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Nedbank Group Limited is a bank holding company that operates as one of the four largest banking groups in South Africa. The company's shares have been listed on the JSE Limited since 1969. The group offers a wide range of wholesale and retail banking services through four main business clusters, namely Nedbank Corporate and Investment Banking, Nedbank Retai...
Job Purpose
To create internal and external product vision and lead product management development into multiple digital channels fo our Wealth Management Investments and Share Trading platform. Work with key stakeholders (sales trading, investment operations, marketing and client value propositions) to develop the investment products and services into Nedbank's secure digital channels. Is responsible for setting, prioritizing, and evaluating the subsequent development work that is to be delivered by a dedicated digital squad. Develop impeccable gold standard features and functionality by using client led design. Investment and share trading experience and agil product delivery skills are essential.
Job Responsibilities
Manage the scope and move through iterations
Assist the Scrum Master to organise Sprint Review Meetings.
Take lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
Provide guidance in mitigating impediments impacting the completion of Release/Sprint Goals
Develop and maintain, prioritized and manage backlog of user stories for implementation
Write user stories
Create and maintain the Product Backlog according to business value or ROI
Prioritize the features in the Backlog before Sprint and set Sprint goals
Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that it is clearly understood by the development teams
Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary technical contact for queries related to the product
Develop product pricing and positioning strategies
Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
Build and follow a roadmap
Provide insights into the user test cases and arrange product testing groups
Define feature acceptance criteria and test cases
Manage the user acceptance testing process
Track progress in a running system, proven to work by passing repeatable tests.
Drive product launch
Build and maintain product awareness on all levels among product teams
Incorporate feature requests into product roadmap
Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria
Plan releases and upgrades
Review solution design plans
Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities
Declare the business priority of every user story
Substitute functionality and to change priorities
Manage the development teams to deliver innovative solutions with an appropriate sense of urgency
Follow progress of work and address production issues during sprints
Ensure the team focus on behaviour and outcomes that drive customer value
Communicate the Business Requirements to the team
Work with key stakeholders across the company to ensure successful product releases
Ensure understanding of the customer experience
Analyse preferences and requests of end users
Refine the agile methodology based on results and client feedback
Communicate, negotiate, and resolve conflicting interests between key stakeholders.
Represent customer needs and priorities to the team
Assess value, develop cases, and prioritize stories, epics and themes to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with product strategy
Facilitate demos and customer feedback sessions
Conduct Sprint planning and resource estimation
Prioritize processes and activities
Participate in the promotion plan development.
Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
Coordinate with other Agile team leaders
Provide status updates to business leadership
Research and analyse market, the users, and the roadmap for the product
Follow competitors and the industry and keep track of industry trends
Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
Stay abreast of developments in field of expertise
Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.
People Specification
Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees
Preferred Qualification
Product Owner Training/Course (Formal or Informal)
Bachelor's Degree - preferably commerce
Agile Software Development
Type of Exposure
Maintained Productive Working Relationships
Managed work deliverables
Managed work processes
Collaborating and networking with stakeholders
Developing multiple creative solutions in terms of a Great Place to work
Facilitate Working with a group to identify alternative solutions to a problem
Networking and building business relationships
Relationship and interpersonal skills in working with IT vendors across the entire contract life cycle.
Working on large; complex; multi-disciplinary projects
IT Practices and Industry Knowledge
Minimum Experience Level
Technical / Professional Knowledge
Awareness of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
Knowledge of specific technology
Business Acumen
Company/Division/Cluster/Business Unit specific business knowledge
Internal Business Products and Processes
Business analysis
User stories
Multiple IT products
Product design
Specific IT products knowledge
Behavioural Competencies
Driving Innovation
Customer Focus
Operational Decision Making
Strategic Planning
Building Customer Relationships
Driving for results
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