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Demonstrate customer obsession through regular customer interaction to capture business pain points.

Become a subject matter expert in the business processes to identify opportunities for automation and integration on SAP to accelerate business objectives.

Create a vision, value proposition, and product roadmap for improvements and enhancements

Partner with business and engineering stakeholder to define objectives and key results.

Define, prioritize, and drive functional scenarios and features.

Regularly groom business requirements, manage a product backlog, and break requirements down into features with defined acceptance criteria.

Conduct product demonstrations during sprints for early feedback

Partner with software engineers and users to create business acceptance test cases

Make data-driven decisions through capturing business impact and deliver the right outcomes to business.

Ensure required functionality is delivered according to Microsoft standards, aligned with portfolio roadmaps.

Support Domain Architects in the definition of solution and technology roadmaps and industry standards

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities:

Demonstrate customer obsession through regular customer interaction to capture business pain points.

Become a subject matter expert in the business processes to identify opportunities for automation and integration on SAP to accelerate business objectives.

Create a vision, value proposition, and product roadmap for improvements and enhancements

Partner with business and engineering stakeholder to define objectives and key results.

Define, prioritize, and drive functional scenarios and features.

Regularly groom business requirements, manage a product backlog, and break requirements down into features with defined acceptance criteria.

Conduct product demonstrations during sprints for early feedback

Partner with software engineers and users to create business acceptance test cases

Make data-driven decisions through capturing business impact and deliver the right outcomes to business.

Ensure required functionality is delivered according to Microsoft standards, aligned with portfolio roadmaps.

Support Domain Architects in the definition of solution and technology roadmaps and industry standards.

The ideal candidate will have experience in a team environment, experience developing and designing enterprise scale services and platforms, technical depth in cloud platforms, agile development practices. In addition, this position requires an individual who can demonstrate the ability to ensure highly resilient and scalable service designs through partnership with other members of the service team.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

8+ Years of experience as an SAP Program Manager, Product Manager, Functional Analyst, or Solution architect with SAP S/4 Hana Technical expertise

Business process and functional knowledge in SAP Order to Cash, Finance, HR, BI, MDG or Professional Services

Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings:

Microsoft Cloud Background Check: This position will be required to pass the Microsoft Cloud background check upon hire/transfer and every two years thereafter.

Citizenship Verification: This position requires verification of US Citizenship to meet federal government security requirements.

Preferred, not required:

Professional Training and Certification: PMP.

Experience in working on large scale global enterprise implementations with hands on experience in customization/configuration of SAP solutions.

Proven success and experience in collaborating across engineering, business, and operational teams, up to and including working with Partner/GM level stakeholders.

Strong problem solving, troubleshooting skills along with sound judgement and decision-making skills.

Excellent communication skills and desire to collaborate in a multi-disciplinary environment

Experience working with geographically diverse groups.

Ability to learn and grasp concepts quickly in a fast-paced environment.

A strong understanding of Software life cycle methodology and Information’s systems development and support.

Ability to work independently and ramp-up to new areas quickly

A proven track record of successfully implementing software or web development projects using Agile methodologies

Sound judgment, decision-making skills, and ability to work under continual deadline pressure

Demonstrable passion for continuous applied learning & development

Strong creative thinking and problem-solving skills with the ability to deal with ambiguity without stalling progress

Metrics and data focused and passion for solving customer problems

Ability to build trusted partnerships and manage stakeholder expectations

Microsoft is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.  We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request via the Accommodation request form.