Product Manager

Boardroom Appointments; Durban North; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment agency seeks an experienced individual for a Product Manager role in Durban North, South Africa. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing product strategy, conducting market analyses, and steering the product roadmap. Essential skills include effective stakeholder communication and the ability to deliver products that meet customer needs. The position offers the opportunity to work with cross-functional teams to drive product success and financial growth.

Responsibilities

• Manage product management planning, direction, and analysis.
• Develop and drive product roadmaps for allocated products.
• Conduct market and competitor analyses for product positioning.

Job description

Responsibilities

Responsibilities include:

• Product Management planning, direction and analysis
• Develops and drives a product roadmap required to achieve the product strategy for allocated products.
• Conduct market and competitor analyses to advise on product positioning and variants for different customer and user segments.
• Determine product costs and forecast revenue potential to determine product viability.
• Work with creative teams to produce product prototypes and review with customers and stakeholders to determine if requirements are being met.
• Manage product demand and backlog items and provide the business rationale on priorities to software development teams and other stakeholders to ensure that, over time, the needs of customers/users continue to be met and that financial and other benefits are achieved.
• Define feature level product requirements with customers and internal stakeholder to enable translation to detailed business requirements.
• Review all product enhancements with delivery teams and gathers feedback from customers to ensure it meets the expectations of customers (implement, iterate, repeat)
• Ensures product standards are met to ensure products align across business units.
• Develops and executes go-to-market strategies for products to maximise relevance and drive revenue growth.
• Analyse and report on product metrics to ensure product health, ROI and usage meets the defined product KPIs
• Review product issues post resolution to identify non-technical product improvements or opportunities.
• Product management practices and continuous improvement
• Creates and drives delivery plans to support the implementation and future proofing of the product management service strategy
• Continuously align with internal and external stakeholders on product roadmaps, data-driven insights and improvement feedback.
• Communicate with stakeholders to ensure they understand the business impact of product issues, risks and possible options to resolve or mitigate.
• Create and maintain product documentation and facilitate training of relevant stakeholders to ensure awareness of relevant product details