Senior Product Specialist

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.

What you'll do

As a Product Specialist (m/f/d) in the Data Products & Insights team, you will define priorities for analytics content and applications built on the next generation SAP data platform. The new platform will enable customers to make full value of their SAP data for analytics, data engineering or AI scenarios. We will accelerate the time-to-value for customers and SAP application teams with SAP-curated data models. Additionally, we will offer a set of analytical applications to create actionable insight from the data.

To support our ambitious project, you will work with customers, partners, field services and internal product teams to identify market requirements and derive product priorities. You will closely interact with engineering teams in your organization and other SAP application teams, to translate high-level requirements into executable backlogs and finally succesful products on the market.
 

• Product Strategy – refine the product vision and promote it with customers, partners and internal stakeholders within Product Engineering
• Product Management – collect feedback from internal and external stakeholders, apply a structured ranking of the requirements and transform them into a product backlog
• Stakeholder Management – suggest new use cases to our internal stakeholders and obtain their commitment to support the realization of the use cases
• Market insights – examine market trends, customer needs and competitive landscape to identify new opportunities for product growth and differentiation
• Roll-out – evangelize our roadmap and explain new capabilities towards customers and partners, support the product adoption by lighthouse customers
• Product performance – you are accountable for product adoption and thus will ensure the product usage and customer satisfaction are properly tracked, and corrective actions are taken when necessary

 
What you bring
 

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering or related field. MBA or similar business orientation would be a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in enterprise data and analytics topics with a minimum of 2 years in a product management role
• Experience with SAP Analytics Cloud / SAP Datasphere or competitor analytics tools / data warehousing environments
• Ideally experience with at least one of the core SAP Business Applications (Enterprise Resource Planning, Human Capital Management, Spend Management, Customer Experience) or similar competitor products
• Experience with Databricks and/or Spark preferred
• Excellent communication and presentation skills - addressing internal teams, partners and customers appropriately on different organizational levels
• Solid technical background to effectively communicate with engineering teams
• Experience in data management, data engineering or analytics topics, including data lake approaches

Meet your team

Our team is delivering a single platform to simplify our customers’ data management, analytics, planning and AI needs. We establish data engineering workloads on top of critical SAP business applications through semantically unified data access across the SAP portfolio and Partner Solutions. Finally, we enable our customers to unlock the value of all this data with unique Insight Apps directly integrated to the data stack.

​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.
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.com
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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: 412086  | Work Area: Solution and Product Management  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.