Job Description
The Senior Product Manager is a strategic leader and end-to-end owner of a product line within our Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) portfolio. This role is responsible for driving market success, commercial growth, and customer impact, with a strong focus on business value, go-to-market execution, and customer engagement.
As the market and customer expert for your product segment, you will own the end-to-end product lifecycle, from technical feasibility assessment and architectural alignment to commercial execution and customer adoption. Working closely with Engineering, Data Science, UX, and Cloud Architects, you will ensure our solutions are technically scalable, performant, and aligned with evolving SAP ecosystems such as ECC, S/4HANA, and cloud-based analytics.
Our products empower business users in SAP-driven organizations to gain deeper insights and make faster, data-driven decisions, driving continuous business improvement. By embedding cross-functional intelligence, our solutions transform Supply Chain, Human Resources, GRC, and Finance data into actionable insights—eliminating the need for costly and time-consuming BI development projects.
Beyond making data actionable, our solutions ensure that business users can seamlessly access and utilize insights in their daily workflows. With native integrations into Microsoft Excel, users gain real-time reporting capabilities directly from their SAP environment, enhancing efficiency without disrupting familiar processes.
The self-service analytics model further empowers teams by enabling them to identify and resolve key business challenges independently, reducing reliance on IT and allowing technical resources to focus on high-value strategic initiatives.
The ideal candidate will possess a blend of visionary and analytical skills, ensuring every dollar invested in our products drives customer value and measurable ROI, while strategically positioning our solutions for long-term business success.
Key Responsibilities
1. Technical Product Leadership
- Define and drive the technical product roadmap, ensuring alignment with SAP technologies, cloud advancements, and modern enterprise data strategies.
- Lead the development of high-performance, scalable reporting solutions that seamlessly integrate with SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and hybrid cloud environments.
- Provide expertise on SAP data structures, tables, APIs, and reporting frameworks, ensuring product compatibility with SAP-native solutions.
- Drive SAP data extraction, transformation, and visualization strategies, optimizing real-time data accessibility and usability.
- Ensure robust cloud architecture compatibility, leveraging modern multi-tenant, microservices, and data lake architectures for enterprise reporting.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to implement highly optimized query performance, caching strategies, and data pipelines to enhance reporting speed and accuracy.
2. Data Management & Analytics Strategy
- Define data integration strategies, enabling seamless extraction and analysis of SAP data within enterprise BI tools like Power BI, Tableau, and SAP Analytics Cloud.
- Advocate for self-service analytics capabilities, enabling non-technical users to interact with SAP data without heavy IT reliance.
- Identify opportunities for AI/ML-driven analytics, improving anomaly detection, predictive insights, and automated reporting in SAP environments.
- Collaborate with cloud architects to enhance real-time and batch processing pipelines, ensuring efficient SAP data workflows.
3. Business & Go-to-Market Execution
- Translate technical innovations into customer-centric solutions, ensuring business users can derive actionable insights from SAP data.
- Work closely with Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success to ensure effective positioning, pricing, and value articulation of SAP reporting products.
- Engage with SAP power users, IT teams, and C-level stakeholders to drive adoption, resolve technical roadblocks, and ensure smooth deployments.
- Develop detailed product requirements, user stories, and functional specs, ensuring engineering teams build high-impact, customer-focused features.
- Conduct product launch activities, including technical enablement for pre-sales engineers, solution architects, and customer support teams.
4. Market & Customer Engagement
- Act as the technical thought leader for SAP reporting and analytics, participating in industry conferences, webinars, and technical advisory boards.
- Conduct win/loss analysis and customer feedback loops to refine product capabilities and enhance user experience.
- Track SAP ecosystem developments, industry trends, and competitive landscape, ensuring our solutions stay ahead of the curve.
Qualifications
Technical Expertise
- Deep SAP knowledge – Understanding of SAP ECC, S/4HANA, HANA DB, and SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP).
- Strong understanding of SAP data structures, tables, and APIs, ensuring seamless data extraction and analysis.
- Experience in data warehousing, cloud data lakes, and real-time data processing, optimizing SAP data workflows.
- Knowledge of enterprise BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, SAP Analytics Cloud) and how they integrate with SAP environments.
- Familiarity with cloud-native architectures, including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, and their impact on SAP reporting.
- Experience with APIs, ETL pipelines, microservices, and data federation strategies in enterprise data ecosystems.
Product & Business Acumen
- Ability to bridge technical and business needs, ensuring SAP reporting solutions drive measurable business value.
- Experience in SaaS/cloud-based product management, with a focus on data analytics and enterprise reporting.
- Strong ROI-driven mindset, making product investment decisions based on technical feasibility and market demand.
- Proven ability to engage with C-level executives, SAP architects, and IT leaders to drive adoption and business outcomes.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in Product Management within enterprise software, cloud, or data analytics.
- Hands-on expertise in SAP ECC, S/4HANA, and data architecture.
- Strong business and financial acumen, with experience in revenue-driving product strategies.
- Strong technical background in enterprise analytics, cloud computing, and data engineering.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to articulate technical concepts to business stakeholders.
- Comfortable with 20–30% travel (post-restrictions).
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
** At this time insightsoftware is not able to offer sponsorship to candidates who are not eligible to work in the country where the position is located. **
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