Payment Solutions: Product Manager

1001 Absa Bank; Sandton; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Absa Bank Limited seeks a Product Manager to develop tactical strategy and execution plans for product development, ensuring delivery aligns with business objectives and customer needs.

The role focuses on managing the commercial performance of the product lifecycle and delivering an insights-led proposition that supports the bank’s strategy and growth across Africa.

Qualifications

• Commercial management of product across lifecycle with P&L responsibility.
• Delivery of an insights-led product proposition aligned to business and customer strategies.
• End-to-end product infrastructure: people, process, and technology to support customer experience and profitability.

Responsibilities

• Develop tactical strategy and delivery plans for product development and delivery objectives.
• Ensure operational implementation and adoption of the product development methodology.
• Align product offerings with business goals and demographic representation across markets.

Skills

Commercial management

Product management

Product strategy

Education

Bachelor's Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Job description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time. With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

To develop tactical strategy and delivery plans, formulate associated practice/s and to ensure operational implementation and adoption i.t.o. product development methodology and delivery objectives.

Job Description

• Commercial management: Accountable for managing the commercial performance (P&L) of the product across the product lifecycle in support of the business's high-level financial ambitions and Balance Sheet shape;
• Product Management: Delivers a compelling and insights led Product Proposition offering that aligns to and enables the business and customer strategies:
• Product Infrastructure: Accountable for the entire end-to-end infrastructure (People, Process and Technology) on which the product runs to support the target customer experience whilst ensuring that the product remains commercially viable by ensuring
• Education Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised.

At Absa, our story is not a single narrative. It’s thousands of individual journeys unfolding across Africa and beyond. From colleagues serving customers in local communities to teams shaping financial solutions across borders, Absa is built on people who bring their lived experiences, ambitions and perspectives into the workplace every day. Whether you’re starting your career, a seasoned leader or somewhere in between, your contribution is seen, valued and connected to something bigger.

Our presence across Africa – which spans personal and business banking, corporate and investment banking, wealth and investment management, and insurance – exists because of the people who show up in their roles with purpose. Across Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, our colleagues are shaping what Absa becomes in each market. Beyond the continent, teams in global offices and a technology hub support and extend the stories that prove that African talent can lead, influence and innovate on the global stage.

At Absa, your story matters because progress is driven by human experience, not hierarchy. When people are enabled to bring their whole selves to work, they don’t just build careers. They help shape the future of Africa’s financial services landscape.