Director - Product Management

We help the world run better

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 THE TEAM

SAP Procurement is SAP's strategic suite of solutions designed to help organizations manage their procurement and sourcing processes efficiently. It enables businesses to automate purchasing, optimize supplier relationships, and control spending while ensuring compliance with procurement policies. Our team is spread across Europe, North America, and Asia and is responsible for outbound and inbound product management and for driving SAP Procurement's strategy to defining requirements and executing them with engineering.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

This role requires a self-directed team player with business and technical acumen, ready to be a deep expert in the Procurement product.

• In this role you would be working closely with product managers, UX, engineering, and QA to define the vision for your portfolio of the Procurement suite, refine requirements, plan releases, and support customers and partners.
• Collaborating closely with product manager peers to create and maintain a backlog maximizing business value based on strategy and ROI.
• Ensuring requirements are elaborated fully and engineering teams always have adequate prepared tasks to execute on.
• Actively mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of releases.
• Plus, support our internal teams and customers to understand new features and releases. Assisting product managers and other teams to present features, create webinars, and run workshops at events for our customers

WHAT YOU BRING

• University degree in engineering/computer science or business administration
• Minimum of 8+ years in a B2B SaaS environment as a product manager, with at least 2 years as a people manager.
• Domain knowledge of procurement products, preferably experience with Supplier Management
• Strength in grooming backlogs and elaborate requirements to a successful definition of ready.
• Expertise in supporting sprints and delivering releases.
• Technical and business acumen.
• Ability to work with engineers, QA, UX, and product managers as a strong team player.
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment with a growth mindset and bias for action.
• Work effectively in a diverse global team environment with complex products and projects. Including having humility and being open to giving and receiving feedback.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Engage with internal and external customers to resolve issues as a last line of support
• Assist in facilitating workshops at customer events and creating enablement content.
• Strong hands-on mindset.

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.

We win with inclusion

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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EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability:

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, religion, national origin, ethnicity, age, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, et al), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, or disability.

Successful candidates might be required to undergo a background verification with an external vendor.

Requisition ID: | Work Area: Solution and Product Management | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.