Product Manager

Boardroom Appointments; Stellenbosch; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Boardroom Appointments seeks an experienced product leader to support the Product Head in shaping and delivering the product at a strategic and operational level.

The role focuses on aligning business and technical product segments, driving data-informed decisions, and managing cross-functional teams and stakeholders across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years management experience; senior level product development or product manager/owner.
• 5+ years experience managing, developing and delivering a product previously.
• Experience working at tactical and operational levels and input into product strategy and business planning.
• Ability to communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units.
• Experience authoring product lifecycle documents: roadmap, business cases and requirements.

Responsibilities

• To support the Product Head in producing the best product.
• Optimising the product through directing the building and development of the product throughout its life cycle.
• Partnering with the Software Development Manager and teams on the sequence/priority to build and develop the product.

Skills

Senior management

Product ownership

Agile

Stakeholder mgmt

Job description

• At least 5 years management experience; senior level product development or product manager/owner
• 5+ years experience managing, developing and delivering a product previously

Knowledge and experience:

Experience:

• Working at tactical and operational levels and providing input into product strategy and business planning.
• Integrating business and technical product segments to achieve objectives, delivery and targets.
• Career experience to include some time in one or more technical roles.
• Communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units.
• Authoring of documents relating to product life cycle including business plans, product roadmap, business cases and requirements and functional specifications.
• Scoping/running usability studies and/or customer research.
• Using data and metrics to test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success
• Client development and validating products through customer feedback.
• Aligning operational initiatives and/or projects to corporate strategies and objectives
• Achieving goals and objectives through cross functional teams.
• Managing and working with remote / hybrid teams.
• Leading and managing multi-functional teams to deliver

Knowledge:

• Financial acumen sufficient for budget management
• Translation of product strategies into tactical and operational planning
• Systems thinking; able to take a big picture view, assess, recommend logical, sound decisions and influence others to achieve objectives.
• Relevant product expertise and process know-how
• Agile product ownership and methodology
• Domain specific knowledge, business insight, understanding of product technology, technical dependencies
• People management principles and techniques
• Stakeholder management principles and practices
• Data-driven approach; analytical and quantitative skills.
• Technologically literate and able to adapt to new technologies

Ideal:

• Product development experience in the product domain at management level
• Working with Agile product ownership and methodology
• Of translating and enabling business strategies and objectives into business benefits
• Initiation and implementation of innovative concepts
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of banking (i.e. productivity, profit, efficiency, processes and procedures and client service)
  
• Continuous improvement best practices (Lean, 6-Sigma, Theory of constraints, PDCA, etc.)
• Process mapping and process improvements techniques

Responsibilities:

• To support the Product Head in producing the best product
• Optimising the product through directing the building and development of the product throughout its life cycle
• Partnering and collaborating with the Software Development Manager and teams around the sequence/priority in which to build and develop the product