Company Description

QAD is a leading provider of adaptive, cloud-based enterprise software and services for global manufacturing companies. At QAD, we help customers transform and innovate through modern cloud platforms, data-driven insights, and AI-enabled solutions. Our Engineering organization plays a critical role in delivering resilient, scalable, and high-quality platforms that power customer success worldwide.

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 explicit 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 simpl

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