Product Manager

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

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in Stellenbosch is looking for a senior level Product Manager to support product development from inception through delivery. The ideal candidate will have over five years of management experience in product development, ablility to optimize product life cycles, and strong skills in agile methodologies. You will work with multi-functional teams and stakeholders to ensure successful product strategies align with business objectives.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of management experience preferably in product development.
• Experience in managing and delivering products successfully.
• Strong financial acumen for budget management.

Responsibilities

• Support the Product Head in producing the best product.
• Optimize the product life cycle through effective management.
• Collaborate with teams to determine product development priorities.

Skills

Management experience

Product development

Agile product ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven approach

Stakeholder management

Job description

Requirements

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

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

Knowledge and 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
• 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