Your Key Responsibilities

• Provide functional leadership and direction to the Payroll/Time 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 Payroll/Time Solutions roadmap, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and HR strategy.
• Facilitate the delivery of international IT projects for Payroll and Time Management Solutions, guiding the team to ensure successful execution.
• Prioritize and manage the product backlog, maintaining an adequate balance between projects, operations, and capacities.
• Drive the adoption and integration of new payroll and time management solution features, for instance SAP SuccessFactors Compensation and Variable Pay, across the organization.
• Oversee the end-to-end delivery of payroll and time management solutions, ensuring projects are completed on time, within scope, and within budget while safeguarding stable system operations.
• Act as a point of contact for stakeholders, facilitating discussions and decisions regarding product features, timelines, priorities, expectations, and the product vision.
• Collaborate with other HR IT Teams to ensure integrative solutions, especially where interdependencies affect multiple teams/solutions.
• Work closely with the leadership team consisting of the People & Competence manager (PCM), the Scrum Master (SCM), and the Product Group Owner HR IT Solutions.

Your Qualifications

• 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 (PT/PY) and SAP SuccessFactors Compensation and Variable Pay
• Profound knowledge of the German Payroll and German time management legislations are beneficial.
• 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.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, in English; German beneficial.
• Capability to read and understand German Law texts and work council agreements which are only available in German language.