Coupa

Principal Product Manager - 11023

Coupa Bangalore, India Today
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Coupa makes margins multiply through its community-generated AI and industry-leading total spend management platform for businesses large and small. Coupa AI is informed by trillions of dollars of direct and indirect spend data across a global network of 10M+ buyers and suppliers. We empower you with the ability to predict, prescribe, and automate smarter, more profitable business decisions to improve operating margins.

Why join Coupa?

🔹 Pioneering Technology: At Coupa, we're at the forefront of innovation, leveraging the latest technology to empower our customers with greater efficiency and visibility in their spend.
🔹 Collaborative Culture: We value collaboration and teamwork, and our culture is driven by transparency, openness, and a shared commitment to excellence.
🔹 Global Impact: Join a company where your work has a global, measurable impact on our clients, the business, and each other. 

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The Impact of Principal Product Manager to Coupa
 
 
As a Principal Product Manager for Coupa you will be responsible for the overall product strategy as well as its critical synergies with other Coupa products such as Procurement, Risk, Supplier Management and more.
In this role, you will communicate with all the key stakeholders—our customers, partners and the various internal teams within the company— and ensure that our vision is clearly articulated in the market. You will work with PMs, developers, UX, architects, and quality engineering to define thoughtful, detailed product release requirements. You will work with the marketing team to define the go-to-market strategy, helping them crystallize the product positioning, its business value, key benefits, and target customers. You will also evangelize your product offering internally (e.g., sales)
and externally with our customers and partners

What you’ll do:

  • Define the complete set of product requirements by engaging with customers & other internal stakeholders
  • Be the “CEO of the product” and manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning, road mapping, feature design, development support, go-to-market, and field support for components of the Coupa Sourcing product
  • Own the product vision and roadmap for direct procurement mainly focussing on upstream procurement process
  • Work cross-functionally to ensure alignment between other product areas and the wider organization
  • Specify market requirements for current and future products by conducting market research supported by close collaboration with customers and prospects
  • Work closely with engineering through design, build, test of requirements (stories) and documentation
  • Continually assess our products’ competitive market position
  • Give polished presentations to stakeholders and customers.
  • What you bring to Coupa:

  • 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Consulting or Supply Chain/Procurement Solutions
  • Strong consulting background implementing upstream / direct procurement processes for manufacturing customers
  • Deep domain expertise in:
  • Direct material procurement
  • Bill of Materials (BOM) driven processes
  • Managing materials master
  • Direct material price modelling and cost structures
  • APQP, PPAP and supplier quality processes
  • Supplier qualification and lifecycle management
  • Proven ability to convert process knowledge into product capabilities
  • Experience in integrating ERP with best of breed procurement solutions
  • Experience working with enterprise SaaS or procurement platforms
  • BA/BS in Computer Science with the strong Direct Material background is a strong plus
  • Preferred Skill:
  • Experience with ERP or procurement systems (e.g., SAP, Oracle, Coupa, Ariba, GEP, Jaggaer, Ivalua)
  • Experience in working with automotive, industrial manufacturing, electronics, CPG, Food or Chemical industry customers
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Strong fundamentals with application development, Agile software development, Jira, Confluence
  • Coupa complies with relevant laws and regulations regarding equal opportunity and offers a welcoming and inclusive work environment. Decisions related to hiring, compensation, training, or evaluating performance are made fairly, and we provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified candidates and employees. 

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