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Senior Product Manager- Communities & MarketplacesPenny Software • WorkFromHome, South Africa
Senior Product Manager- Communities & Marketplaces

Senior Product Manager- Communities & Marketplaces

Penny Software • WorkFromHome, South Africa
30+ days ago
Job description

We want to make procurement better, by building the ultimate procurement and sourcing platform. We plan on becoming the go-to solution for procurement departments everywhere. Our source to pay platform lets organisations around the world find suppliers, issue tenders, and receive responses faster, cheaper, and more efficiently than ever before.

As part of growing our tech function, we’re hiring a Senior Product Manager to lead our marketplaces and communities initiatives, which is a key growth driver for Penny. This is a high-impact role that will shape the future of procurement in the region by building products that connect buyers and suppliers in novel ways. Our marketplaces and communities solution supports vendors and buyers by facilitating discovery, transactions, revenue growth, and cost savings, and is being built to service billions of dollars of transaction value per year.

Role Responsibilities : What you’ll do

As Senior Product Manager for marketplaces & communities, you’ll own the success of Penny’s supplier-facing platform, enabling thousands of suppliers to discover opportunities, respond to tenders, and grow their business. You will also be responsible for the marketplace offering, ensuring buyers on the marketplace can source faster, cheaper from a high-trust marketplace. Your work will directly impact the success of both suppliers and buyers on our platform.

We recognize that product managers lead in different ways, we’re looking for someone who can :

  • Deliver and Execute : develop and execute the product strategy for Penny’s supplier platform, focusing on supplier acquisition, engagement, and success
  • Quality Growth : Drive rapid growth in marketplace adoption, particularly in the construction and contracting sectors, and identify opportunities for further growth and expansion
  • People Leadership : Define and track key marketplace metrics, including GTV, supplier response rates, and buyer satisfaction
  • Collaborate : Partner with engineering and design to build features that make sourcing and bidding more efficient
  • Stakeholder Relationships : Build strong stakeholder relationships with other teams at Penny, as well as our marketplace operating partners to deliver customer value
  • Organisational Wide Impact : Collaborate with leadership to shape Penny’s overall product strategy

Role Requirements : What you need to succeed

  • 7+ years of product management experience, with 2 years of proven success in SaaS marketplace or two-sided platforms
  • Strong analytical skills and comfort with marketplace metrics and economics
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and third party partners
  • Strong track record of shipping features that drive measurable business impact
  • Nice to have :

  • Experience at a fast-growing startup
  • Experience building SaaS products for enterprise customers
  • Experience in procurement, supply chain, or enterprise software
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English; Arabic is a plus
  • Knowledge of the Saudi or wider GCC market, especially in contracting, construction or pharmaceuticals
  • Why Penny :

  • Medical insurance, sponsorship to Saudi Arabia or Bahrain
  • Annual learning & development budget
  • ESOP will be offered in the form of shares, with details to be shared during the offer stage of the hiring process.
  • Macbook or equivalent laptop. We care about enabling you to do your best work!
  • 21 days leave for candidates in Saudi, and 30 days annual leave for remote candidates.
  • About us

    Our values :

    We remove complexity from bureaucracy. We automate first, manual second. We are efficient, highly organised and effective collaborators. We’re easy to work with, easy to use and easy to join. We’re minimalist in design and concise in how we speak.

    We strive for perfection but we know we will never reach it. We build. We value giving and receiving feedback. We never sit still. We’re always learning. We know excellence today is not excellence tomorrow.

    We are open and honest. We don’t carry bias. We proactively create a level playing field. We’re diverse, we’re equal, we’re respectful. We are humble and active listeners.

    Take responsibility

    We’re innovators, solution architects and collaborators. We empower with unrivalled access. We unleash efficiency, free from constraint. We take ownership and are trusted to make decisions. We embrace a culture of freedom.

    We’re tenacious, we’re hungry. We’re passionate and energetic. We set and achieve audacious goals. We dream big and execute. We partner with, hire and embolden the ambitious.

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