Product Owner at Pick n Pay Stores Limited

• Online shopping features (product catalogue, product recommendations, cart e.g.)
• Grocery shopping features (Lists, alternatives, promotions e.g.)
• Degree or diploma in Business Science, Computer Science, Engineering or similar relevant field is beneficial 
• 5 Years working experience as a Product owner or Product Manager 
• Previous working experience as a Mid - Senior Product Owner or experience in tech, start-ups and other high-tech development intensity environments 
• In-depth knowledge of Agile process and principles 
• Proficient in the Atlassian tool suite

Set Product Vision and direction  

• Contribute to creating and evolving the company-wide product strategy with the leaders of the division. 
• Own the strategic roadmap and ensure alignment with organisational goals and market demands. 
• Drive annual strategy sessions to ensure KPI alignment with the business and the Product roadmap. 
• Be close to and represent the data or research findings of how your product/platform users behave and what they want/need 
• Demonstrate leadership and communication skills with success in influencing all levels cross-functionally 
• You are responsible for communicating the product vision to all key stakeholders across the broader organisation.   

Maintain Product Feature Roadmap and Backlog    

• You will lead complex cross-dependency solutioning and manage the end-to-end product development, from planning to delivery, ensuring seamless integration with all our third-party providers. 
• You will be responsible for the implementation of backlog creation and management. Ensuring prioritization of key business drivers across multiple stakeholders, and ensuring this is communicated to all stakeholders, including the development team. 
• As part of prioritisation, you will assess the business value, develop business cases, and prioritise stories, epics, and themes to ensure work focuses on those with the maximum value aligned with product strategy.    

Product Performance & Optimisation 

• Bring a high degree of commerciality, with a focus on customer and business impact, ensuring the commercial sustainability of the products we launch. 
• Make decisions, strategy, priority, and impact visible and understood via roadmaps, one-pagers, reports, and (most importantly) great conversations. 
• Measure and present results and progress toward product goals. 
• Lead on selecting product input metrics that influence the strategic business output metrics and contribute to establishing KPIs 
• Define the necessary metrics and reporting to continuously track the performance of the product.  

Product Excellence in Process & Delivery  

• Ability to focus on the right priorities, aligned with the strategy and our target customer segments, and quantified/prioritised using tools such as MOSCOW and Business scoring.  
• Prioritise time to market using a minimum viable product. Challenge hard on must haves versus nice to haves. Ensure the discipline of hypothesis-driven development. 
• Product one pagers are developed with usefulness for the entire organisation, defining the product challenge/opportunity and with the appropriate approach to the solution. 
• Manage and maintain your domain roadmaps. 

Competencies:

• This role requires experience managing complex system integrations and cross-domain dependencies to implement the best customer solutions.
• You will be required to collaborate closely with cross-functional product teams in business areas including our e-commerce head, merchandising & promotion teams for customer service, advanced data analytics, and technology.
• A successful candidate will drive the success of our e-commerce grocery business. 
• The role oversees the development of key products and services alongside the product owners in the e-commerce Pod.

End Date: December 5, 2025