Digital Product Area Owner

We are looking for a new DPAO for one of our top clients to join their SAP CE Business Warehouse, Integrated Business Planning and Service Billing team.

As the Digital Product Area Owner, you will strategically oversee the digital product capabilities in SAP BW, IBP and Service Billing and ensure alignment with the organization's overall strategy. You will collaborate with other parts of the organization, both in Digital & IT, with the different business units and Group Functions. We are an environment where ideas, thoughts and opinions can be shared. We are team players with clear common ambitions, and we create the future together.

As the Digital Product Area Owner, you will be a key in adding value by aligning strategy with competence capacity and methods to the expected transformation towards the targeted footprint. Your main responsibilities may include:

- Develop the capabilities vision, strategy, goal & roadmap aligned with business priorities
- Manage budget and financial follow up for the area
- Manage cross team dependencies and support collaboration both within and outside area, and business partners
- Support overarching capabilities prioritization in one rhythm and contribute on roadmap planning
- Facilitate capacity management and resource allocation discussions across the area
- Actively work for teams' empowerment, building the needed skills, competencies and trust for teams to take ownership of shared capabilities and cultivating agile mindset
- Strive for simplification, encourage waste reduction and continuous improvement
- Nurture collaboration, stimulate great conversation and transparency between stakeholders
- Secure that capabilities are developed and maintained in compliance within given architecture and security guidelines, meeting required quality expectations until decommissioning
- Drive for capabilities development based on end-user, market trend and data analysis, understand the business and their end-users to evolve capabilities and make right priorities over its lifecycle
- Manage, as line manager, the professional development and support career development of the team members through coaching and performance feedback

Who are you?

We believe you want to take your career to the next level, working with amazing people around the world. To be successful in this position we believe:

- You have university degree and several years of experience in people leadership, with hands-on consulting or development experience in one or more of SAP domains e.g. SAP BW, Integrated Business Planning or Service Billing
- Understand the cost, risks and compliance requirements associated with the development and operations to assess the benefit and value
- You are able to think and act strategically but also to operate and implement change tactically when required, dealing effectively with ambiguity and managing changing priorities
- Have the experience and knowledge of how to handle a global technological transformation on a strategic level
- Possess solid communication and collaboration skills and a passion for leading, inspiring and developing people
- Your are a passionate believer in lifelong learning
- You should feel energized by working both independently and interdependently, have proven skills in cross-functional collaboration and thrive in managing, foster, and enable both the perform and the transform angles of the job

Our client can offer you:

- Impact on the development of crucial products of the premium brand on a global scale
- Participation in international projects and different pieces of training
- Steep learning curve with a state-of-the-art and individualized training program
- Clear career path & extensive development opportunities such as mentoring or coaching programs
- Unlimited access to learning including Azure Academy, Pluralsight, Udemy, and many more
- Social and sport clubs, charity actions
- Work-life balance: we make sure you enjoy quality time away from work
- Contract of employment, hybrid work model, flexible working hours, tax-deductible costs
- Financial bonuses: annual, for holidays, as a referral system and rewards for additional contributions
- Private healthcare, psychological care, MyBenefit cafeteria system, subsidy for sports cards and many more...

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