Responsibilities

Strategic Responsibilities

• Development and implementation of the digitalization strategy for the Innovate to Sell & Order to Pay domain, aligned with the group-wide digital strategy and Hub priorities.
• Leadership and development of Product Owners within the domain — setting standards, coaching for excellence, and ensuring consistent product management practices across the team.
• Strategic alignment of all digital products in the domain with business objectives, ensuring each product contributes to the overall digital portfolio value.
• Ownership of the domain product portfolio across the entire lifecycle — from ideation and business case through development to continuous optimization and sunset.
• Development of an integrated product roadmap for the domain, considering departmental goals, Hub strategy, and the group-wide digital strategy.
• Identification and evaluation of new digital and AI business opportunities within the Innovate to Sell & Order to Pay value streams.
• Active portfolio management regarding usage behavior, KPIs, business impact, and strategic fit — in close collaboration with Performance & Portfolio Management (P1).
• Definition and management of UX standards across the domain to ensure a consistent, high-quality user experience.

Operational Responsibilities

• Direct leadership and coaching of Product Owners — ensuring consistent quality in backlog management, stakeholder engagement, roadmapping, and delivery across the team.
• Ensuring the quality of all digital products in the domain in terms of availability, performance, data quality, and user experience.
• Oversight of product and feature backlogs across the domain — supporting Product Owners in prioritization based on roadmap, strategy, and business cases.
• Evaluation and prioritization of cross-product requirements and dependencies within the domain.
• Leading and overseeing projects for the introduction and further development of digital products within the Innovate to Sell & Order to Pay value streams.
• Development of user experience paths for digital products, in collaboration with UX experts, ensuring the domain's UX standards are applied consistently.
• Creating business cases and specification sheets for new digital products together with Digital Champions and in alignment with P1 for validation.
• Coordination and collaboration with process owners and business functions to optimally integrate digital products into existing commercial business processes (e.g., CRM, CPQ, PLM, ERP, billing).
• Planning, implementation, and communication of releases together with relevant business functions and the Implementation Team (P4).
• Close collaboration with the Data Team (P2) to define data requirements, utilize Data Products, and ensure data quality within all domain products.
• Collaboration with Digital Champions to gather domain-specific requirements from the Innovate to Sell & Order to Pay process landscape and ensure adoption.
• Close alignment and collaboration with all Hub teams and interfaces: The Head of P3 coordinates closely with Performance & Portfolio Management (P1) for portfolio governance, roadmap consolidation, KPI reporting, and budget controlling. P1 tracks the delivery performance and value realization of P3's products; P3 provides the product data, project status, and usage insights that feed into P1's governance framework. The Head of P3 works with the Implementation Team (P4) to ensure structured rollout, change communication, and end-user enablement for all products in the domain. Product Owners provide the subject-matter content and product expertise; P4 manages the rollout methodology and change process.

Profile Requirements

Professional Requirements

• University degree in business informatics, engineering, business administration, or comparable qualification.
• Several years of experience in product management or as a senior Product Owner in software / digitalization projects, including leadership of Product Owners or product teams.
• Solid understanding of commercial business processes across the Innovate to Sell & Order to Pay value chain (e.g., sales processes, product configuration, order management, CRM/CPQ/ERP systems).
• Proven experience with agile product management, backlog prioritization, roadmapping, and delivery at scale.
• Good understanding of digital platforms, APIs, CRM/PLM/ERP systems, and their integration.
• Experience in leading, coaching, and developing product management professionals.
• Understanding of AI/ML use cases in commercial contexts (e.g., demand forecasting, price optimization, customer analytics).
• Excellent German and English language skills.

Personal Requirements

• Entrepreneurial thinking — ability to translate strategy into operational models and lead a team to deliver.
• Leadership through expertise and inspiration — coaching Product Owners to excellence while maintaining strategic oversight.
• Analytical and solution-oriented — ability to navigate complex interdependencies across the commercial process chain and find pragmatic solutions.
• Hands-on mentality — willingness to step into Product Owner responsibilities when needed, especially during team buildup.
• Strong communication skills — ability to convey technical and business topics clearly to stakeholders at all levels, including in international and multicultural settings.
• Customer and user empathy — deep understanding of what makes digital products valuable in a commercial B2B context.
• Passion for innovation — openness to new technologies, AI capabilities, and ways of working.
• Results-driven and accountable — taking ownership of the domain's product portfolio outcomes.