Product Manager B2B (Business-to-Business) at takealot.com

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Building the overall vision and roadmap of the B2B (business-to-business) portfolio at Takealot.
• Working cross-functionally with engineering, design, operations, and executive teams to bring about product enhancements that will improve B2B related processes.
• Take responsibility for talks and negotiations with partners and aggregators dealing with B2B services.
• Researching the best solutions in the market. Keep up to date with the latest trends and developments and build cases for projects that can move the business forward.
• Working with business owners to understand their strategy, requirements, and priorities in order to translate their needs into projects for our B2B business.
• Defining/tracking the metrics and data that will inform all decisions on product features and functionality.
• Analyzing and understanding the project scope and core objectives through workshops with stakeholders to define business requirements.
• Eliciting low-level functional requirements and documenting these requirements such that detailed technical specifications can be compiled by Engineering.
• Collaborate with technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Evolve appropriate Product Management practices for a responsive, dynamic environment to foster effective execution of commitments.
• Be proactive in ensuring that the development and QA teams understand the requirements by attending backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
• Setting timelines, driving project schedules, and leading cross-functional development teams from design through to release.
• Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.
• Performing user acceptance testing.

The skills we need:

• Must have a proven track record of execution and can formulate a detailed product roadmap, and to execute on that plan.
• Ability to wear multiple hats to guide business analysts, UX experts and engineering to deliver world-class products.
• Solution-oriented, accountable, highly motivated and have a robust personality.
• The ability to take initiative in ambiguous situations, by identifying critical problems and driving solutions.
• Data-driven decision-making.
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities
• Attention to detail
• An avid customer advocate

Qualifications & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field and a minimum of 5 years Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
• In the event that a candidate does not have a Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field, an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
• Experience in an e-commerce environment or in an API-driven technical environment would be an advantage.