Product Manager

• Define the product vision and roadmap
• Manage multiple streams of requests into the Product Backlog
• Analyze market trends
• Develop go-to-market strategy
• Manage budget and ROI
• Align with Marketing and Sales objectives and KPIs
• Translate the roadmap into a prioritized product backlog
• Manage the product line life cycle from strategic planning to tactical activities
• Analyze and improve product-use processes internally and at clients
• Maintain third-party relationships with Microsoft, telecoms service providers, and client-integrated systems
• Manage product rollout to new clients and increase adoption of new features among existing clients
• Write well-formed user stories with acceptance criteria
• Prepare and present target deliverables in Scrum ceremonies
• Maintain product documentation and training materials, including user guides
• Support customer engagement through demonstrations and onboarding documentation
• Manage UATs and prioritize UAT feedback with stakeholders
• Act as the primary point of contact between clients and the development team

Product Owner

• Lead the development, management, and evolution of the product
• Define and execute product strategy and plans with cross-functional teams
• Drive business growth and delivery of revenue and profitability objectives
• Contribute to product portfolio strategy and own the complete product portfolio
• Drive product innovation and develop end-to-end portfolio strategies
• Maximise existing customer bases and acquire new customers
• Manage product portfolio and pricing strategies
• Manage the product lifecycle and execute go-to-market and in-life strategies
• Understand customer needs, market trends, and competitor activity
• Drive product uptake through engagement with the sales organisation
• Shape sales initiatives and route-to-market execution nationally
• Own product go-to-market strategy and value propositions
• Drive revenue, margin, EBIT, Opex, new business, and resign TCV targets
• Drive sales cadence and pipeline management
• Inform annual product targets and remain accountable for product revenue
• Ensure products and partners deliver appropriate services and service levels
• Inform price monitoring and participate in price optimisation
• Manage strategic internal and external stakeholders and build market partnerships
• Collaborate with Vodacom Business management, sales teams, segments, and channels to drive profitable growth
• Provide specialised and technical support to internal and external stakeholders
• Champion cross-functional collaboration and superior customer experience

• Support the Senior Product Manager in driving and executing Root’s product vision
• Help evolve the Root platform into a world-leading insurance operating system
• Gain insight into clients’ business objectives and develop platform solutions that support them
• Empathise with business users, including sales and claims agents, supervisors, data ops managers, and financial managers
• Coordinate collaboration among product, engineering, design, and business units
• Drive feature rollouts with support from product management, marketing, and client services
• Specify features with functional, technical, and design scope for engineering
• Drive delivery of quarterly squad objectives and raise blockers early
• Ensure features are user-tested and feedback is returned to engineering
• Ensure client-facing features include help centre guides, rollout communications, and developer documentation
• Execute monthly rollouts bundling shipped features with communications, documentation, and client-facing materials
• Maintain a clear product vision and roadmap focused on business-user requirements
• Solicit and process stakeholder and user feedback into the roadmap and product process
• Collaborate with marketing to turn new features into blog articles, LinkedIn posts, and prospect-facing collateral

Junior Product Manager

• Implement and lead delivery of strategic products
• Ensure the business remains at the leading edge of technology
• Contribute across the technology stack, including databases, development infrastructure supporting continuous deployment, and native apps
• Remain abreast of industry standards to identify new product opportunities
• Continuously review product processes to identify real and potential risks
• Review product processes to identify enhancements
• Manage relationships with critical stakeholders, including technology, operations, and channels, to ensure optimal end-to-end product delivery

Senior Product Manager – Core Transactional VAS

• Gather information, create business cases and prioritise projects and enhancements
• Implement product changes in close conjunction with development teams
• Create a functional product roadmap aligned to business strategy and commercial rationale
• Manage and critically assess business change requests within the product
• Drive product backlogs and prioritisation alongside development teams
• Communicate progress and goals to stakeholders and management
• Use product metrics and data to justify projects and enhancements
• Relate enhancement and project outcomes to key metrics and commercial rationale
• Develop user stories, requirements documents, use cases, personas, white papers, demos and presentations
• Lead, coach and inspire product managers and specialists
• Build and maintain relationships with executive leadership, Product Owners, external partners and regulatory bodies

Product Manager jobs in South Africa

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