Multichain European retailer scaling HR and systems operations
REWE Group operates a nine-country retail footprint (BILLA, PENNY, BIPA, ADEG) with 46,500+ employees, anchored by a 3,500-person headquarters in Vienna managing both domestic and international operations. The tech stack is enterprise-heavy (SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, Java/Spring) with recent Kubernetes/Docker adoption, while hiring velocity is accelerating across engineering (18 open roles) and HR (14 open roles) — signaling active infrastructure and process modernization. The project backlog reveals internal friction: payroll integration complexity (multiple systems), CMDB/asset management debt, and candidate experience gaps suggest the organization is mid-transformation, moving from monolithic legacy systems toward cleaner API-first interfaces and automation.
Notable leadership hires: Payroll Team Lead
REWE Group is a publicly traded Austrian retailer operating supermarket and drugstore chains across Austria and eight additional European markets. The company supplies groceries and pharmacy items at national and international scale, with operations spanning Bulgaria to Hungary. The Vienna headquarters coordinates group strategy, international expansion, and shared services for HR, finance, IT, and supply-chain functions. The workforce spans over 400 distinct job profiles across all seniority levels. Active projects focus on payroll modernization, inventory/shelf-planning systems, vulnerability management, and IT service onboarding — all core to maintaining stable multi-country operations.
Enterprise core (SAP, Oracle, ServiceNow, Business Objects), cloud infrastructure (GCP, Docker, Kubernetes), Java/Spring/Kotlin for backend services, PostgreSQL/SQL for data, and Microsoft 365 for productivity.
Wiener Neudorf, Austria. The headquarters employs ~3,500 people across 400+ job profiles and oversees both Austrian and international retail operations across nine countries.
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