Product Manager - Cape Town
Salary Negotiable
Cape Town,
Western Cape
more than 14 days ago
Product Manager
Responsibilities
Preferred Skills and Behaviours
Responsibilities
- Provides a Product Vision document outlining the short term and long term vision and goals for relevant Products that is updated on a regular basis.
- Works with other Product Managers and departments to deliver a combined, coordinated vision, and ensure seamless product integrations where relevant
- Conducts competitor analysis to identify areas of opportunity, and develops and maintains detailed analysis of the competitive landscape and equivalent Product trends to ensure Product evangelization and market edge is maintained
- Compiles Competitor Analysis reports. Provide feedback to Product Managers, BAs and other stakeholders on findings
- Continually reviews current products for additional changes in order to achieve an outstanding product. Compiles reports of reviews, findings and recommendations
- Provide Quarterly Forecast Plan on relevant Products, detailed action items that will be focused on and goals for each quarter. Compiles quarterly reports on goals achieved
- Collaborates with the development and resource teams, and acts as the main contact for product decisions, direction and prioritisation during the software development and implementation phase
- Interfaces with project teams, usability interaction and other functions to drive timely, seamless and successful rollouts/ launches.
- Interfaces with 3rd party suppliers, as and when required, in order to optimize software products
- Along with the leader develops and owns the product roadmap, in order to realise the underlying products and benefits from conceptualisation to implementation and beyond.
- Collaborates with and ensures the development teams know what the vision of the product is and what each phase/sprint delivers and what the business value and drivers are (goals) through a BRS.
- Collaborates and ensures functional specifications are made available on time and conducts specification reviews with development teams.
- Attends the project iteration/ sprint reviews and ensures the objective/ goals are measured and published
- Ensures the Product/s are understood and used to their full potential across all applicable Clients
- Ensured that the Product/s are understood across all departments in company
- Advocates the utilization of the business applications products amongst top tier operators to demonstrate its utility in ensuring competitive advantage
- Maintains high level of indepth, product specific knowledge, as well as general product area related knowledge
- Provides support during new product rollouts and product update rollouts (proactive testing, communication with operators and internal departments)
- Maintains a prioritized Product backlog of requirements and defects that supports the roadmap which will ensure optimal delivery of business value after each phase or sprint.
- Provide ongoing Product support, assisting Stakeholders to manage backlogs, resolve Support issues and actively monitors Remedy / Fogbugz / relevant tracking systems
- Compile monthly and quarterly reports per product, reflecting product performance, usage, opportunities, and dashboard monitoring.
- Implement changes / suggest changes to internal processes / products based on key metrics and reports
- Relevant tertiary qualifications
Preferred Skills and Behaviours
- Strategic thinking
- Mobile
- AGILE
- Scrum
- prioritise
- collect and analyse data
- Influence and Communciate
- Product Planning
- Product Marketing
- MUST HAVE UI/UX EXPERIENCE
Recruiter: CompuJobs