Product Manager Job Stellenbosch area,South Africa,Business

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