takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is seeking a highly talentedProduct Manager (Financial Systems) to join our dynamic team in Cape Town.
If you have a genuine passion for technology and a drive to continually explore, learn, and enhance your skills, we want you! We are a hyper-growth company looking for smart, innovative, autonomous, and creative individuals to join us.
Our Impact
Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and up-skill in record time.
Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com, Superbalist.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here's your chance.
Reporting Structure
This position reports directly to the Product Lead.
Your Mission
You will oversee the execution of large organisational goals from concept to implementation by coordinating activities across multiple cross-divisional teams.
Key Responsibilities:
Strategic Collaboration: Work with business stakeholders to identify key business needs, market trends, and opportunities to inform the product vision and contribute to definition of the product strategy.
Roadmap Development: Develop and execute the product roadmap for the Finance 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, 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.
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 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.
SQL skills in order to investigate data discrepancies across different systems and database tables.
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.
Let's talk about life @ Takealot Group
The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs.
No doors: We aren't fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments.
Remote working: Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
Mentorship programme: Learn from the best.
Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders.
Good times: Regular social events and out-of-office activities.
Staff discount: Millions of products across 28 departments.
Birthday leave: Enjoy your day off.
Right tools, right job: Work on the latest tech.
Help when you need it most: Confidential counseling, legal support, and financial guidance.
Tech stack (for days): Angular, Scala, Kotlin, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes.
Free parking: No more long walks to your desk.
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us and show millions of shoppers what you can do!
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities, to apply.
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