Product Head (Data & Analytics) at Capitec Bank

Purpose Statement

Elevate Your Career with Capitec - Where Ownership Meets Innovation

Are you a visionary leader who thrives on transforming strategic direction into tangible excellence? Are you passionate about crafting 'best in world' products and driving them through their entire life cycle? If so, Capitec's Product Manager opportunity for Cash and Cash Devices might be the perfect fit for you!

What You'll Own and Lead

As a Product Manager at Capitec, you will be at the helm of a single, mission-critical product: Cash and Cash Devices. Your responsibilities will include:

• Strategic Vision: Translating our strategic direction into a world-class product experience.
• Ownership and Accountability: Taking complete ownership and accountability for the product's success.
• Team Leadership: Guiding a dedicated team towards achieving your product vision.
• Product Life Cycle: Overseeing the product through every stage of its life cycle.
• Planning and Delivery: Creating plans and ensuring successful delivery of the product.

Education (Minimum)

• Bachelor's Degree

Education (Ideal or Preferred)

• Honours Degree

Knowledge and Experience

Minimum:
Experience

• 10+ yrs experience in business management at a senior level in an innovative high performing environment, ideally banking or FinTech. 
• 5+ years’ experience managing products.
• Business and product vision; has had ownership responsibility for a product previously.
• Product management where there are multiple initiatives with competing priorities and so experience in influencing multiple diverse stakeholders, both business and technology.
• Working at strategic, tactical and technical levels.
• Career experience to include some time in one or more technical roles.
• Communicating with technical and non-technical senior stakeholders across multiple business units. 
• Using data and metrics to test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success
• Earning trust across different levels and multiple groups of a large organization
• Usability studies and/or customer research principles and methods.
• Client development and product validation through customer feedback.
• Using influence and relationships to drive and achieve objectives.
• Leading and guiding multi-functional teams with a single product operating model
• Leading and having oversight of remote / hybrid teams.

Knowledge and Skills

• Strategic and commercial thinking; able to think about problems from a business perspective using people, technology and product input.
• Business acumen and systems thinking; able to take a ‘big picture’ view, assess, make a logical, sound decision and influence others to achieve objectives.
• Financial acumen - sufficient to effectively operate own cost centre
• People leadership and management practices to empower, create focus and delivery.
• Organising, planning and prioritising work.
• Data-driven approach; analytical and quantitative skills.
• Technologically literate and able to adapt to new technologies. 
• Able to dive deep in understanding the product, the business, and the competitive landscape.
• Able to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences. 

Skills

• Commercial Thinking Skills
• Decision making skills
• Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
• Problem solving skills
• Strategic Thinking Skills