Specialist: Digital Product Management at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Leads the implementation of the strategic digital roadmap of specific single business roadmap across multiple channels.
• Delivers complex, large scale digital products through the integration and optimisation of the internal value chain but limited to a single roadmap.

Job Description

Education/Qualifications & Experience Required:

• NQF 7 - 8 / Bachelors' Degrees within disciplines of Media/Digital, Engineering, Business, Commerce, Marketing or Design
• 4-8 years relevant experience

Skills & Competencies required:

• Certified Product Manager (Advantage)
• Agile and Waterfall Project methodologies and development
• Material and customer centered design
• Basic marketing and go to market planning
• Quantitative Analysis and Analytical thinking
• Continuous improvement Lean startup
• Leading teams
• Working with and building colloborative teams / culture
• Planning organising and project delivery
• Functional and operational strategy
• Results orientation
• Customer focus
• Reasoning
• Systems thinking
• Creative innovative thinking
• Application of digital technologies
• Business acumen

Key accountabilities

• Accountable to deliver specific end to end features or projects on a specific digital channel.  Will engage with various stakeholders and functional areas to achieve the delivery of the end to end product
• Creates and delivers a quality product and optimises the operational metrics for a single product set on a specific channel.  This includes maximising the outcomes for the project deliverables
• Accountable to ensure the adherence to standards and best practices in delivering the outcomes.  Schedules customer reviews and uses data and key painpoints to articulate further improvement opportunities
• Delivers the commercial outcomes of a specific feature and makes reccomendations to improve commercial outcomes.  Uses data insights to indentify opportunities and make recommendations for investment
• Participates in continuous improvement projects and is a key member assigned to specific outcomes to continuously improve the functional profession chapter.  Stays in touch and continuously learns the emerging trends in digital and digital product ownership
• Participates in innovation solutioning and provides input into problem solving. Contributes by providing alternatives and differring view points.  Accountable to deliver implemented innovation experiments, design the testing systems and gather experimental data for decision making
• Works with functional specialist to deliver specific product and project outcomes.  Contributes towards a culture of continuous improvement. Ensures adherence too various standards and protocls. Takes end to end accountability to deliver specifc business metrics for the digtial assets under direct control.

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

End Date: October 8, 2025