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Global Product Owner (all genders) SAP SuccessFactors & EC

Job Details

Contract Type:
Unlimited / Full-Time
Country / City:
Germany / Hamburg
Company:
Beiersdorf AG
Job Function:
Human Resources

Your Tasks

  • Product Strategy & Lifecycle Management: Define and execute a product vision and roadmap of SAP SuccessFactors & Employee Central aligned with HR’s digital transformation goals. Oversee the application lifecycle, ensuring robust governance, compliance, and alignment with company standards and regulations.
  • User-Centric Product Enhancements: Drive iterative product optimization using analytics, user feedback, and emerging technologies. Prioritize backlog items, including enhancements and bug fixes, to deliver maximum business value and user satisfaction.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration & Requirement Gathering: Act as a link between HR, IT, and other departments to gather requirements, align priorities, and ensure seamless integration with other HR systems and processes.
  • Quality Assurance, Testing, & Compliance: Lead testing and validation efforts to ensure products meet quality standards. Manage system architecture reviews, and ensure adherence to data protection, compliance, and audit requirements. Follow appropriate documentation and governance based on the project delivery mathodology followed by the organisation.
  • Change Management & Performance Monitoring: Facilitate change management with effective communication, support and Training to end users, HR, managers and employees. Track KPIs, monitor product performance, and implement improvements to ensure effective, innovative HR digital tools.

Your Profile

  • University degree in Business, Information Technology, or a related field.
  • Extensive experience with SAP SuccessFactors (particularly Employee Central and system integrations); familiarity with SAP HCM, ServiceNow, Aconso, or similar HR systems is a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of IT security, data privacy, product management principles, and agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum or SAFe).
  • Proven ability to manage diverse international and cross-functional stakeholders, with excellent communication and expectation management skills tailored to different audiences and organizational levels.
  • Demonstrates independence, accountability, and ownership of product goals, with an analytical mindset, problem-solving skills, and attention to detail.
  • Fluent in English and proficient in German.

Additional information

We embrace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and are committed to providing equitable opportunities to all of our applicants – regardless of race, gender, age, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation & gender identity, disability, cultural, ethnic or national origins. We would therefore kindly ask you to include only information and data in your documents which are relevant for the assessment of your application (e.g. curriculum vitae with relevant references and certificates) and encourage you to upload your CV without a picture.

 

We support flexible working, including job-sharing. Though our ambitions are serious, the team is energetic and inclusive and will offer you a great place to thrive. We believe there is immense power in diversity and aim to recruit and nurture talent who think and act differently.

 

At Beiersdorf, we embrace Diversity and aim to provide equal opportunities to all of our applicants – regardless of e.g. gender, sexual identity, nationality, ethnicity, religion or ideology, disability or age. We would therefore kindly ask you to include only information and data in your documents which are relevant for the assessment of your application (e.g. curriculum vitae with relevant references and certificates). For instance, please feel free to upload your CV without a picture. If you have any questions, please contact our recruiter Christina Czernig every Tuesday between 10:00 and 11:00 am via the telephone number: +49 40 4909 6782.

 

Have a look on our benefits! What we offer – Our Benefits | Beiersdorf

 

Hamburg/Germany is the primary location for this position. Therefore, we recommend residence in Hamburg.

Our company agreement allows basically up to 40% of the working time in a flexible work location in Germany. The exact arrangement of this agreement in the relevant team will be explained in a personal conversation.

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    Get to know: Franz

    Working in HR at Beiersdorf has been a truly rewarding experience. It’s about building connections, fostering growth, and driving positive change within organizations. Every day brings new challenges and opportunities to make a meaningful impact on people’s careers and company culture. It’s a field where empathy, strategy, and innovation come together to create success.