Senior Merchandise Transformation Manager

About Us

Let’s create a more sociable future together

At Endeavour, we’re totally into what we do. With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, we love to bring people together. Together we share our passion for our products and industry; it’s what inspires us to dream big, and continue to create new experiences for our customers and teams across Australia. If you thrive on positive energy, we want to meet you!

• Bring your passion and feel the energy!
• Own the strategic direction of Merchandising for our Enterprise SAP ERP implementation; bridging commercial vision with complex technical delivery
• 18 Month Fixed Term opportunity (FTC) with enterprise visibility

Endeavour Group demerged from Woolworths in 2011 and is establishing how we operate as an independent business and establish supporting technology, including the implementation of a new SAP ERP S/4 Hana & Supplier Portal.

Join us as the Senior Merchandise Transformation Manager and operate as the Merchandise Business Lead for this program, playing a pivotal role in delivering this monumental program through to its successful completion.

You will prioritise business outcomes, bridge commercial and technical delivery through build, testing and cutover, resolve cross functional dependencies and ensure Merchandise and Supplier outcomes land effectively into hypercare and BAU.

Operating within the 'Three-in-a-Box' (Business, Delivery & Technology) leadership structure, your mission is to be the business decision leader for all Merchandising and Trade Supplier business outcomes, balancing business requirements with technical constraints.

You will lead a dedicated team of 5 Merchandise Subject Matter Expert’s, ensuring technical solutions balance legacy ecosystem constraints with the delivery of strategic transition goals. This role requires critical judgment to prioritize strategic change over operational requests, effective dependency management, and close collaboration with business leaders and external partners to achieve our ambitious technical and commercial objectives.

Sound good? Read on. Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

• Strategic Decision-Making: Serve as the ultimate Merchandising and Supplier decision-maker, prioritizing strategic outcomes over conflicting operational demands and driving the program's requirements.
• High-Value Stakeholder Management: Build consensus among high-interest stakeholders with conflicting requirements, maintaining a clear, coherent Merchandise product vision across multiple delivery teams.
• Vendor and Delivery Accountability: Support the management of complex, multi-partner dependencies, ensuring delivery partners meet business objectives.
• Governance and
  
  Risk Management:
  
  Exercise critical judgment on technical trade-offs, managing ambiguity, assessing risks, and escalating key dependencies to senior functional leadership.
• Transformation Leadership & Alignment: Lead a team of 5 Merchandise SMEs and influence cross-functional teams (Tech, Data, Change, UX) to ensure connected, comprehensive solution delivery.
• End-to-End Delivery Ownership: Lead the Merchandise SME team through all build, testing, cutover (SIT/UAT), cutover and hypercare phases for the ERP Transition and new Partner Portal implementation, ensuring designs translate into workable solutions, critical defects are resolved, data & supplier impacts are managed and go-lives are executed safely.
• Change Adoption Champion: Champion the 'Why' of the transition to overcome organizational resistance and ensure effective adoption of new processes, data readiness, and supplier impacts into Business As Usual (BAU).

Now let’s talk about you:

• 7+ years in senior roles in Merchandising or Technology delivery in FMCG environment, ideally having involvement with the successful implementation of a large scale merchandise technology program
• Strong Merchandise domain knowledge with an understanding of retail management and supplier landscapes to ensure technology solutions solve the correct business problems
• Strong experience managing senior, high-interest stakeholders with potentially…