Product Manager
1 week ago
Takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Product Manager in Business Intelligence to join our team in Cape Town.
We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us
This position reports to the Head of Product: Fulfilment (Supply Chain & Logistics).
Your responsibilities will include the following:
- Create and facilitate the delivery of the Business Intelligence roadmap for one or more of the Takealot Group's key focus areas:
- Supply Chain and Logistics
- Work closely with relevant business units to identify opportunities for driving meaningful business results through data solutions and then work with stakeholders to prioritize projects for roadmap inclusion.
- Work closely with product and engineering to ensure the right data is collected to produce relevant business insights.
- Collaborate with data teams: data engineering (data collection), analytical engineering (data marts/models), and business intelligence (dashboarding/reporting) to drive end-to-end data products for this domain.
- Programme manage large-scale BI data/tool migration initiatives, working with multiple data and engineering teams to meet agreed timelines.
- Validate existing reports and data sets and resolve issues with reports and performance indicators as identified.
- Influence the supply chain and logistics roadmap by presenting data-informed recommendations.
- Perform exploratory data analysis and hypothesis testing on operational and customer behaviour.
- Assist in the development of input metrics that influence your vertical's "North Star" metric.
- Become an effective evangelist of data within the business vertical you serve; helping stakeholders understand the capabilities and potential value of data.
- Balance longer-term product vision and goals with short-term wins.
Attributes Required:
- Ability to distill technical subjects to their fundamental concepts, facilitating effective exchange of ideas between business stakeholders and software development teams.
- Strong commercial acumen for understanding factors driving business success in a fast-paced e-commerce environment.
- Comfortable with data deep-diving, individually and collaboratively, to generate product-level insights.
- Proactive in exploring your problem space and surroundings, in support of the product vision and roadmap of your team.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to reduce uncertainty and set actionable deliverables.
- Drive to actively unlearn and relearn mental models based on supporting data.
Experience and Qualifications:
- Product experience:
- 7+ years of related and transferable experience or 3+ years of product management experience.
- Experience leading and executing cross-functional projects, preferably in high-traffic environments.
- Familiarity and proficiency with agile methods and tools to support project management in a timeline-sensitive environment.
- High accountability for meeting deadlines and ship dates.
- Preferably, a proven track record in delivering data insights products and subsequent maturing iterations at scale.
- Data experience:
- A solid understanding of data engineering and analytics fundamentals, allowing you to understand and earn the respect of experienced data engineers.
- Experience with Google Sheets and/or Microsoft Excel at an advanced level.
- Experience with MySQL or PostgreSQL, and BigQuery or similar technology, preferably in a high-load environment.
- Qualifications:
- Preferably, a Bachelor's Degree in Management Science, Engineering, Statistics, Data Science or Computer Science.
- Qualifications:
Let's talk about life @ Takealot Group
- The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs.
- No doors: We aren't fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments.
- Remote working: Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
- Mentorship programme: Learn from the best.
- Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
- Good times: Regular social events and out-of-office activities.
- Staff discount: Millions of products across 28 departments.
- Birthday leave: Enjoy your day off.
- Right tools, right job: Work on the latest tech.
- Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance.
- Free parking: No more long walks to your desk.
Like what you see?
If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
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