takealot.com, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly-talented Product Manager to join the Logistics Team in Cape Town.We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us.Think you've been challenged before? Think again!Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com and 2.7 million on Mr D. Show them what you can do.Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Work 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.The position reports to the Logistics Product Lead.Your responsibilities will include the following:Work with the Logistics Product Lead to define the overall vision and roadmap of features and services for the Takealot Group Logistics Facilities and Network product.Translate business requirements into functional and technical IT user stories and project specifications, ensuring that projects are broken down into phases to deliver business benefit as soon as possible.Manage a team of business analysts and junior product managers responsible for helping define requirements for projects in your roadmap.Collaborate cross-functionally with customer service, engineering, design, operations, and stakeholders to enhance products for our customers and/or business.Understand stakeholder strategy, requirements, and priorities to translate needs into recommended initiatives & projects that affect the product.Define and track metrics and data that will inform all product features and functionality decisions.Create business cases to motivate the prioritization of initiatives to improve and drive these metrics.Analyse and understand project scope and core objectives through requirements workshops with stakeholders.Elicit detailed, low-level functional requirements and document these for technical specifications to be compiled by Engineering.Collaborate with technical leads and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.Ensure development and QA teams understand the requirements by participating in backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions.Set timelines, drive project schedules, manage stakeholder communications, and lead cross-functional development teams from design through to release.Review test plans and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.Perform user acceptance testing.Attributes Required:Proven track record of execution and ability to formulate a detailed product roadmap and execute on that plan.Ability to guide junior product managers, business analysts, UX experts, and engineering to deliver world-class products.Solution-oriented, accountable, highly motivated with a robust personality.Ability to take initiative in ambiguous situations by identifying critical problems and driving solutions.Strong analytical background with data-driven decision-making. Attention to detail with a curious mind.Outstanding organizational and communication skills with the ability to balance multiple priorities.An avid customer advocate.Qualification & Experience:Minimum Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Information Systems, BCom Computer Science, or a similar degree.At least 2 years of experience in a product development environment.Preferably 2 years of agile experience.Experience in an e-commerce or Supply Chain and Logistics environment is advantageous.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 and grow your skills.Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders.Good times: Engage with extraordinary minds during regular social events.Staff discount: Access millions of products across 28 departments.Birthday leave: Enjoy your day off on your special day.Right tools, right job: Work with the latest tech and tools.Help when you need it most: Access confidential counseling and support services.Tech stack: Angular, Scala, Kotlin, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, and machine learning.Free parking: Convenient parking available.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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