About the role

  • SAP Product Manager leading financial controlling solutions for a global food and agriculture company. Overseeing SAP S/4 and related product rollouts and enhancements across business units.

Responsibilities

  • Work with business owners and the SAP vendor product team to define and align on the product roadmap, epics, features, capabilities, and overall deployment approach
  • Collaborate with business owners to understand future business needs and align those needs to the product roadmap
  • Support the Agile delivery teams to prioritize, build, and deploy the roadmap
  • Govern the solution globally as different business groups are on-boarded; provide guidance for identifying rational variation versus irrational variation in the solution
  • Own the backlog for project work and enhancement work; includes prioritization and negotiation with the business
  • Be the ultimate decision-maker/accountable person for the SAP products in their portfolio
  • Set both the immediate and long-term vision for your product portfolio
  • Communicate the vision to key stakeholders
  • Be transparent about the “why” and “how” for decision-making
  • Support the delivery teams with continued prioritization, trade-off discussions, and roadblock removal
  • Collaborate with the Program team to help set goals for each product increment
  • Collaborate with the business owners, users, SMEs, cutover team, training team, and the OCM team to deploy product features into the business
  • Support the team and business owners during the initial go-live events and provide leadership and focus on deployment issues or defects
  • Collaborate with the delivery teams and the IT support team to ensure the products have a working support model
  • Maintain close contact with the super-user network (SUN) to identify how the product is being used and where improvement to the product or process is necessary
  • Collaborate with the SAP Principal Enterprise Architect and the vendor’s product team to monitor and plan for new capabilities, future enhancements, etc.
  • Manage the cost of the solution and relationship with the vendor’s product team(s)
  • Monitor the return on investment for the products in your portfolio
  • Monitor the life of the product including vendor roadmaps and their end-of-life dates
  • Plan for the replacement of the product if the functionality is still needed by the business

Requirements

  • 8+ years related experience and/or training
  • Bachelor’s degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4 year college or university

Benefits

  • Must be able to establish the trust of the business
  • Ability to influence and drive consensus with stakeholders
  • Must have excellent leadership and collaboration skills
  • Deep knowledge of the financial controlling space
  • Deep knowledge of the systems/modules that are in the RTR-CO portfolio
  • Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to present effectively to all levels of audiences from Executives to boots-on-the-ground stakeholders
  • Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills
  • Ability to take a complex solution or concept and explain it in a simple, easy to understand way

Job title

SAP Product Manager, RTR-CO

Job type

Experience level

SeniorLead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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