Job Description

QAD is looking for a senior product leader to own and advance our Procure-to-Pay and Supplier Relationship Management product strategy for manufacturers.

This role will lead the end-to-end product vision for supplier-facing workflows across sourcing, supplier onboarding, supplier collaboration, purchase order execution, supplier risk, procurement automation, invoice collaboration, and AI-powered decisioning. The objective is to build a modern, workflow-led procurement suite that helps manufacturers improve supply continuity, reduce supplier risk, control material costs, and automate manual procurement work.

This is not a traditional module-owner role. We are looking for a product leader who can think across the full manufacturing procurement workflow, connect SRM with ERP execution, and define how AI agents can help procurement teams move from reactive follow-up to proactive supplier and supply-chain decisioning.

The role will work closely with engineering, AI, platform, sales, services, customer success, and executive leadership to shape the roadmap, commercial packaging, customer adoption, and long-term product differentiation.

Key Responsibilities

Own the Procure-to-Pay and Supplier Intelligence Product Strategy

- Define the product vision and roadmap for QAD’s Procure-to-Pay, SRM, supplier collaboration, and supplier intelligence capabilities.

- Build a clear product strategy that connects SRM, sourcing, supplier management, PO collaboration, invoice workflows, ERP execution, and AI agents.

- Identify the highest-value manufacturing procurement use cases, including supplier delay handling, supplier risk management, sourcing optimization, purchase order change management, and supplier performance improvement.

- Translate customer pain points into differentiated product capabilities and commercially compelling offerings.

- Partner with GTM teams to position SRM and Procure-to-Pay as a strategic workflow suite for manufacturers.

Lead End-to-End Workflow Product Management





- Own the complete Source/Procure-to-Pay workflow from supplier discovery and onboarding through sourcing, PO execution, supplier collaboration, receiving, invoice matching, and supplier performance.

- Work across ERP, SRM, procurement, supply chain, quality, finance, and AI teams to ensure the workflow is connected end to end.

- Identify where procurement users experience friction, manual work, poor visibility, or delayed decisions, and turn those into roadmap priorities.

- Create clear product requirements, workflow maps, customer journeys, and measurable business outcomes.

- Drive alignment between workflow needs, platform capabilities, integrations, data model, and user experience.

Build AI Agent and Decision Service Capabilities

- Define how AI agents should support procurement users across sourcing, supplier collaboration, exception handling, risk monitoring, and decision support.

- Identify agent use cases that can reduce manual follow-up, improve supplier responsiveness, recommend alternatives, and accelerate procurement decisions.

- Partner with AI and data teams to define the context, permissions, guardrails, workflows, and approval paths required for safe agent execution.

- Build capabilities that move from insight to recommendation to governed action.

- Help define procurement-related Decision Services, starting with high-value use cases such as supplier delay handling and supplier risk response.

Drive Customer and Market Understanding

- Spend significant time with manufacturing customers, procurement leaders, supply chain leaders, finance leaders, and suppliers to understand real-world workflows.

- Develop a solid point of view on direct materials procurement, supplier collaboration,



supplier quality, risk, and cost management.

- Understand competitive offerings across SRM, source-to-pay, direct procurement, supplier collaboration, and procurement orchestration.

- Use customer feedback, win/loss insights, product analytics, and market research to shape roadmap priorities.

- Partner with sales and customer success to improve adoption, attach, retention, and expansion.

Partner Across the Business

- Work with engineering to deliver scalable, reliable, and configurable product capabilities.

- Work with platform and integration teams to ensure procurement workflows connect cleanly with ERP, finance, supplier, and third-party systems.

- Work with sales and marketing to create clear messaging, packaging, demos, and value stories.

- Work with services and customer success to simplify implementation and accelerate customer outcomes.

- Provide executive-level visibility into roadmap, adoption, risks, and investment priorities.

What Success Looks Like

In the first 6 months, success will include:

- Explicit product strategy and roadmap for Procure-to-Pay, SRM, supplier collaboration, and AI agents.

- Prioritized set of high-value procurement workflows and Decision Services.

- Strong alignment across product, engineering, AI, sales, services, and customer success.

- Customer-validated use cases for supplier delay handling, supplier risk, sourcing, and PO collaboration.

- Clear commercial positioning for SRM and Procure-to-Pay in manufacturing accounts.

In the first 12 months, success will include:

- Delivery of meaningful workflow improvements that reduce manual procurement effort and improve supplier visibility.

- Initial AI agent capabilities embedded into procurement workflows.

- Increased SRM attach and adoption across targeted customer segments.

- Stronger product differentiation for QAD in direct materials and manufacturing procurement.

- A repeatable roadmap and operating model for workflow-led product management.

📌 Director Product Management - Source-to-Pay (Pune)
🏢 QAD
📍 Pune