Product Manager

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At SAP, we enable you to bring out your best. Our company culture is focused on collaboration and a shared passion to help the world run better. How? We focus every day on building the foundation for tomorrow and creating a workplace that embraces differences, values flexibility, and is aligned to our purpose-driven and future-focused work. We offer a highly collaborative, caring team environment with a strong focus on learning and development, recognition for your individual contributions, and a variety of benefit options for you to choose from.

Meet your team 
The mission of SAP S/4HANA and the Public Cloud ERP Product Management team is to drive and grow SAP’s core business as a market leader in Cloud ERP. We are responsible for defining product scenarios based on market and target customer needs and translating them into consumable product requirements for engineering teams. We work hand-in-hand with our engineering and product marketing teams, as well as with our customers and partners on continuously improving our SAP S/4HANA Cloud Public Edition product. Product Management is the authoritative voice of the legitimate challenges customers face, evangelizing an outcome-based product vision and roadmap that truly solves customer pain points by creating products that delight, yet serve the needs of SAP.

The Role

We are looking for a passionate candidate (m/f/d) that has an interdisciplinary mindset and can lead a scrum team team without formal authority and collaborates with cross-functional from other domains. Ideally, you bring a track record in software product management and have a background in management accounting.

You will need to define and validate all requirements against the defined SaaS target market and strictly order the backlog for your product area in management accounting according to the customer market value.

As a product manger, you are accountable for the product succes in your area and steer the product based on adoption and satisfaction KPIs enriched by facts and figures.

What you’ll do
As Product Manager for Financial Planning & Analysis (m/f/d) in Public Cloud ERP you will work in a matrix set-up. This means you work very closely with a scrum team along the innovation process from ideation to adoption and you work with a team of Product Managers across multiple locations on the cross-domain alignment to build business critical end-to-end scenario. As a product manager you will report to the Product Management Head of Financial Planning & Analysis Public in Cloud ERP. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Owns and prioritizes the product backlog of a scrum team in the area of management accounting which reflects customer and user needs in order to achieve competitive advantage and increases the value for a broad customer base
• Provides holistic overview on the overall product vision and  product backlog and ensures the product teams have a comprehensive understanding of the product backlog 
• Utilizes user personas, story boards, use case diagrams, and experiments to ensure the product meets customer needs
• Is responsible for the success, quality, adoption, usage and satisfaction of a product area
• Ensures creation of product-related non-coded assets in close cooperation with central teams
• Constantly, evaluates market trends and competitive products on basis of publicly available information to ensure his/her product is on-par or competitive in the current market
• Contributes to the efficiency, effectiveness and improvement of processes used in Product Engineering
• Engage with customers, partners, and other stakeholders at all stages of the product lifecycle to ensure we are solving the right problems and building products with high adoption rates and good satisfaction scores  
• Partner with User Experience (UX) to ensure an intuitive, delightful, user experience where users can truly experience the product’s value
• Builds and maintains partnerships with internal and external customers and partners

What you bring

• 3+ years of experience as a product manager in the tech industry, preferably with management accounting or financial software products
• Strong understanding of management accounting principles, financial management, and related business processes
• Excellent verbal, communication skills with customers, partners, and internal teams, as well as good presentation skills
• Experience with agile product management methodologies, frameworks, and tools
• Certification in Product Management (CPM) or similar will be advantageous
• Knows and emphasizes with all functions involved in a SaaS business
• Proven ability to lead and collaborate effectivly with cross-functional teams
• Understands the cloud ecosystem where it is going and how to leverage
• Strong problem-solving abilities and capable of making data-driven decisions
• Ideally, an international track record showcasing that you can effectively relate to multicultural teams 
• Self-motivated and results-driven, with demonstrable success in previous positions
• Fluent English language skills

​Bring out your best

SAP innovations help more than four hundred thousand customers worldwide work together more efficiently and use business insight more effectively. Originally known for leadership in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, SAP has evolved to become a market leader in end-to-end business application software and related services for database, analytics, intelligent technologies, and experience management. As a cloud company with two hundred million users and more than one hundred thousand employees worldwide, we are purpose-driven and future-focused, with a highly collaborative team ethic and commitment to personal development. Whether connecting global industries, people, or platforms, we help ensure every challenge gets the solution it deserves. At SAP, you can bring out your best.

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SAP’s culture of inclusion, focus on health and well-being, and flexible working models help ensure that everyone – regardless of background – feels included and can run at their best. At SAP, we believe we are made stronger by the unique capabilities and qualities that each person brings to our company, and we invest in our employees to inspire confidence and help everyone realize their full potential. We ultimately believe in unleashing all talent and creating a better and more equitable world.
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Requisition ID: 398981  | Work Area: Software-Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.