Director : Auto & Insurance Solutions

5 days ago


Randburg, Gauteng, South Africa TransUnion Full time

Job title: Director: Auto & Insurance Solutions

Job Location: Gauteng, Johannesburg

Deadline: April 21, 2025

Overall Responsibility

  • End-to-end responsibility covering product strategy/innovation, feature requirements and definition, GTM, commercialization, ongoing product health and maintenance; leads cross-functional teams and ensures alignment across all stakeholder groups.
  • Owns product vision, business prioritization and roadmap; develops business cases and advocates for investment as needed, which includes partnering with Market (revenue) and IT (investment) teams.
  • Spends time with clients capturing VOC and applying design thinking principles to understand their problems and needs; works with product development teams writing comprehensive product epics and defining solution intent and high-level capabilities.
  • Participates in Agile ceremonies, influences PI Objectives and Release content via prioritized Features and Enablers. Has scope of authority for setting PI priorities; establishes feature acceptance criteria and jointly accepts as done with Product Owner.
  • Thought leader and evangelist for both external and internal audiences.
  • Applies a commercial, user-centric mindset to build robust, market-back GTM strategies that are based on developing targeted needs-based market segments; informs pricing.
  • Ensures the successful roll-out of new products to Market & Sales teams, supports the development and delivery of comprehensive product training.
  • Monitors and analyzes product financials, KPIs, customer feedback, and the competitive landscape to identify gaps, weaknesses and opportunities in any part of product delivery.
  • Manages overall product health including the business prioritization of backlog, ongoing product support and product sunset strategies.
  • Shares accountability for the overall revenue performance.

Impact You'll Make:

How you will contribute

  • Develop market-back product strategies grounded in understanding of customer needs, current and anticipated market landscape and TU capabilities.
  • Deliver commercially successful products and solutions that achieve broad adoption within identified segments and that meet/exceed revenue and profitability targets.
  • Articulate globally connected product strategies.
  • Increases market perception of TransUnion as a market leader and thought leader by generating and presenting industry and client insights, developing thought leadership and leveraging speaker platforms.
  • Delivers monthly forecasting reports and dashboards that provide clarity and transparency across KPIs in product, sales, & IT to monitor product adoption and GTM execution.

What you will bring to the role

  • 12+ years of leadership experience in Product Management; demonstrated success launching and driving adoption of new products while leading cross-functional product teams.
  • Strategic thinker with experience building net-new products as well as adapting existing products to create new/increased value.
  • Experience writing, presenting and defending investment/business cases.
  • Problem-solving, design-thinking, customer-centric mindset; highly proactive with a positive "can do" attitude.
  • Experience developing product roadmaps for data and/or technical solutions in a B2B environment.
  • Strong communicator, cross-functionally and at all levels of the organization with demonstrated ability to create followership.
  • Relationship-oriented, strong collaborator that is adept at leading through influence; experience thriving in complex, matrix organizations.
  • Strong people leader with experience managing teams, developing and growing talent.
  • Experience working across global markets.
  • Intellectual curiosity and versatility.
  • Bachelor's degree required; MBA or other Master's degree.
  • Experience working in Agile development methodologies preferred.
  • Previous consulting experience preferred.
  • Auto industry experience will be an advantage.
  • Insurance industry experience will be an advantage.
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