Manager, Retail ERP - Hy-Vee Food Stores

At Hy-Vee our people are our strength. We promise “a helpful smile in every aisle” and those smiles can only come from a workforce that is fully engaged and committed to supporting our customers and each other.






Job Description:




Job Title: Manager, Retail ERP FLSA: Exempt


Department: Information Technology Revision Date: 10/2024




General Function:


As the Manager, Retail ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning), you will work alongside a team of Retail & Technology professionals responsible for planning, establishing, and deploying Hy-Vee's future ERP landscape. Your primary focus is to create and bring to life the future application landscape covering third party and custom developed applications across a diverse set of business functional areas.




Core Competencies:

+ Partnerships

+ Growth mindset

+ Results oriented

+ Customer focused

+ Professionalism






Reporting Relations:


Accountable and Reports to: Director, Retail ERP


Direct Reports: None





Primary Duties and Responsibilities:



+ Assists in the creation of the future operating model for the holistic ERP solution, including defining the ERP and legacy application landscape integration and interoperability through implementation phases


+ Works with the System Integrator and Internal teams to:


+ Ensures program deliverables are consistent with retail and SAP leading technology practices


+ Develops the Implementation Roadmap and align internal and external resource staffing plans


+ Solves key ERP issues to improve functionality, efficiency and outcomes at the Retail level


+ Assists in providing innovative leadership to business partners by leveraging new technologies and new ways to utilize technology to generate value in operational excellence, real-time business intelligence, and improved communication to customers


+ Provides guidance and leadership on sun setting of legacy systems including data archiving considerations


+ Drives, manage and coordinate activities throughout assigned programs to ensure program progresses on schedule and within prescribed timeframe.


+ Assists with overseeing assigned program needs by studying, analyzing, and evaluating industry leading practices and lessons learned for program execution.


+ Recommend and implement approved modifications to process, resources, systems, or other applicable functions for future success of strategic programs


+ Defines and executes resource training and development for support of SAP and ancillary third-party applications enabling production cutover


+ Establishes culture of inclusion, critical thinking, and communication with architects, technical leads, and engineers to design interim or replacement solutions for legacy applications impacted by the ERP initiative


+ Assists the team that successfully designs innovative, user-focused, solutions involving a mixture of third party and custom applications


+ Provides retail knowledge in developing the data strategy for the ERP initiative while working in parallel with the Enterprise Data Team to execute the strategy.


+ Ensures collaboration and communication of data strategy and data model


+ Assists with technical system validation of proposed business process changes during the Design phase.


+ Coordinates and validating that system integrations will function efficiently, accurately, and without service interruptions in the future operating model


+ Responsible for viability of ERP application landscape to meet strategic growth needs by maintaining knowledge of state-of-the-art applications, application integration, delivery methodologies, micro-services application architecture designs, as well as emerging technologies


+ Facilitates alignment with other leaders across functional area project workstreams (Supply Chain, IT, Finance, etc.)


+ Provides thoughtful leadership to establish and enable architecture, scalability, best practices, technology portfolio, lifecycle management, as well as development standards and methodologies


+ Ensures application solutions are consistently of high quality, performant, without service interruption


+ Assists with leadership level communication and resolution for technical solutions and designs which may impact realization of benefits and provides guidance and support to stakeholders to mitigate potential risks to the deliverables


+ Demonstrates a clear, concise, effective communication style appropriate for technical and non-technical audiences


+ Creates win-win partnerships


+ Handles difficult situations effectively; resolve conflicts that arise





Education and Experience:

+ Bachelor’s degree preferred and 1 to 3 years of related experience or equivalent work experience

+ Business acumen in the retail business sector, grocery preferred

+ Demonstrated experience a plus:

+ Current development methodologies and design patterns

+ Delivering applications in a cloud platform

+ Implementing ERP solutions

+ Delivering digital solutions (mobile and web)

+ Experience influencing management on technical or business solutions

+ Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills






Physical Requirements:

+ Visual requirements include: ability to see detail at near range with or without correction.

+ Must be physically able to perform sedentary work: operating a computer, occasionally lifting or carrying objects of no more than 10 pounds, and occasionally standing or walking.

+ Must be able to perform the following physical activities: meeting with customers, kneeling, reaching, handling, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.






Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Worker Characteristics:

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills required.

+ Commitment to the Hy-Vee Mission and a willingness to promote the values of the company.

+ Strong interpersonal skills. An ability to relate to and interact with other people in a friendly, professional manner.

+ Ability to identify problems, develop and execute solutions.






Working Conditions: The duties for this position are performed in a general or remote office setting. There is weekly pressure to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks in a day.




Financial Responsibility: None




Equipment Used to Perform Job: Laptop and desktop computer, telephone, copier, Fax, printer, PC with Microsoft Office programs and other software relevant to specific position.




Confidentiality: Has access to confidential information.




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