Job Description

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS/EXPERIENCE (REQUIRED FOR THE JOB)

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Commerce, or Information Systems
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in Product Ownership, Business analysis and software delivery.
• 3 years’ experience in a Product Manager role
• Relevant Agile certification required (SAFe, A-CSM, ICAgile)
• Product Owner and Leading SAFe certification
• Knowledge of Kanban/Lean desirable
• Knowledge and experience in using tracking and collaboration tools such as Jira, Miro and TFS
• Knowledge and experience with typically used Agile techniques such as User Story mapping, ATDD, TDD, etc.
• Knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks like Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile (SAFe) etc.
• Commitment to deliver the agreed work through the team and relevant stakeholders.
• Understand the value of team metrics and ask them to be tracked to drive team performance.
• Stakeholder Management, Negotiation & Communication Skills.
• Clarity on delivering clear, prioritised stories with acceptance criteria. Aligning these to Features.
• Manages Scrum teams to transfer the project/product vision to design, development, and delivery. Guides the team through the product backlog toward building the right product, considering the vision, planning, and budgets of the business, customers, or use.

Responsibilities

• Digital Strategy/Transformational Projects Execution
• Oversee digital assets and orchestrate how the company can successfully leverage them to gain and maintain a competitive advantage.
• Product and Solution Development
• Take overall responsibility for designing, developing, and delivering the strategic plan for product development for a significant area of the business.
• Project Team Management
• Lead large project teams (or multiple small- to medium-sized teams); define the project vision, communicate the necessary outcomes, and provide guidance to achieve these outcomes; coordinate team actions across project activities; coordinate the flow of additional team members on and off the team, as needed; and build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Digital Vision and Strategy
• Define and set the digital strategy, working with both internal and external stakeholders to build and communicate the strategic importance of digital while aligning with broader organizational strategy.
• Agile Release Planning
• Plan and replan software releases for multiple related business-critical programs as they are produced to ensure timely updates and to deliver the planned benefits as early as possible in the project or program.
• Agile Backlog Management
• Review the backlog of work for a business-critical program and reprioritize the work and the deployment of project resources to reduce costs and increase the value of the work delivered to the business.
• Product Management
• Take responsibility for all aspects of a life cycle of a group of products, including long- and short-term development and marketing. Stay abreast of trends in the marketplace to ensure the products’ competitive position.
• Horizon Scanning
• Identify new external developments and/or emerging issues within an area of technology or business function and evaluate their potential impact on, or usefulness to, the organization.
• Project Benefit Realization
• Lead the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure that intended business benefits are realized across a program.
• Culture of Innovation
• Define the execution plan to disseminate innovative capabilities across the businesses, helping people develop these competencies and enabling them to innovate through solutions such as idea generation platforms, jam sessions, and hackathons. 
• Project Risk and Issue Management
• Ensure that risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints are managed appropriately at project level. Where risks or issues threaten delivery of the project, develop and agree on recovery plans.
• Application Software Road Map
• Define and maintain a roadmap to facilitate complex application software development and ensure the development work is prioritized in line with business requirements.
• Performance Management
• Manage and report on performance within the department or area of responsibility; set appropriate performance objectives for direct reports and hold individuals accountable for achieving them; take appropriate corrective action where necessary to ensure the achievement of annual business objectives.
• Personal Capability Building
• Act as subject matter expert in an area of technology, policy, regulation, or operational management for the team and beyond in the function. Maintain external accreditations and in-depth understanding of current and emerging technologies, external regulation, and industry best practices through continuing professional development, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

Skills

• Adaptive Thinking, Agile Project Management, Change Management, Executing Plans, Managing Stakeholder Expectations, Policies & Procedures, Policy Development, Product Development Management, Project Communications Management, Project Life Cycle Management, Project Performance Management (PM), Project Quality Assurance, Project Scope Management

Competencies

• Action Oriented
• Balances Stakeholders
• Business Insight
• Cultivates Innovation
• Decision Quality
• Develops Talent
• Drives Engagement
• Drives Results

Education

• NQF Level 9 – Masters