Managed People Solutions is currently seeking a Product Manager for our client in the Supply Chain industry based in the Johannesburg area. As a Product Manager, you will play a pivotal role in guiding the strategic, tactical, and operational aspects of our client's Product Portfolio, working collaboratively with various teams to drive innovation and growth.

Responsibilities

• Lead as Product Manager in the South African Market as well as enable activities within a Product Owner capacity, when necessary.
• Understand and research customer needs, market trends and potential partnerships, basing it on cost vs revenue perspectives.
• Translate and collaborate with the Head of Product on the Product Strategy (for SA) and concisely articulate it into detailed requirements and prototypes.
• Dive product and business-planning processes across different business units in the company.
• Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications and design solutions accordingly.
• Ensure that product deadlines are met, and the relevant stakeholders are always kept up to date on interest elements.
• Create and maintain a high standard of reliability, quality and usability during product phases and ensure measurements are adhered to.
• Strategize and derive go-to-market plans with the Head Product and Product Marketing/commercial teams.
• Report and measure product launch success through qualitative and quantitative metrics.
• Actively coordinate, prepare, and manage up product aligned business strategy for execution.
• Support the build and delivery through to our delivery teams in building a range of products & services that could include responsive digital apps, APIs and data solutions to drive our digital strategy.

Requirements

• 7-10 years’ experience in Product Management building Fintech, Ecommerce, Online Marketplace products. Experience with early-stage product is of great advantage.
• Strong understanding of the South African use case, user experience and market dynamics.
• A bachelor's degree in any related field of study such as Business, Marketing, Computer Science / Engineering.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and translate business needs to technical requirements.
• Experience in launching Digital and Physical products in emerging markets.

Closing Date: 12 April 2024

Should you not receive any feedback regarding your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.