Product Manager – Supply Chain Outbound needed at takealot.com

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop and execute the product roadmap for supply chain software projects.
• Working cross-functionally with engineering, design, operations, and executive teams to bring about product enhancements that will move the needle on our key performance indicators. 
• Working with business stakeholders to understand their strategy, requirements, and priorities in order to translate their needs into projects for engineering teams.
• Defining and tracking the metrics and data that will inform all decisions on features and functionality. 
• Analyzing and understanding project scope and core objectives, eliciting low-level functional requirements and documenting these requirements such that detailed technical specifications can be compiled by engineering teams.
• Collaborate with technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Be proactive in ensuring that the engineering and QA teams understand the requirements by participating in backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
• Set timelines, drive project schedules and lead cross-functional development teams from design through to release.
• Monitor metrics and dashboards to make sure products are performing up to standard.
• Take ownership of managing any direct reports and mentoring them in their career development.
• Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field and a minimum of 5 years of Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
• If you don’t have a Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field, an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
• Proficiency in basic SQL querying and coding is required at a minimum.
• Experience in a supply chain or logistics environment (i.e. physical movement of goods) would be a big advantage.