Product Manager - SAP

We’ve been proudly serving Australian communities since 1914 and have grown to become a top 30-listed company on the ASX with a portfolio of iconic homegrown brands. At the heart of our continued success is over 115,000 team members working across the country, all contributing to bringing our customers smiles. You’ll not only get to see your work make a difference, you’ll be part of a team working together to help Australians eat and live better every day.

About the team

Our Technology team is the backbone of the business, building and maintaining the information technology infrastructure that support Coles Group. As a part of the Technology team, you get the opportunity to work through complex, challenging, meaningful problems using large data sets and new technologies to expand your skills and experience.

Our Technology team is focused on creating products and experiences that make a meaningful difference for our team members and customers. This role sits within our Corporate Technology portfolio; partnering across Technology, business stakeholders and external software and implementation partners to shape and deliver products that support critical Employee Experience and Payroll processes.

You’ll join a collaborative product environment where customer needs, measurable outcomes and strong cross-functional partnerships guide how we prioritise and deliver value.

About the role

As Product Manager, you’ll own the product vision, strategy and roadmap for a suite of people and Employee Experience products, with a strong focus on SAP SuccessFactors and Payroll capabilities.

This is a complex, high-consequence product environment where pay accuracy, regulatory compliance and critical payroll milestones matter. You’ll balance strategic product investment with legislative, compliance and operational priorities, making clear trade-offs and ensuring the team remains focused on the highest-value and highest-priority outcomes.

You’ll lead across a distributed, multidisciplinary squad/s, including offshore delivery partners, creating clarity around the product vision, priorities and decisions while building an inclusive environment where team members are empowered and accountable for outcomes.

You’ll bring strong payroll domain experience within a large, complex environment, with a solid understanding of end-to-end payroll processes and compliance.

Strong experience managing payroll technology products is required, ideally including SAP SuccessFactors, and must be confident supporting teams in translating complex payroll requirements into clear product priorities and technology outcomes.

About you and your skills

We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager who combines strong product craft with deep experience in enterprise payroll technology.

You’ll be comfortable operating in a large, complex environment where pay accuracy, compliance and critical delivery dates matter, and where success depends on bringing business and technology teams together around clear priorities and outcomes.

You’ll bring:

• Demonstrated Product Management experience, with a strong track record of owning product roadmaps and delivering measurable customer and business outcomes.
• Strong enterprise payroll technology experience and an understanding of end-to-end payroll processes, controls and compliance. Experience with SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central Payroll is highly regarded.
• Strong product judgement and prioritisation skills, with experience balancing strategic initiatives, regulatory and legislative obligations, operational priorities, technical health and competing stakeholder demand.
• Strong discovery and problem-solving capability - able to get underneath stakeholder requests, define the problem to be solved and translate complex business needs into clear product outcomes and priorities.
• Experience leading multidisciplinary, distributed teams, including offshore delivery partners, creating clarity and accountability while empowering teams to operate autonomously.
• Strong systems thinking, with the ability to understand complex business rules, integrations and upstream/downstream dependencies across an enterprise technology landscape.
• Demonstrated ability to influence, negotiate and make difficult trade-offs across senior business stakeholders, technology teams and external partners.
• The confidence to challenge constructively, make decisions when there is ambiguity and maintain momentum in a complex environment.

This is an opportunity to combine your product expertise with deep payroll knowledge to shape technology that supports one of Australia’s largest workforces.

What’s in it for you?

• Flexible working options: We know that work is only one part of your life, so we actively encourage a positive work-life balance and provide hybrid working options to help you achieve it.
• Office perks: Take advantage of our gym facility and fitness classes, free parking, BBQ area, mini-Coles supermarket, fooderie hub where you can sample new products before they hit the shelves, school holiday program and so much more when you come in.
• Discounts: Eligible team members receive 5% discount all year round on your Supermarket and Liquor online and in-store purchases. We also offer additional periods of double discount (10%) at various times throughout the year. As well as hotdeals exclusive to team members that translate into additional savings.
• Reward through recognition: Give and receive recognition, linked to our Coles values, through our digital recognition platform ‘mythanks’. You can accumulate points to redeem in the online shop for exciting gifts and electronic gift cards from an extensive range of retailers.
• Opportunities for learning and development: No matter where you start within our diverse business, you’ll have experiences, exposure, and education to satisfy you. Discover and explore a variety of career development programs and job-specific training.
• Paid parental leave: We understand how important your life outside work is and offer permanent team members paid parental leave to support you in balancing work and family.
• Investment in your future: Our annual team member share plan offer allows eligible team members to make regular pre-tax salary sacrifice deductions to purchase Coles Group shares.

About the recruitment process

We’re continuing to build a gender equitable team, and a culture that is just as diverse, inclusive and welcoming as the communities we serve. We are committed to creating a workplace that is safe and respectful for our team. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities.

We’re happy to adjust our recruitment process to support candidates with disability. For further information and additional contact details visit the ‘Our Recruitment Process’ section of our careers site or email [email protected]

Job ID: 197789

Employment Type: Full time