job description - Product Manager (Business-to-Business)
- Building the overall vision and roadmap of the B2B (business-to-business) portfolio at Takealot.
- Working cross-functionally with engineering, design, operations, and executive teams to bring about product enhancements that will improve B2 B-related processes.
- Take responsibility for talks and negotiations with partners and aggregators dealing with B2B services.
- Researching the best solutions in the market. Keep up to date with the latest trends and developments and build cases for projects that can move the business forward.
- Working with business owners to understand their strategy, requirements, and priorities to translate their needs into projects for our B2B business.
- Defining/tracking the metrics and data that will inform all decisions on product features and functionality.
- Analyzing and understanding the project scope and core objectives through workshops with stakeholders to define business requirements.
- Eliciting low-level functional requirements and documenting these requirements such that detailed technical specifications can be compiled by Engineering.
- Collaborate with technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
- Evolve appropriate Product Management practices for a responsive, dynamic environment to foster the effective execution of commitments.
- Be proactive in ensuring that the development and QA teams understand the requirements by attending backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
- Setting timelines, driving project schedules, and leading cross-functional development teams from design through to release.
- Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.
- Performing user acceptance testing.
The skills we need:
- Must have a proven track record of execution and can formulate a detailed product roadmap, and execute that plan.
- Ability to wear multiple hats to guide business analysts, UX experts, and engineering to deliver world-class products.
- Solution-oriented, accountable, highly motivated, and have a robust personality.
- The ability to take initiative in ambiguous situations, by identifying critical problems and driving solutions.
- Data-driven decision-making.
- Outstanding organizational and communication skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities
- Attention to detail
- An avid customer advocate
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field and a minimum of 5 years of Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
- If a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field, an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
- Experience in an e-commerce environment or an API-driven technical environment would be an advantage.
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Takealot.com is an online store, our services are fast, reliable delivery to your door. You shop for anything you can imagine, such as TVs, laptops, cell phones, etc.