Strategic IT Product Manager: Roadmap, Value & Security

PerformIT Personnel; Gqeberha; On-site; ZAR 1,000,000 - 1,400,000; Full time

Job summary

PerformIT Personnel seeks a seasoned IT product owner to govern the full product lifecycle within logistics and IT sectors. You will own TCO, maintain cost models, and drive cost optimization across a multi-year roadmap while aligning strategic business outcomes with technical delivery.

The role demands hands-on technical expertise, systems thinking, and strong stakeholder management to shape demand, manage risk, and ensure performance, security, and resilience across the product stack.

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of IT systems, technical architecture, integrations, and data.
• Hands-on technical or engineering background.
• Experience in IT product ownership or technical product management.
• Strong technical depth in architecture, cloud, integration, or software delivery.
• Industry experience in logistics and/or warehousing.
• Skills in Architecture, Data Analysis, Stakeholder Management, Management, and Strategic Thinking.

Responsibilities

• Own the full financial picture of the product — total cost of ownership (TCO), across run and change, with no unmanaged spend.
• Maintain a tiered cost model and track a Cost Confidence %; drive discovery to close cost gaps.
• Track unit economics and explain budget variance monthly.
• Define and sign off a Product Definition before project initiation.
• Manage a 12+ month rolling roadmap across five swim lanes, updating it monthly.
• Set and defend the strategic lifecycle position — Retain, Grow, Consolidate, Migrate, or Retire.
• Make outcome-driven decisions using KPIs and measurable targets.
• Act as a strategic advisor to the business, shaping demand and framing requests against value, cost, and risk.
• Run business reviews and challenge requests diplomatically.
• Own end-to-end service performance, managing vendor performance through SLAs, scorecards, and trend analysis.
• Escalate failures with evidence and root-cause analysis, providing commercial recommendations.
• Drive the product’s security, risk, and compliance posture, including access, identity, and privilege governance.
• Ensure BCP/DR plans are documented and tested.
• Bring an outside-in perspective via market scanning, benchmarking, and customer discovery.
• Act as a thought leader, translating market trends into strategic advantages.
• Own key architecture and technical trade-off decisions, understanding the product’s technology stack.
• Ensure all technical decisions are evidence-based, standards-aligned, and support performance, resilience, scalability, and security.

Skills

IT systems

Technical product ownership

Architecture

Cloud

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Management

Job description

PerformIT Personnel seeks a seasoned IT product owner to govern the full product lifecycle within logistics and IT sectors. You will own TCO, maintain cost models, and drive cost optimization across a multi-year roadmap while aligning strategic business outcomes with technical delivery.

The role demands hands-on technical expertise, systems thinking, and strong stakeholder management to shape demand, manage risk, and ensure performance, security, and resilience across the product stack.