Product Manager: Business Intelligence Enablement at Shoprite Group of Companies

Job Objectives

• Manage a value stream of products and services to deliver the required functionality and value.
• Provide support in designing processes and strategies for moving analytics close to the business and to position the Shoprite Analytics brand as a strategic enabler for the business.
• Work with the relevant cross functional teams to establish the solution roadmap that meets the business needs, drive continuous exploration to define the benefit hypotheses, processes and solution intent.  
• Guide cross functional teams to plan, forecast and market the solution at each stage of the delivery lifecycle.
• Work closely with cross functional teams to ensure that feature breakdown is done effectively.  
• Contribute as subject matter expert on BI solutions to drive business objectives.  
• Represent the value stream in ART level events; ART syncs, inspect and adapt, PI planning, demos and continuous exploration reviews.
• Determine and track the profitability of BI products and services to assess their value-add to the business.  
• Drive ongoing and open communication with internal departments and external stakeholders.
• Serve as key integration point for cross functional teams working on BI solutions.  

Qualifications

• Degree in Business, IT, Data Science, Engineering, Marketing or another relevant field – (essential).  

Experience

• +6 years’ experience in a similar role, with proven success launching new solutions and complex features and translating business strategy and analysis into successful solutions – (essential).  
• Experience leading an agile team – (essential). 
• Experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex solutions – (essential). 
• Depth of understanding and experience with analytics and big data – (essential).