Role & responsibilities

Director/Associate Director Sourcing/Product/Consulting

- Location: Chennai
- Level: D1/D2
- Salary – Max can go up to 70-75 LPA
- Experience: 10–20 years
- Profile in one line: Procurement/Sourcing domain expertise + Procurement consulting + B2B Enterprise SaaS Product Leadership + AI/Agentic + Strong Execution

About the Role We are looking for a Director/Associate Director-level Product leader to own the vision, strategy and execution of our Enterprise Source-to-Pay (S2P) SaaS platform. This is a high-impact role for someone who has lived the sourcing and procurement problem first-hand, advised enterprises on it as a consultant, and then built products to solve it.

You will work closely with Leadership, Engineering, Design, Sales, Customers and Implementation teams to build a scalable, differentiated procurement platform with AI and Agentic capabilities, taking the S2P platform from 01 and 110.

What You Will Own

1. Product Strategy & Vision

- Define and own the product vision and multi-year strategy for the S2P platform.
- Build and manage the annual and quarterly product roadmap.
- Identify market opportunities and define differentiation against Tier 1 S2P platforms.
- Drive product-market fit, customer adoption and expansion.
- Balance customer requirements with scalable, configurable product capabilities.

2. Sourcing Domain Leadership

- Be the in-house authority on strategic sourcing: category strategy, spend cube analysis, RFx (RFI/RFP/RFQ), e-auctions, bid analysis, negotiation and award, TCO and savings tracking.
- Translate real-world sourcing and category management practices into product workflows.
- Bring a consultant’s structured problem-solving to customer engagements and product design.

3. Product Discovery & Customer

- Work directly with enterprise customers, CPOs, procurement leaders and business stakeholders.
- Identify real customer problems and convert them into product opportunities.
- Lead discovery, validation and prioritization.
- Build a strong feedback loop between customers, Product, Engineering and GTM.
- Support pre-sales, solution design and key customer conversations.

4. Source-to-Pay Product Own the evolution of the complete journey:





Demand Requisition Sourcing Supplier Management Contracts PO Supplier Collaboration GRN Invoice Spend Analytics

5. AI & Agentic Product

- Define and execute the AI/Agentic roadmap for procurement, for example Procurement Copilot, Supplier Scout, Sourcing Agent, Contract Intelligence, Spend Intelligence, Demand Intake Agent, and Invoice/PO Exception Agent.
- Identify where AI creates measurable procurement value (savings, cycle time, compliance), not just AI features.

6. Product Execution

- Translate strategy into explicit requirements and roadmaps.
- Partner with Engineering, UX and QA to deliver high-quality releases.
- Establish a strong Discovery PRD Development QA Release process.
- Drive prioritization across features, platform improvements, technical debt and customer commitments.
- Ensure predictable, outcome-driven delivery.

7. Enterprise Platform & Integrations

- Drive a scalable enterprise architecture across SAP ECC / S/4HANA, SAP Ariba, SAP CPI / CIG, other ERP and Finance systems, APIs and third-party platforms.

8. UX & Product Experience

- Own the product experience with the Design team.
- Simplify complex enterprise procurement workflows.
- Ensure consistency across modules, navigation and user journeys.
- Build a product that is easy to adopt, use and demonstrate.

9. Product Organization

- Build, mentor and grow a high-performing Product team.
- Establish product management processes, standards and operating cadence.
- Coach Product Managers on discovery, prioritization, PRDs and execution.
- Create clear ownership across product areas.

Must Have

- 10–20 years of total experience, with at least 5 years in Product Management / Product Leadership.
- Deep Sourcing / Procurement domain expertise (strategic sourcing, category management, RFx, e-auctions, supplier management).
- Consulting experience in procurement or supply chain (Big 4 / strategy / procurement advisory) with exposure to enterprise clients.




- Hands-on Product Lead / Product Owner experience on an S2P or procurement SaaS platform.
- Significant experience building B2B / Enterprise SaaS products; experience taking products 01 and/or 110.
- Proven ownership of product strategy and roadmap.
- Experience working with large enterprise customers and complex enterprise workflows.
- Strong customer discovery and product-market-fit mindset.
- Proven collaboration with Engineering, UX, Sales and Customers.
- Experience managing and mentoring Product Managers.
- Working understanding of GenAI / Agentic AI and its application to enterprise workflows.
- Good understanding of APIs, cloud, databases and enterprise integrations.

Good to Have

- Experience with Contract Lifecycle Management, Spend Management, P2P, or Supplier Risk/Performance.
- Exposure to ERP / Enterprise Applications (SAP ECC, S/4HANA, Ariba, Oracle) and Finance / Supply Chain SaaS.
- Hands-on experience with a Tier 1 S2P platform.
- Experience in pre-sales, solutioning or implementation of procurement technology.
- Technology or engineering background.
- Prior experience in a startup or scale-up environment.
- Published thought leadership in procurement or procurement tech.

Education

- Required: Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / Technology (B.E. / B.Tech) or equivalent.
- Strongly preferred: MBA / PGDM from a Tier 1 institute (IIMs, ISB, XLRI, SPJIMR, MDI or equivalent), ideally with Operations, Supply Chain or Strategy specialization.
- Good-to-have certifications: CIPS, CPSM / CSCP (ISM/APICS), Lean Six Sigma, CSPO / Pragmatic Product Management, or Cloud/AI certifications.

Sourcing Preference (Target Talent Pools) Preference will be given to candidates from competitive and adjacent organizations. The list below is indicative, not exhaustive.

Pool

Target companies

Direct S2P / procurement SaaS competitors

SAP Ariba, Coupa, GEP, Zycus, Jaggaer, Ivalua, Basware, Workday (Scout RFP), Oracle Procurement, Icertis, Tradeshift, Zip, Keelvar, Fairmarkit

Procurement consulting / advisory

Deloitte, EY, PwC, KPMG, Accenture, Kearney, Beroe, Efficio, Genpact, Capgemini, ZS

Enterprise / ERP software

SAP, Oracle, Infor, Microsoft Dynamics

Preferred candidate profile

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