Product Owner

• Provide functional leadership and direction to the HCM Core Solutions team, fostering a collaborative and high-performing environment.
• Mentor and support team members in their professional development and career growth
• Lead the development and management of the HCM Core Solutions roadmap, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and HR strategy
• Lead international IT projects for HCM Core Solutions, e.g. SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
• Prioritize and manage the product backlog, keeping an adequate balance between projects, operations, and capacities
• Drive the adoption and integration of new HCM Core solution features across the organization and support technical integration with Vitesco (Merger Schaeffler/Vitesco)
• Oversee the end-to-end delivery of HCM Core solutions, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget while safeguarding a stable system operation
• Act as a point of contact for stakeholders, facilitating discussions and decisions regarding product features, timelines, priorities and expectations as well as product vision
• Collaborate with the other HR IT Teams to ensure integrative solutions especially were demands effect multiple teams/solutions
• Works closely with the leadership team consisting of the People & Competence manager (PCM), the Scrum Master (SCM) and the overarching Product Owner HR IT Solutions

To strengthen this team, we are immediately seeking a committed and experienced leader as a Product Owner (m/f/d) for our HCM Core Solutions., * Completed studies in Business Informatics, Computer Science, Business Administration, or a comparable qualification.

• Several years of team leader experience and strong leadership skills incl. motivation, coaching, managing complex situation, team transformation.
• Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role, specifically within HR IT.
• Several years of experience in SAP HCM (PA/OM) and SAP SuccessFactors Employee Central
• Several years of experience in implementation of digitization projects.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and tools, such as Scrum, Kanban, JIRA.
• Good understanding of enterprise integration, and the specific challenges related to interacting with complex ERP environments is very beneficial.
• Fluent in English, basic German skills are beneficial.

Schaeffler is a dynamic global technology company and its success has been a result of its entrepreneurial spirit and long history of private ownership. Does that sound interesting to you? As a partner to all of the major automobile manufacturers, as well as key players in the aerospace and industrial sectors, we offer you many development opportunities., As a global company with employees around the world, it is important to us that we treat each other with respect and value all ideas and perspectives. By appreciating our differences, we inspire creativity and drive innovation. In this way, we contribute to sustainable value creation for our stakeholders and society as a whole. Together, we advance how the world moves.