Product Manager

WE ARE RECRUITING!

_Title: Product Manager _

Location: South Africa (remote role)

CTC: R80 000.00 pm

1st and 2nd Level Reporting: Senior Product Manager and Technology Executive

_Industry: Property / Real Estate _

Main Purpose of the Role:

• The Product Manager will be responsible for leading the organization through strategic product and service decisions. You will be responsible for analysing market competitive conditions and assisting in designing a product vision that delivers a unique value proposition, based on our customer demands.
• This role will play an important part in the business across strategic, technical, and financial lines. The business will rely on you to develop new products or improve existing products that address needs more effectively as part of the product life cycle management process. An important part of this role is to work cross functionally, being able to collaborate with relevant stakeholders to meet strategic and tactical business objectives.
• This opportunity will allow you to be involved in the next phase of the business’s evolution within the Proptech space, encompassing technical, commercial, operational, process improvement and customer support initiatives, amongst others, all supporting the underlying products.
• You will join the dynamic Product team within the fast-changing Technology unit, responsible for looking after the entire product life cycle from concept to launch. Your skills and expertise will assist and guild the business to successfully execute product iterations against well-defined road maps.

What you Need to Succeed:
Qualifications and Experience:

• Minimum Degree in Commerce, Economics.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in Product development, where product design and testing are the main requirements. Ideally within the Digital environment.
• Demonstrated stakeholder management at all levels of the organization along with effective prioritization, time management and willingness to work both independently and across teams to guide the product iteration process from concept, financial and market analysis, project management, development, launch and product performance.

Technical Competencies:

• Research Aptitude and Management _
• Establishes data research methods and techniques that are used across the organization to define and assess needs; and identify new ways of engaging with our customers and adding value while staying abreast of direct and indirect competitor movements and emerging trends.
• CRM Software Development _
• Business Analysis and Process Management_
• Ability to research and investigate a problem and solve that problem by decomposing the problem into addressable sub-problems, for both business and customer alike, through creative problem solving, taking a holistic view of the situation, and identifying and evaluating opportunities for business system improvement. Done through gathering system documentation, user manuals, with the key focus on analysing the business’s needs and requirements to implement organizational change or strategic planning and policy development.
• Enforcement of this policy by educating various stakeholders on its relevance to the product lifecycle and where required, constantly iterate and improve the process with emphasis on efficiency and execution for the business.
• Product Development_
• A cyclical process that requires data research and analysis to turn ideas into recommendable and viable products that are technically feasible with clear strategies to monetize based on perceive value within the addressable market.
• Develops and implements a process to document product specification, communicate said specifications across various stakeholders, manage existing product roadmaps through all stages of its execution, record product performance, develop and test prototypes along with developing pricing strategies specific to the categories of existing and new products/ services.
• Project Management_
• Capability includes the project management of smaller individual projects as defined in the roadmap and per high priority business requirements (when applicable), that may be run by a small project team lead by one person but with multiple touchpoints across various stakeholders, with emphasis on tracking, execution, and accountability. Involves planning, time estimation, risk analysis and reduction of one specific project.

Behavioural Traits:

• Analytical _
• Systematically examines, parses, and evaluates data or information by breaking it into its component parts to uncover their interrelationships to establish trends, dependencies between systems to achieve a product solution, changes and to identify risks to make meaningful business decisions.
• Data-driven _
• Be prepared to quantify, qualify, and act on empirical evidence and data rather than on speculation, personal experience, or intuition. Ability to use the data not only for identifying existing