Senior Procurement Product Manager

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 youll 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