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.The mission of SAP Ariba is to maintain and grow our leadership position in the Intelligent Spend Management cloud space, with best-of-breed products and market-leading innovation. 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 Buying 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, excites our customers and contributes to the business success of customers and SAP likewise.
The Role
We are looking for a passionate candidate who can lead a professional and future-oriented cloud product management team. Ideally, you bring a track record in leading multi-national cloud SaaS teams and are used to working in a fast-paced and agile organization. You will need to drive your team with a true Enterprise SaaS mindset, quickly establish credibility and trust with key SAP leaders, product marketing and product management teams, engineering teams, customers, and your future peers. As a product manager leader, you will also have a “CEO of your product” mindset, meaning you have accountability for driving success and growth of your respective product area. Your future product management team has the responsibility for a key part of our cloud Buying solution. Expertise in this or a related spend management area is an advantage, but candidates from other Enterprise SaaS areas, with a passion for learning and a track-record of quickly getting up to speed on new domains will also be considered.
What You’ll Do
Reporting to the Head of Product Management for SAP Ariba Buying and lead a team of dedicated product managers across multiple locations. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Lead a highly motivated and world class product management team with focus on Buying that supports strong synergies with other spend management modules as well as SAP S/4HANA
- Together with your team, take ownership of customer problems and turn them into product solutions from concept through to requirements, design, and delivery
- Collaborate with product marketing, engineering, and other stakeholders
- Engage customers, partners, and other stakeholders at all stages of the product lifecycle to ensure we are solving the right problems and building products our customers need
- Create a highly innovative and efficient organization
- Establish a network and act as a strong influencer in the respective SAP ecosystem
What You Bring
- 6+ years of relevant work experience in Enterprise SaaS Product Management
- Excellent people management & leadership skills and ability to deal with high pressure from internal and external stakeholders
- Leads by example and has a track-record of coaching and developing product management teams
- Excellent verbal communication skills with the customers, partners and internal teams, as well as executive level presentation skills
- Ideally, an international track record showcasing that you can effectively manage in-person and remote global teams
- Strong customer focus with previous exposure to key customers, as well as partner orientation
- Self-motivated and results-driven, with demonstrable success in previous positions
- Expertise in procurement / spend management or a related area is an advantage
- Quick comprehension and learning ability
- Strong experience in developing a customer value-focused and user-centric product strategy and roadmap
- Passionate about execution and product quality
- Fluent or near-native 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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Do what’s right. Make SAP better for generations to come.
We believe that great leadership extends far beyond the mere pursuit of business goals. We value and foster leadership that is driven with purpose and integrity. Our leaders are role models who uphold SAP’s values and shape SAP’s culture of integrity, by demonstrating and championing ethical and compliant behavior towards all stakeholders.
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.SAP is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to the values of Equal Employment Opportunity and provide accessibility accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities. If you are interested in applying for employment with SAP and are in need of accommodation or special assistance to navigate our website or to complete your application, please send an e-mail with your request to Recruiting Operations Team: Careers@sap.comFor SAP employees: Only permanent roles are eligible for the SAP Employee Referral Program, according to the eligibility rules set in the SAP Referral Policy. Specific conditions may apply for roles in Vocational Training.
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: 429369 | Work Area: Consulting and Professional Services | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Management | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: .
