Product Owner – AI Forge Source-to-Contract Solutions (f/m/d)

Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG; Erlangen; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company pension

Shareholder program

Flexible work arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Family-friendly options

Job summary

Siemens Energy seeks a Product Owner for AI Forge Source-to-Contract solutions to own vision, roadmap, backlog, and business value across the lifecycle. You will coordinate with Procurement, Architecture, Data, and Development teams to translate needs into scalable features, prioritise use cases, and drive delivery from scoping to rollout.

You will leverage experience in procurement, S2C processes, and agile methods to deliver measurable value, while collaborating with diverse stakeholders and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Information Systems, Engineering, or a comparable discipline.
• Several years of relevant professional experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, Procurement Digitalization, Product Ownership, or a comparable role.
• Strong understanding of Source-to-Contract processes, including strategic sourcing, supplier discovery and evaluation, RFx, negotiations, contracting, and supplier onboarding.
• Experience translating business and user needs into digital products, including use cases, MVPs, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product roadmaps.
• Strong product and Agile delivery capabilities, including value-based prioritization, backlog management, stakeholder alignment, sprint collaboration, product validation, and continuous improvement.
• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills across business and technology teams; experience with AI/GenAI, procurement technology, SAP, sourcing, supplier management, or contract management solutions is an advantage

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the vision, roadmap, backlog, and priorities for AI Forge Source-to-Contract solutions.
• Identify, assess, and prioritize high-value AI and digital use cases across Source-to-Contract with stakeholders.
• Translate business needs into clearly defined product scope, MVPs, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable success criteria.
• Drive product delivery from scoping through build, validation, rollout, and continuous improvement, making prioritization and scope trade-offs and accepting product outcomes against agreed requirements.
• Represent business needs and users throughout the product lifecycle, using user feedback, adoption, performance, and business outcomes to continuously improve the product and roadmap.
• Collaborate across Procurement, Product, Architecture, Data, Development, Change, Rollout, and Service teams to manage dependencies and ensure scalable solutions aligned with AI Forge and Procurement objectives

Skills

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

AI/GenAI knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Information Systems, Engineering, or a comparable discipline

Tools

SAP

Job description

A Snapshot of Your Day

As Product Owner (f/m/d) for AI Forge Source-to-Contract Solutions, you will own the vision, roadmap, backlog, and business value of AI-powered solutions across the Source-to-Contract value stream. You will identify and prioritize high-value opportunities together with Procurement stakeholders and translate business needs into scalable products and features. Working closely with sourcing, category management, process experts, target users, and AI Forge development teams, you will shape use cases from initial scoping and MVP definition through development, validation, rollout, and continuous improvement. You will make product decisions based on business value, user needs, feasibility, and strategic priorities. Acting as the business owner of the product, you will ensure that AI Forge solutions create measurable value for Procurement and continuously evolve based on user feedback, adoption, and performance

How You’ll Make an Impact

• Own and continuously evolve the vision, roadmap, backlog, and priorities for AI Forge Source-to-Contract solutions, maximizing business value across the product lifecycle


• Identify, assess, and prioritize high-value AI and digital use cases across Source-to-Contract together with sourcing, category management, process experts, target users, and other key stakeholders


• Translate business needs into clearly defined product scope, MVPs, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and measurable success criteria, ensuring readiness for development and delivery


• Drive product delivery from scoping through build, validation, rollout, and continuous improvement, making prioritization and scope trade‑offs and accepting product outcomes against agreed requirements


• Represent business needs and users throughout the product lifecycle, using user feedback, adoption, performance, and business outcomes to continuously improve the product and roadmap


• Collaborate across Procurement, Product, Architecture, Data, Development, Change, Rollout, and Service teams to manage dependencies and ensure scalable solutions aligned with AI Forge and Procurement objectives

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain Management, Procurement, Information Systems, Engineering, or a comparable discipline


• Several years of relevant professional experience in Procurement, Strategic Sourcing, Category Management, Procurement Digitalization, Product Ownership, or a comparable role


• Strong understanding of Source-to-Contract processes, including strategic sourcing, supplier discovery and evaluation, RFx, negotiations, contracting, and supplier onboarding


• Experience translating business and user needs into digital products, including use cases, MVPs, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and product roadmaps


• Strong product and Agile delivery capabilities, including value-based prioritization, backlog management, stakeholder alignment, sprint collaboration, product validation, and continuous improvement


• Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills across business and technology teams; experience with AI/GenAI, procurement technology, SAP, sourcing, supplier management, or contract management solutions is an advantage

About the Team

In our Business Functions we enable our organization to reach their targets by providing best-in class services and solutions in the areas of IT, HR, Finance, Real Estate, Strategy & Technology and more.

Who is Siemens Energy?

At Siemens Energy, we are more than just an energy technology company. With ~100.000 dedicated employees in more than 90 countries, we develop the energy systems of the future, ensuring that the growing energy demand of the global community is met reliably and sustainably. The technologies created in our research departments and factories drive the energy transition and provide the base for one sixth of the world's electricity generation.

Our global team is committed to making sustainable, reliable, and affordable energy a reality by pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We uphold a 150-year legacy of innovation that encourages our search for people who will support our focus on decarbonization, new technologies, and energy transformation.

Our Commitment to Diversity

Lucky for us, we are not all the same. Through diversity we generate power. We run on inclusion and our combined creative energy is fueled by over 130 nationalities. Siemens Energy celebrates character – no matter what ethnic background, gender, age, religion, identity, or disability. We energize society, all of society, and we do not discriminate based on our differences.

Rewards/Benefits

• In addition to an attractive remuneration package in line with the market, you can expect an attractive employer-financed company pension scheme


• We also offer the opportunity to become a Siemens Energy shareholder


• We offer our employees the opportunity to work flexibly and remotely, and our inspiring offices provide space for collaboration and creativity


• The professional and personal development of our employees is very important to us. We provide them with the opportunities to learn and develop in a self-determined way, various attractive programmes and learning materials are available for this purpose


• In relation to the "compatibility of family and work", we have a wide range of offers, e.g. flexible working time models, childcare places at many locations, the possibility of trial part-time work or even a sabbatical

We value equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.

Find out how you can make a difference at Siemens Energy: https://www.siemens-energy.com/employeevideo