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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Strategic Collaboration: Work with business stakeholders to understand strategy, requirements, and priorities to inform the product vision and contribute to the definition of the product strategy. Identify key business needs, market trends, and opportunities to translate needs into projects for our B2B business.
Roadmap Development: Develop and execute the product roadmap for the B2B product vertical, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product requirements, features, and priorities.
Product Development: Lead product development and delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality output in collaboration with product, engineering, design, and QA teams.
Data-Driven Decisions: Determine necessary data for informed decision-making, and gather quantitative and qualitative data to formulate product requirements.
Design Consistency: Ensure consistency of design patterns across your product portfolio.
Stakeholder Engagement: Suggest solutions to stakeholder challenges, validate with metrics, and maintain clear communication.
Customer Experience: Finalise the customer experience for features in collaboration with design resources.
Technical Collaboration: Engage with technical teams to document non-functional requirements and contribute to technical design decisions.
KPI Alignment: Influence and align technical KPIs with business KPIs.
Stakeholder Management: Take ownership of stakeholder relationships, project prioritisation, and roadmap status communications. Engage alongside the B2B team with 3rd party vendors/partners and aggregators using B2B services as required.
Attributes Required
Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude with high energy.
Strong analytical and critical thinking, leveraging data to inform decisions.
Ability to identify improvement areas in current processes.
Passion for tackling ambiguous, complex problems with innovative, high-quality solutions.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor’s degree or Advanced Diploma in a relevant field, or equivalent industry experience.
Knowledge of financial principles across multiple streams: AR, AP, Revenue, Inventory.
Demonstrable experience as a Product Manager or similar role, ideally within an ecommerce or data-centric organisation.
Experience leading cross-functional teams, collaborating with engineering, design, and QA teams to deliver high-quality software products.
Experience in owning technology products.
Proven ability to influence senior leadership through data-driven insights.
Previous experience in a B2B environment along with investigative SQL skills would be an advantage.
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