SAP Product Manager- Manchester

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a SAP Product Manager to work for our client within the retail sector. This is initially a 6 month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in Manchester.

Our client is seeking a SAP Product Manager who is passionate about building products that customers love and managing the product management lifecycle from design and build through to launch and maintenance. You will act as the ‘voice of the customer’ (both internal colleagues and external) at the intersection of product design, technology and business, coming up with innovative ideas to solve customer problems and translating customer needs into a product strategy, vision, roadmap and backlog.

As a Product Manager, you will demonstrate a solid knowledge of both the technology and the business and the customer needs. You will bring external insight, analysing market and competitive conditions to influence a product vision that differentiates and delivers outstanding value based on customer demands. It will be essential to have experience in the current SAP technologies we run and ideally you will have experience in the future technologies we intend to invest in (SAP S4 Hana etc.) 

Responsibilities: 

• Management of product(s) with a high level of autonomy that leads to the delivery of significant measurable value
• Creation and clear communication of the strategic vision of the product with defined OKRs
• Collaborate closely with partners aligning business, product and technical priorities to set the product direction, promote the product roadmap and continually improve.
• Driving a seamless user experience throughout the product design
• Own the interactions of the product with other product teams, collaborating on cross-cutting objectives.
• Manage the product’s backlog and contribute to any overall prioritisation, including cross-product
• Create business cases or lean canvas as required that include market analysis, costs and business/user benefit.
• Ensures Product measures of success are defined, supervised and communicated
• Apply lean practices while delivering value through iterative development i.e. Minimum Viable Product (MVP)
• Support the teams to successfully adopt DevOps, and collaborating with Engineering and Technical Programme Management to ensure operational success
• Drive launch readiness collaborating closely with all parties to ensure adoption
• Pro-actively identifies and applies insight from market research, data analytics, industry, partners and competitor analysis to ensure M&S continues to provide best in class capabilities
• Uses and generates high value from product optimisation, experimentation techniques and user science tools to validate ideas and influence the products.
• Able to operate as a mentor and coach to Associate Product Managers and actively contributes to the wider Product culture acting as a Product evangelist to build awareness and understanding

• Experience in product management, demonstrating successful development and delivery of product strategies - roadmaps through to product launch and optimisation.
• Must have solid understanding of at least two of the following technologies in SAP ECC6.0: FICO, Purchasing, Pricing, Sales & Stock. SAP SRM, EWM, CAR & BW
• Extensive knowledge of SAP technologies and understanding Architecture, Delivery and Operations.
• Understanding SAP and other ERP Integration
• Experience of running successful Product delivery in an Agile software environment to deliver customer-led outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to engage with cross functional teams in a constructive and collaborative relationship
• Understanding of Product Health and performance through key SLA’s e.g., Platform Availability, Usage Metrics, Performance Metrics and Scale metrics
• Product management techniques and methods, such as facilitating discovery and ideation workshops
• Strong problem solving skills, using sound judgement to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed, narrative.
• Solid understanding in the use of tools & techniques for backlog prioritisation and basic knowledge and experience of agile software development
• Financial foresight to demonstrate the products value.
• Comfortable working with colleagues up to ‘Head of’ level as part of day to day responsibilities

Desirable

• Knowledge and experience at implementing modern SAP technologies including SAP S4 HANA, BW4, SAC, PAPM and Ariba
• Previous experience working in a Retail environment.
• Knowledge of cloud technologies, especially SAP and ideally Azure
• Experience of working with internal teams, managed service providers, and external software providers
• Good knowledge of Agile Product Management tools e.g. Jira & Jira Align
• Experience of transitioning and operating in a full Devops environment
• Bachelor’s degree

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 3,500 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.

Why join us

•  Career coaching, mentoring and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to re-skill and up-skill into new areas, develop non-linear career paths and build a skillset within your field
• Annual leave and work-place pension