Multi-brand Australasian retail group operating 150+ stores across craft, outdoor, and homewares
Spotlight Retail Group operates four distinct retail banners (Spotlight, Anaconda, Harris Scarfe, Mountain Designs) across 150+ locations in Australasia with over 8,500 staff. The tech stack is SAP-centric (ECC, MM, SD, WM, Retail modules) paired with Adobe creative tools and Google marketing infrastructure — typical of large retail operations. Notably, the company is now adopting Snowflake and Power BI while migrating away from Oracle and MicroStrategy, signaling a shift toward cloud-native analytics to support inventory and sales performance tracking across geographically dispersed stores.
Spotlight Retail Group (SRG) is a privately held Australasian retailer encompassing four brands: Spotlight (craft, fabric, and home interiors), Anaconda (outdoor adventure equipment), Harris Scarfe (homewares and general merchandise with heritage dating to 1849), and Mountain Designs (outdoor retail). The group operates over 150 retail premises occupying 4.2 million square feet across Australia, New Zealand, and two additional countries, with a Melbourne headquarters overseeing finance, IT, supply chain, and shared services for all brands. The sales-heavy hiring profile (131 active roles, primarily junior and manager levels) reflects store-focused operations and customer acquisition priorities.
SAP ECC, MM, SD, WM, and Retail modules form the core enterprise backbone, supported by Adobe Creative Suite for merchandising, Google Ads and DV360 for marketing, and Microsoft 365 for collaboration. The group is currently adopting Snowflake and Power BI.
Active projects include visual merchandising standards, catalogue campaigns, stock integrity and shrinkage reduction, new store openings, store performance improvement, and customer service strategy implementation — all aimed at increasing sales and improving inventory accuracy across multiple locations.
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