Junior Product Manager : Facilities & Network

Junior Product Manager : Facilities & Network

Cape Town

takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Junior Product Manager to join our Facilities and Network Product team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us.

This position reports to the Facilities and Network Product Manager

Your responsibilities will include :

• Determine what data needs to be gathered to inform decision making around product requirements
• Conduct on-the-ground analysis of processes to make informed decisions
• Conduct Gap analysis on current and potential future systems
• Gather and use quantitative and qualitative data to help formulate product requirements
• Extract key insights from data for post-launch impact analysis
• Create, design and document reporting metrics to measure pre and post-launch impact / efficiency
• Suggest ideas to solve customer challenges and validate them in close collaboration with UX and relevant stakeholders
• Clearly communicate requirements to UX / UI design resources
• Work with design resources to finalize the customer experience for a particular feature
• Take end-to-end ownership of product development including documentation, implementation, testing, launch, and success metric monitoring
• Facilitate backlog grooming and planning ceremonies
• Clarify project requirements and create acceptance criteria with QA and Engineering
• Perform pre-launch user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Collaborate with technical teams to document high-level non-functional and functional requirements
• Apply understanding of system architecture to help shape functional requirements
• Ensure relevant stakeholders for a project are correctly identified, consulted and informed
• Have a deep understanding of core stakeholder pain-points / objectives related to a project and long term strategic vision
• Manage relationships with stakeholders, related to a specific project(s), including obtaining senior stakeholder buy-in, approval and sign off for requirements and relevant project status communications
• Take initiative to identify critical problems and drive solutions in collaboration with relevant stakeholders
• Understand the product vision and strategy and how this impacts parallel teams and work streams
• Contribute to the roadmap to execute the product strategy

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Let’s talk about life @ Takealot Group

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.

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