Product Manager for SAP Real Estate / OpenText (m/f/d)*

Successful candidates must be prepared to relocate to the specified job location in the job posting and will be employed directly under the hiring entity’s contractual terms.

This role will be part of the Investment & Asset Management Tower for Group Technology (IT1.9), responsible for ensuring the availability, reliability, and maintenance of all investment and asset management systems, applications, and platforms. The Tower manages the seamless transition of new systems or projects to steady-state operations and takes ownership of key business relationships, providing accurate metrics on uptime, issues, and resolutions.

Munich Re is a global market leader in re-insurance, global specialty insuranceand digital solutions.  New technologies are disrupting the insurance value chain. Our innovative minds in IT spearhead the transformation and make change happen. We support clients with a comprehensive range of insurance and risk management products. Our goal is to become even more digital through the expertise of our IT & Tech specialists, and by leveraging data and insights to support innovation and client service. We are therefore making targeted IT investments and helping our insurance clients and partners to tackle problems in the modern digital world with innovative and forward-looking solutions.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated IT Product Manager for core asset and investment management applications in the Alternative Assets area. Your main focus will be on customizing and operating the archiving and document management functionalities within SAP Real Estate and OpenText, while effectively utilizing appropriate underlying MR IT support structures.

Your job

• Collaborating closely with the IT Product Managers and Business Product Owner in a shared responsibilities model
• Managing business requirements and consulting business departments to fulfill business strategy, using market and technical innovation knowledge
• Customizing and maintaining the archive functionality inclusive OpenText SAP DocuLink, the OpenText DesktopLink and related Workflows within the SAP S/4HanaReal Estate  
• Maintaining the Invoice Workflow functionality within the Insider smartFix
• Planning and aligning product roadmaps with business departments based on target architecture, including necessary technical and security refactoring
• Initiating projects and conducting implementation of change requests, planning and executing product releases, conducting sign-off procedures
• Taking responsibility for the product costs and for management of external staff (including procurement and provider management)
• Engaging the respective MR standard ITSM processes (Incident, Problem, Change) for the services under your responsibility and usage of Service Now
• Conducting SLA meetings with SLA reporting and consistent monitoring and analysis of the service quality and identifying potential areas for optimization
• Escalating critical issues to IT-Management

Your profile

• University degree, preferably in engineering / IT or similar qualification
• Expert level in SAP S/4Hana, SAP ArchiveLink, OpenText SAP DocuLink, OpenText DesktopLink
• Expert level in SAP Workflow and Insider smartFix
• Basis level in SAP S/4Hana with focus on the SAP modules FI, FI-AA, RE-FX and MM
• Advanced business knowledge of asset and investment management processes, especially in Real Estate and/or Alternative Assets
• Experience with ITIL processes to collaborate with experts in infrastructure, operations, IT development and technical architecture
• Strong customer orientation and communication skills
• Familiarity with analytical and conceptual design of complex application operation landscapes and IT architectures
• Assertive, self-organized and proactive attitude
• Goal-oriented and readiness to learn
• Target-orientation and willingness to learn
• Excellent planning, organizational and negotiation skills
• Fluent in German and Business English

Application Instructions

If applicable, please also submit reference letters from any previous employers or certificates from any other qualifications you may have. We recommend writing a cover letter to tell us more about why the position and Munich Re is of interest to you.

About us

As the world's leading reinsurance company with more than 11,000 employees at over 50 locations, Munich Re introduces a paradigm shift in the way you think about insurance. By turning uncertainty into a manageable risk, we enable fundamental change. Join us working on topics today that will concern society tomorrow, whether that be climate change, major construction projects, medical risk assessment or even space travel. Together we embrace a culture where multiskilled teams dare to think big. We create the new and the different for our clients and cultivate innovation. Sounds like you? Push boundaries with us and be part of Munich Re. Our employees are our greatest strength. That’s why we offer them a wide range of benefits. You can find some examples below. For more insights about working at Munich Re please click here.

Unlock your potential

• Professional Training & Certification: We accompany you in building up your professional profile by supporting with customized professional training and certification opportunities.
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: We embrace the power of differences and are convinced that diversity fosters innovation and resilience and enables us to act braver and better.
• Continuous Learning: We believe that continuous learning is a key differentiator and critical for building new skills and accelerating growth.
• Career Mobility: We actively support career mobility, and our strong global and regional presence offers a wealth of career growth opportunities for you.

Rewards & Recognition

• Competitive salary: appropriate compensation for your high level of commitment.
• Retirement provision: state of the art in-house pension solutions.
• Work-life balance: promoting the compatibility of family and work in addition to overall work-life balance.
• Health management: focus on your physical and mental health far beyond legal requirements.
• Hybrid working: living the best of both worlds – we offer you a very flexible approach as well as the opportunity to work from abroad on an occasional basis.

* Munich Re not only stands for fairness with regard to its clients; it is also an equal opportunities employer. Severely disabled candidates will also be prioritized, if equally qualified.