Senior Product Manager at Penny Software

Penny Software; Manama; On-site; BHD 15,000 - 24,000; Full time

Job summary

Penny Software in Manama is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead our supplier marketplace and communities initiatives—a high-impact role shaping procurement in the region. This is a full-time, on-site position aimed at driving growth and efficiency in our source-to-pay platform.

You will partner with engineering and design to deliver features that improve supplier acquisition, engagement and success, while tracking key marketplace metrics and collaborating with leadership to maximize

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience with two-sided platforms or SaaS marketplaces.
• Strong analytical capabilities and comfort with marketplace metrics and economics.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication, with cross-functional influence.
• Proven track record shipping features that drive measurable business impact.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and execute the product strategy for Penny's supplier platform, focusing on supplier acquisition, engagement, and success.
• Drive rapid growth in marketplace adoption, especially in construction and contracting sectors.
• Define and track marketplace metrics, including GTV, supplier response rates, and buyer satisfaction.
• Collaborate with engineering and design to build features that improve sourcing and bidding efficiency.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships across teams and with marketplace operating partners to deliver value.

Skills

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Shipping features

Job description

Senior Product Manager at Penny Software in Manama, B13, BH.

This Full time on site position offers great opportunities for career growth.

We want to make procurement better by building the ultimate procurement and sourcing platform. We plan on becoming the go-to solution for procurement departments everywhere. Our source-to-pay platform lets organizations around the world find suppliers, issue tenders, and receive responses faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than ever before. As part of growing our tech function, we’re hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead our marketplaces and communities initiatives, which is a key growth driver for Penny. This is a high-impact role that will shape the future of procurement in the region by building products that connect buyers and suppliers in novel ways. Our marketplaces and communities solution supports vendors and buyers by facilitating discovery, transactions, revenue growth, and cost savings and is being built to service billions of dollars of transaction value per year.

What you’ll do

• Deliver and Execute: develop and execute the product strategy for Penny's supplier platform, focusing on supplier acquisition, engagement, and success
• Quality Growth: Drive rapid growth in marketplace adoption, particularly in the construction and contracting sectors, and identify opportunities for further growth and expansion
• People Leadership: Define and track key marketplace metrics, including GTV, supplier response rates, and buyer satisfaction
• Collaborate: Partner with engineering and design to build features that make sourcing and bidding more efficient
• Stakeholder Relationships: Build strong stakeholder relationships with other teams at Penny, as well as our marketplace operating partners to deliver customer value
• Organizational-Wide Impact: Collaborate with leadership to shape Penny's overall product strategy

Role Requirements:

• 7+ years of product management experience, with 2 years of proven success in SaaS marketplace or two-sided platforms
• Strong analytical skills and comfort with marketplace metrics and economics
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and third party partners
• Strong track record of shipping features that drive measurable business impact

Nice to have:

• Experience at a fast-growing startup
• Experience building SaaS products for enterprise customers
• Experience in procurement, supply chain, or enterprise software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; Arabic is a plus
• Knowledge of the Saudi or wider GCC market, especially in contracting, construction or pharmaceuticals

About us

Our values:

• Simplicity first We remove complexity from bureaucracy. We automate first, manual second. We are efficient, highly organised and effective collaborators. We’re easy to work with, easy to use and easy to join. We’re minimalist in design and concise in how we speak.
• Chase excellence We strive for perfection but we know we will never reach it. We build. We value giving and receiving feedback. We never sit still. We’re always learning. We know excellence today is not excellence tomorrow.
• Always fair We are open and honest. We don’t carry bias. We proactively create a level playing field. We’re diverse, we’re equal, we’re respectful. We are humble and active listeners.
• Take responsibility We’re innovators, solution architects and collaborators. We empower with unrivalled access. We unleash efficiency, free from constraint. We take ownership and are trusted to make decisions. We embrace a culture of freedom.
• Ambitious mindset We’re tenacious, we’re hungry. We’re passionate and energetic. We set and achieve audacious goals. We dream big and execute. We partner with, hire and embolden the ambitious.