Product Manager – Homechoice (Southern Suburbs (Cape)) needed at HomeChoice Holdings Limited

Description

• Homechoice is a leading South African homeware retailer. For almost 40 years we’ve helped our customers create beautiful homes they love with an innovative range of quality products they can afford.
• The Product Manager manages a portfolio of varying complexities of products, services, or channels assuming end-to-end responsibility for the product process and product scope. You will  responsible for defining the strategy and vision ensuring that it aligns to the overarching organizational goals and objectives. You will drive innovation and business growth utilizing continuous exploration to define the benefit hypothesis, business processes and solution intent artifacts for program epics, in collaboration with business owners, business/solution analysts and solution architects.

What you will love doing in this role

• Translate strategy into operational initiatives with measurable business outcomes and targets.
• Represent key business areas in evaluating, prioritizing, and implementing technology solutions to support’s the business objectives of revenue growth.
• Collaborate with development teams to produce technically focused user stories, enabling them to deliver value in an effective manner.
• Provide a support function to scrum teams by managing the product backlog, facilitating daily stand ups and go lives.
• Responsible for the Product Roadmap, the PM takes a consultative and collaborative approach when it comes to lining up the respective Feature releases for each value stream.
• Manage a portfolio of varying complexities of products, assuming end-to-end responsibility for the product process and given product domain or scope.
• Manage stakeholders, ensuring consensus is reached between delivering short term gains vs investing in long term strategic goals.
• Identify and drive continuous improvements against the key credit metrics.
• Produce wireframes and work with creative teams to define the UI.

Requirements
What you’ll need to do this role

• Bachelors Degree (3 years) / NQF level 7
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience as a Product Owner. (CSPO qualification advantageous)
• Retail credit and/or Fintech experience essential, with a recent large, successful credit system implementation advantageous
• In-depth knowledge of agile process and principles
• Familiar with API development and cross-platform integrations, experience with bots and automation tools highly advantageous

What we will love about you

• Strong organisational and project management skills, able to work well under pressure where multiple tasks are needing to be run concurrently
• Comfortable leading solution design processes and champion / challenger testing with customers
• Experience with designing and implementing functionality across multiple systems, including web-based, and mobile solutions
• Data oriented, using data / analytics to make informed decisions
• Excellent problem solving and decision-making skill; deals well with ambiguity in fast-paced environment
• Clear sense of accountability and ownership

Behaviours we love

• Wow my customer
• Walk in my customers’ shoes
• Deliver on my promises
• Deliver insight-led solutions my customers need
• Treat the business as my own
• Take accountability
• Be curious, creative & explore opportunities
• Do it right & at the right time
• Play as a team
• Be helpful
• Be inclusive
• Find the fun