Senior Product Specialist - SAP Ariba

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

• Drive the roadmap, make appropriate trade-offs and execute.
• Gather requirements from key stakeholders including product marketing, sales, clients, prospects, and the development team for product improvements. Based on technical feasibility, sustainability, team estimates and capacity, decide appropriate release timelines.
• Be the interface between customer facing and engineering delivery teams, with the primary task of translating business needs into actionable, engineering-facing requirements.
• Prepare product backlog for sprint planning. Communicate and explain the product backlog to the team
• Partner with UX and development to collaboratively create mockups that translate into features
• Develop, collect and communicate metrics on solution performance.
• Coordinate Beta and GTM activities with key partners
• Identify and overcome barriers to success of solutions in specific markets by working collaboratively with the field.

What you'll bring

• 10+ years of total experience in software, and an innate understanding of what gets field sales and customers excited and frustrated.
• 3+ years of Product management and/or product marketing experience with on-premise and cloud applications and software.
• Ability to take responsibility proactively and demonstrated success in delivering world class software to market.
• Strong skills in working with and influencing key stakeholders from product, engineering, sales, consulting and marketing across the organization.
• Experience in leveraging various resources for GTM, field sales and marketing to ensure adoption and success of the solution portfolio.
• Credibility to pitch ideas to the field and harvest customer feedback and use cases that translate to product requirements to build solutions.
• Passion for combining technologies with business best practices
• Global experience and knowledge of enterprise application software products an advantage.

About the team

SAP Ariba has market leading solutions for the entire range of business-to-business commerce activities with the Ariba Network at the centre of the solutions. With annual transaction volume of over $5 trillion through Ariba network, we are the world’s biggest commerce network. The Ariba Buyer and Invoicing solutions help buyers and suppliers from more than 3 million businesses, operating in 190 countries, discover new opportunities, collaborate on transactions, and grow their relationships. We are creating new market leading products and solving very interesting problems while doing so. We are looking for a passionate Product Manager who can see the big picture while keeping track of the details.

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​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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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: 411200  | Work Area: Solution and Product Management  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations: #LI-Hybrid.