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About the Role

Lead a team of functional consultants to maintain Zalando's supply chain core, focusing on Materials Management, IS-Retail, Inventory Management, and Material Valuation in a high-volume e-commerce environment.

Responsibilities

• Mentor, coach, and develop a team of SAP Functional Consultants, fostering continuous learning and high performance.
• Drive the design and optimization of complex inventory processes, split valuations, and integrations with external Warehouse Management Systems.
• Lead the roadmap for SAP MM and IS-Retail, ensuring system configurations can handle peak traffic.
• Collaborate with Finance, Logistics, and Product teams to translate business needs into scalable SAP solutions.
• Manage team backlogs, prioritize sprints, and ensure high-quality configurations and documentation.
• Act as the primary liaison between technical teams and business units, managing expectations and aligning stakeholders on the roadmap.
• Translate e-commerce business requirements into scalable SAP solutions that support inventory and financial valuation.
• Manage senior business stakeholder expectations during system disruptions by providing root-cause analyses, risk assessments, and recovery timelines.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading, mentoring, or functionally guiding a team of SAP professionals in an agile environment.
• Deep functional knowledge of SAP MM (Purchasing, Inventory Management, Physical Inventory) and SAP IS-Retail (Article Master, Merchandise Categories, Listing).
• Strong expertise in Material Valuation (Standard Price vs. Moving Average, Split Valuation) and its integration with SAP FI/CO.
• Experience with large-scale data and understanding the challenges of fashion e-commerce inventory management.
• Experience with SAP S/4HANA is highly preferred.
• Familiarity with cloud environments and modern API integrations is a plus.
• Fluency in English, with the ability to explain complex technical SAP architecture to non-technical business stakeholders.

Skills

• SAP MM
• SAP IS-Retail
• Inventory Management
• Material Valuation
• Split Valuation
• SAP FI/CO Integration
• Agile Methodologies
• Stakeholder Management
• Team Leadership
• SAP S/4HANA
• Cloud Environments
• API Integrations

Location

• Germany

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Team Lead

Benefits

• 27 days of holiday per year (increasing with tenure up to 30 days)
• 2 paid volunteering days per year
• Employee shares programme
• 40% discount on fashion and beauty products sold and shipped by Zalando
• 30% discount on Lounge by Zalando
• Discounts from external partners
• Relocation assistance available
• Family services, including counselling and support
• Health and wellbeing options (including Wellhub)
• Mental health support and coaching
• Training platform access
• Biannual peer-to-peer review

About the Company

• Zalando is a leading fashion e-commerce platform in Europe.
• Their vision is to be inclusive by design.
• Information about Zalando's values and diversity & inclusion strategy is available.

Equal Opportunity

• Zalando does not discriminate on the basis of gender identity, sexual orientation, personal expression, ethnicity, religious belief, or disability status.
• Candidates are assessed solely on qualifications and merit.
• Accommodations can be requested during the hiring process.