Senior SAP SuccessFactors Product Owner | HR Tech Leader

Fischer Connectors SA; Porto; On-site; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Fischer Connectors, Amarante plant near Oporto, Portugal, seeks a senior SAP SuccessFactors Product Owner to own the platform, drive improvements, and govern integrations across Employee Central, Employee Central Payroll and time management. You will partner with HR, IT and external partners, shaping roadmaps and ensuring operational readiness across countries.

The role requires strong functional and technical leadership, hands-on configuration, and a focus on data integrity, governance and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, Human Resources Management, Economics or a related discipline. A master’s degree is an advantage.
• 5–6 years of experience with Human Resources or payroll systems, including at least 4 years with SAP SuccessFactors.
• Experience across the SAP SuccessFactors lifecycle, including implementation, post-go-live operations and continuous improvement.
• Strong hands-on functional and technical experience with Employee Central and Employee Central Payroll, including configuration, employee master data, payroll controls, replication and issue analysis.
• Strong understanding of SAP integration architecture, including SAP BTP, Integration Suite, SuccessFactors APIs, Employee Central Payroll replication and file-based interfaces.
• Experience with SAP SuccessFactors time solutions or third-party time management solutions integrated with payroll.
• Experience supporting payroll or Human Resources systems across multiple countries and working with local compliance requirements.
• Experience managing application roadmaps, priorities, releases, change governance and service improvement.
• Professional proficiency in English. French is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the SAP SuccessFactors roadmap, backlog, service model and improvement priorities in alignment with HR strategy.
• Ensure governance of incidents, problems, changes, testing, releases, risks and improvement opportunities.
• Manage adoption of SAP SuccessFactors releases with business validation and readiness.
• Maintain complete documentation and internal ownership of the application.
• Manage external support and consulting partners while strengthening internal ownership.
• Provide hands-on functional and technical leadership across Employee Central, Employee Central Payroll and integrated time management processes.
• Assess configuration and process design, identify improvement opportunities and validate solutions before implementation.
• Ensure end-to-end integrity of employee, payroll and time data including data replication and integration.
• Maintain oversight of integration landscape across SAP SF, time management, payroll, finance and external services.
• Lead analysis and resolution of complex functional, data and integration issues across APIs, middleware, replication, mappings and authorisations.
• Act as the primary application partner for HR ensuring reliable payroll operations and regulatory compliance.
• Protect payroll accuracy and continuity by ensuring system readiness for payroll processing.
• Support local regulatory and data protection requirements with HR, Legal and stakeholders.
• Develop internal capability through knowledge transfer and key-user enablement.
• Drive continuous improvement of SAP SuccessFactors processes, configurations, integrations and user experience.
• Define and monitor service measures covering payroll reliability, data quality, change effectiveness and user adoption.
• Support future country rollouts through localisation readiness and implementation approaches.
• Contribute to SAP SuccessFactors evolution as a strategic enabler of HR digital transformation.

Skills

Product ownership

Leadership

English proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Regulatory/compliance awareness

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems or related

Master's degree (advantage)

Tools

SAP SuccessFactors

SAP BTP

Integration Suite

Job description

Fischer Connectors, Amarante plant near Oporto, Portugal, seeks a senior SAP SuccessFactors Product Owner to own the platform, drive improvements, and govern integrations across Employee Central, Employee Central Payroll and time management. You will partner with HR, IT and external partners, shaping roadmaps and ensuring operational readiness across countries.

The role requires strong functional and technical leadership, hands-on configuration, and a focus on data integrity, governance and