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  • Posted: Nov 20, 2025
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Takealot.com is the leading ecommerce retailer in South Africa and one of the largest, most innovative ecommerce retailers on the African continent. Our mission is to be the most customer-centric online shopping destination in Africa, built around the simple concept that the customer comes first. All of our focus is dedicated to improving the customer ...
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    Junior Product Manager: Facilities & Network

    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

    Attributes required:

    • Passion for understanding unique, ambiguous, complex problems and driving high quality, innovative, clean solutions
    • Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
    • Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
    • Strong project management and communication skills
    • Ability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally 
    • Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
    • Ability to verbalize, visualize and communicate outcomes or technical concepts in a clear, concise manner to various stakeholder groups
    • Good technical understanding of software development processes
    • Good business analysis skills - analytical and able to use data to make decisions
    • Highly structured thinker with strong attention to detail
    • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including technical and non-technical individuals

    Qualifications and experience:

    • Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field with at least 3 years of business analysis experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities) OR 1 year of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
    • If the degree/diploma qualification requirement isn’t met, at least 6 years of business analysis experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities) or 4 years of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
    • Experience working with data analytics tools (e.g. Excel, SQL, BigQuery, DBeaver)
    • Experience working with wireframing tools is preferable
    • Experience in working with Android applications
    • Design Thinking experience will be highly advantageous
    • Experience in the Retail, Logistics or Supply Chain industries would be advantageous 

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