, high-volume retail environments.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one our Salisbury, NC location and 2 remote days.

• Provide strategic leadership and ownership of SAP Retail delivery on RISE with SAP S/4
  
  HANA Cloud, from Fit-to-Standard design through deployment, stabilization and post go-live support.
• Serve as the technology authority for SAP merchandising capabilities, including article and master data management, assortment and listing, pricing and promotions, vendor funding, and integration with SAP CAR and planning platforms, ensuring alignment with Clean Core principles, SAP Best Practices, and cloud operating standards.
• Partner closely with Merchandising and Finance leadership to translate commercial strategy into scalable SAP functional and technical designs, enabling accurate pricing execution, promotional effectiveness, margin transparency, and operational efficiency.
• Lead solution architecture and cross-functional integration across merchandising, supply chain, finance, store operations, and digital commerce systems, ensuring cohesive system-of-record ownership and end-to-end process integrity.
• Define and deliver integrations between SAP and best-of-breed merchandising, planning, analytics, and digital platforms to support assortment optimization, pricing execution, and vendor collaboration.

• Own delivery outcomes across the System Integrator and SAP RISE ecosystem, holding all partners accountable for scope execution, solution quality, and business results.
• Establish and enforce design governance, architecture standards, and release controls, ensuring solutions align with Clean Core principles, RISE service boundaries, and enterprise cloud operating models.
• Drive end-to-end delivery accountability across internal teams and external partners, proactively managing risks, dependencies, performance metrics, and corrective actions to ensure on-time, on-quality execution.
• Ensure RISE environments, transports, and testing strategies align to SAP Activate and enterprise Dev Ops standards.

• Lead the detailed SAP S/4
  
  HANA functional and technical design and configuration across relevant modules, including solution architecture, configuration workbooks (IMG), data objects, interfaces, and enhancements-ensuring alignment to Fit-to-Standard and Clean Core principles.
• Partner with the Merchandising Business led to govern Fit-to-Standard decisions to balance business differentiation with standardization and long-term maintainability.
• Own the end-to-end integration across SAP and non-SAP platforms, defining APIs, event-driven patterns, and middleware flows (e.g., SAP BTP Integration Suite) to ensure seamless, real-time process execution across merchandising, supply chain, and omnichannel systems.
• Translate business needs into SAP S/4
  
  HANA designs and configurations and validate solutions through end-to-end testing.
• Ensure seamless upstream/downstream integration with Finance, Supply Chain, Retail including POS, eCommerce, and last-mile platforms.
• Ensure high-quality master data, pricing accuracy, and promotion execution across channels.
• Deliver reporting, analytics and AI capabilities integrated with SAP on RISE.
• Drive adoption of embedded S/4
  
  HANA and RISE innovations to…