Job Description:

Role & Responsibilities:

Director/Associate Director Sourcing/Product/Consulting

Location: Chennai

Level: D1/D2

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 0 - 1 and 1 - 10.

What You Will Own:

- 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.

- Sourcing Domain Leadership: Be the in-house authority on strategic sourcing: category strategy, spend cube analysis, RFx, e-auctions, bid analysis, negotiation and award, TCO and savings tracking. Translate real-world sourcing and category management practices into product workflows.

- 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.

- Source-to-Pay Product: Own the evolution of the complete journey: Demand, Requisition, Sourcing, Supplier Management, Contracts, PO, Supplier Collaboration, GRN, Invoice, Spend Analytics.

- 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.

- Product Execution: Translate strategy into clear requirements and roadmaps. Partner with Engineering, UX and QA to deliver high-quality releases. Establish a strong Discovery, PRD, Development, QA, Release process.

- 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.

- UX & Product Experience: Own the product experience with the Design team. Simplify complex enterprise procurement workflows. Ensure consistency across modules, navigation and user journeys.

- Product Organization: Build, mentor and grow a high-performing Product team. Establish product management processes, standards and operating cadence.

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 0 - 1 and/or 1 - 10.

- 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.

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.