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Description

Senior SAP Product Owner & Transformation Lead with over 10 years of experience in enterprise product management and business transformation. Focus on SAP S/4HANA Public Cloud, SAP Activate (Agile & Fit-to-Standard), SAP Cloud ALM, and the conception of business-critical value streams. Specializes in developing strategic product and transformation roadmaps, prioritizing based on business value rather than output illusions, and the intelligent use of AI to optimize SAP portfolios. Extensive experience in leading cross-functional teams, C-level stakeholder alignment, and the successful orchestration of Fit-to-Standard workshops, release planning, and continuous process uplift cycles.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

German
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Polish
Basic

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Eon
Scrum Master SAP S/4 HANA Transformation
ENERGY AND UTILITIES
April 2025 - November 2025 (7 months)
Introduction, scaling, and enablement of agile working methods within a company-wide S/4 transformation program, including methodological anchoring of Scrum, Kanban, and Lean patterns in hybrid SAP delivery environments.

Moderation and leadership of all agile ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Reviews, Retrospectives, Refinement, Daily Stand-ups) as well as continuous metric reframing towards process KPIs and business value improvement instead of pure output velocity.

Maintenance, transparency, and prioritization facilitation of work items in SAP Solution Manager (Requirements, Test Cases, Defects, Change Records) and ensuring a consistent Definition of Ready/Done for SAP requirements.

Cross-team enablement & dependency management to foster collaboration between SAP delivery, business departments, testing teams, and release streams.

End-to-end orchestration and control of cut-over and go-live activities, including planning, risk tracking, impediment ownership, active coordination of technical and business deploy steps, and ensuring a stable transition rhythm.

Execution and moderation of Fit-to-Standard and process gap workshops (including gap analysis, Fit-to-Standard, scoping, process validation) to harmonize SAP standard processes with real business needs.

Continuous process optimization through inspect/adapt cycles, moderation of decision-making forums, early risk escalation management, and tracking of business-critical integration and deployment dependencies.

Coaching on SAFe, Lean-Agile & Product Mindset to strengthen the role understanding of teams and Product Owners in complex S/4 Cloud transformation environments.
SAP Business Objects SAP S/4HANA SAFe
StarFinanz – IT-Tochter der Sparkassen
Product Owner
BANKING AND INSURANCE
March 2025 - Today (1 year and 3 months)
Hamburg, Germany
• Product vision and strategic introduction of intelligent search (AI) in the Sparkassen app – innovation with end-customer reach in the millions. Management of roadmap, OKRs, and stakeholder alignment (business departments, IT, compliance) in a highly regulated financial environment.
• Driver for data-driven product decisions and prioritization based on business impact and risk.
• Promotion of AI initiatives as part of the digital transformation strategy of the Sparkassen Group.
Product Management product-strategy Product management AI product owner
Mercedes-Benz Tech Motion
Product Owner
AUTOMOBILE
January 2025 - June 2025 (5 months)
Böblingen, Germany
• Responsibility for product strategy and technical implementation in the area of virtual testing.
• Development of simplified variant handling to reduce testing effort.
• Coordination of the integration of new testing strategies with development teams.
• Ensuring communication between technology and management for project transparency.
Product Management Product management Stakeholder Management Product roadmap Agile Project Management