Product Specialist

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At SAP, we keep it simple: you bring your best to us, and we'll bring out the best in you. We're builders touching over 20 industries and 80% of global commerce, and we need your unique talents to help shape what's next. The work is challenging – but it matters. You'll find a place where you can be yourself, prioritize your wellbeing, and truly belong. What's in it for you? Constant learning, skill growth, great benefits, and a team that wants you to grow and succeed. 

The Role 

As a Product Management Specialist (m/f/d), you will help to shape the long-term vision and strategy for our next-generation enterprise commerce cloud solution, while taking critical ownership in supporting its successful launch in 2026. Your role will be central in defining a bold product roadmap, working with cross-functional teams, and executing a go-to-market plan that positions our platform for immediate impact and lasting market leadership. You will build strong partnerships with key stakeholders – across product management, engineering, field operations, marketing, and the partner ecosystem – to ensure market readiness, customer enablement, and reliable delivery. You will drive accelerated adoption, inspire innovation, and lay the foundation for significant growth, establishing our commerce cloud as the preferred choice in the industry for years to come. 

What you’ll do 

This role will be part of the SAP Commerce Cloud organization, reporting to the Head of Product-Led Growth. Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:  

• Communicate a compelling product vision, strategy, and detailed roadmap, ensuring alignment with global business and customer requirements.
• Support the senior leadership effectively by driving strategic initiatives directly on behalf of the Head of Product-Led Growth.
• Conduct market analyses to assess the attractiveness of investment areas.
• Drive the adoption and usage of our commerce from launch to post-launch activities, collaborating intensively with marketing, field, engineering, and solution partners to maximize launch impact. 
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with key ecosystem players for accelerated innovation, integration, and customer adoption. 
• Run critical business analyses on our product portfolio with a focus on financial performance and own the creation of critical reporting assets like dashboards and presentations.
• Build strategic ISV and SI partnerships and an ecosystem to support the product growth. 
• Collaborate with the GTM team to implement and support go-to-market programs, early adopter initiatives, and success tracking measures that foster product uptake and feedback. 
• Translate evolving market needs, competitive insights, and customer feedback into actionable features and prioritization within the product roadmap. 
• Ensure high-quality reporting of roadmap innovations and other product achievements to senior management.
• Support rapid prototyping and proof-of-concept cycles to validate new scenarios ahead of full launch. 
• Represent the product vision in both internal and external forums, providing thought leadership at scale.
• Make a contribution towards efficiency, effectiveness, and process improvement.

What you bring 

• Bachelor’s degree or higher, preferably in a business or software technology domain.
• Relevant work experience in the software industry, ideally in a product management or program management role.
• Experience in enterprise SaaS software, with initial success in delivering market-leading cloud solutions, product strategy, roadmap planning, and executing high-impact product launches on a global scale. 
• Knowledge about SAP’s business application portfolio, in particular, customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP).
• Familiarity with large enterprise software requirements processes and tooling (in particular roadmap and software requirement management).
• Deep understanding of the product management role and product development processes, being an advocate for product-led growth.
• Expertise in building strategic partnerships attached to Cloud ERP.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, translating market and customer signals into actionable product innovation. 
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for technical and business audiences, with a track record of thought leadership. 
• Well-versed in with SAP processes to navigate effectively.
• Ability to build influential partnerships with diverse stakeholders-internal and external-including engineering, marketing, field, and partner organizations. 
• Experience in managing complex and multifaceted projects with successful outcomes and timely delivery.
• Excellent knowledge of tools like Jira, Microsoft Projects, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, and ideally BI tools to create reporting dashboards like SAP Analytics Cloud.
• Flexibility to work on a diverse set of product topics across functional domains.
• Ability to work independently on projects with functional ownership.
• Excellent team player and collaborator across matrix organizations.
• Flexibility to work under time constraints and as part of an international team with multiple time zones (including Europe and the United States).
• Can-do attitude and mindset to solve complex problems in a pragmatic and timely manner.
• Self-motivated and results-driven, with demonstrable success in previous roles or projects.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with customers, partners and internal teams.
• 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.  

We win with inclusion
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Requisition ID: 443563  | Work Area: Solution and Product Management  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular Full Time   | Additional Locations:  #LI-Hybrid