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As a Senior Product Specialist for SAP Integrated Business Planning (IBP) (f/m/d) you will collaborate closely with our internal and external business stakeholders by providing solutions and guidance to customers and partners.

Reporting to the Head of Product Success for S/4HANA Cloud Private and SCM, you will work in a globally distributed team of IBP experts.

You will be part of a new and growing Product Success hub in Budapest, with colleagues from different units of the same organization.

Voice of the customer and partner

• Be the primary technical-functional counterpart for focus customers and partners; surface needs, challenges, and outcomes with clear evidence.

• Run a tight feedback loop: capture, consolidate, and validate insights; translate them into prioritized asks for Product Management and Development; track decision and delivery.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with customers to understand their needs, challenges, and goals

• Represent cross-customer patterns via Expert Communities of Practice; influence roadmaps and backlog with data-backed themes.

• Communicate proactively on roadmaps, changes, and best practices, drive advocacy and references through visible customer outcomes.

• Support upgrade process to minimize disruption and accelerate use of new capabilities.

Innovation adoption and value

• Orchestrate innovation adoption from pilot to scale: Early Adopter Care, beta validation, and post-release guidance.

• Ensure projects land value: regular engagement during implementations, risk prevention, and early de-escalation.

• Define and execute customer action plans focused on measurable outcomes and time-to-value.

Cross-functional impact

• Align Customer Success, Consulting, Support, Partners, Marketing, Product, and Development on clear customer objectives and adoption plays.

• Provide real-world examples and co-innovation opportunities to Development to shape and harden features.

• Share knowledge that scales: produce and maintain high-value assets (blogs, micro-learnings, webinars, SAP Learning courses) to enable the ecosystem and deflect tickets.

Scope notes

• Focus on being the voice of customers and partners to the product organization and the driver of innovation adoption in the field.

Role Requirements:

• 6+ years of experience, preferably in consulting or product management for IBP or Supply Chain topics

• Extensive knowledge of SAP Cloud ERP products and technology, as well as SAP BTP solutions/engines with an expertise in SCM Planning

• Proven track record in successfully delivering IBP or equivalent planning projects or other customer facing programs

• Strong network of experts, including SAP partners and customers

• Very good communication and stakeholder management skills

• Fluent in English is a must, German and further languages are advantageous to better support the location of our content

• University degree, preferably in Business Information Technologies or Logistics or equivalent training and job experience.

Meet your team

• You will be part of very diverse team of software professionals in Cloud ERP Product Success
• Supply Chain Management. The team members bring a mix of deep product expertise and the ability to manage globally complex projects. The team is extremely well connected to its stakeholders which is the basis for its global success. Our credo is: “there is no customer success without product success and project success”.

Find more information on our team here:

https://sap.sharepoint.com/teams/S4H

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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Requisition ID: 435754 | Work Area: Solution and Product Management | Expected Travel: 0 - 10% | Career Status: Professional | Employment Type: Regular Full Time | Additional Locations: #