Product Leader - S2P Platform
First seen by Alion on Oct 16, 2026.
About the Role:
We are looking for a 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.
- Balance customer requirements with scalable, configurable product capabilities.
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.
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.
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.
- Identify where AI creates measurable procurement value (savings, cycle time, compliance), not just AI features.
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.
- Drive prioritization across features, platform improvements, technical debt and customer commitments.
- Ensure predictable, outcome-driven delivery.
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.
- Build a product that is easy to adopt, use and demonstrate.
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 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.
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.
Skills
IT Product Management, IT Product Strategy, AI Transformation, Agentic AI, Artificial Intelligence, Product Roadmap