Lead Product Manager

2 weeks ago

Cape Town, South Africa AnyVan Ltd Full time

AnyVan makes moving anything anywhere, easier, more affordable and greener for everyone. With Over 8 million customers across the UK and Europe since our launch over a decade ago, we’re proud to be known as the largest, fastest growing tech company in the logistics industry.

Like many popular marketplaces, we’re asset light - i.e., we don’t own any vehicles or employ any drivers. We work with our transport partners and use technology to disrupt the entire delivery and moving process to optimise the most efficient journeys.

Sustainability is a core part of AnyVan’s mission. We’re proud to say we’ve achieved carbon-neutral status on all our transport moves, and we won’t stop here

**So if you want to move your career forward we'd love to hear from you**

AnyVan is on a mission to create the world's most efficient logistics technology, harnessing technology and data to acutely optimise consumer pricing, supplier rates and vehicle routing.

We're looking for a lead product manager in our Cape Town office to work on a range of exciting projects.

Our product teams work across consumer, Transport Partners (TP’s), Routing and Optimisation, and Pricing solutions.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Create and maintain a product strategy which aligns with our business goals
- Create and own the road-map, timing and delivery
- Develop a deep understanding of business needs and create effective solutions
- Use your strong leadership, organisational and execution skills to establish a shared vision between product, engineering and key stakeholders
- Define and measure metrics and highlight the impact of changes to ensure that business benefits have been achievedInspire and motivate a team of engineers and other cross-functional representatives
- Simplify complexity and identify high impact opportunities
- Generate insights from data, research and analysis to inform product strategy
- To be able to analyse data for impact to create cases for business opportunities.

**Skills and experience we think will help you be successful in the role**:

- Solid experience in a product management role managing the full product lifecycle preferably in a scale-up technology business
- Highly commercial in approach and outlook
- Be comfortable with complex data sets and uncertainiy in the data to identify gaps and key messages to drive investment
- Demonstrated ability to deliver continuously improving products through a test, learn and iterate approach
- Experience working on data/engines that focus on pricing solutions
- A strategic thinker and comfortable using data and explaining strategy clearly and concisely, written or verbally
- Collaborative and influential, you can gain buy in from, and manage relationships with multiple stakeholders across technology and business operations
- Able to effectively integrate customer research and feedback to help drive requirements, prioritisation, execution and operation
- Thrive on change and ambiguity and constantly able to take on new challenges
- An understanding of technical architecture and infrastructure would be advantageous

**DE&I**

In our pursuit of fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace, we invite individuals from all backgrounds to join us in our mission. Together, let's create a culture where every voice is heard, every perspective is valued, and every person is empowered to thrive.

Please note if we are able to support visa sponsorship it will be highlighted in the requirements section of the job advert.

**Working Patterns**

We are extremely proud of our culture and believe in the many benefits that being in the office provides - all our roles require regular time in our office in the central business district in Cape Town.

We do not offer fully remote roles but we support hybrid working wherever possible (3 days in office, 2 days from home). However, to meet the needs of our customers and business operations many of our Operational and Commercial roles are fully office based.

**Our Values Are Own, Drive, Deliver**:
**Own - Have fun, get it done**

Work hard, play harder

Satisfaction in results

Do the right thing

**Drive - Progress Over Perfection**

Innovate and disrupt

Curious and adaptable

Work quick, learn quicker

**Deliver - One Team Thinking Big**

Collaborate and communicate

Celebrate wins

Embrace challenges

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