Portfolio Manager Acquiring Services

7 days ago

Midrand, South Africa Vodafone Full time

**Role Purpose**:
The Portfolio Manager represents the business stakeholders and is the voice of the customer guiding individual DevOps teams, responsible for ensuring that the delivery team delivers value to the business according to the outcome vision
Access the full suite of VFS payments products and services, that overlay traditional telco propositions to create value for customers
The Portfolio Manager will identify and recommend a portfolio of innovative acquiring products including QR, integrated POS and Tap on Phone payment methodologies and solutions that best fit requirements and needs of Vodacom customers across Customer and Enterprise business units
Through various stages of the product lifecycle, drive uptake and adoption of acquiring payments products and services across physical and digital channels. Whilst many of these channels already exist, the role requires the development of new channels, digital and physical
Ensure that all acquiring payment products and services delivered are best in class in terms of user experience when bench marked against industry best practices for user experience, both local and international

**Your responsibilities will include**:
Own, drive, and focus the team on delivery of business value and content
Co-ordinate and drive of all activities related to channel integration and go-to-market strategy to ensure that the strategy achieves the set objectives of i.e. profit growth, consumer adoption and expansion of market share
Application of data analytics to design campaigns that drive digital adoption of Vodacom products and services
Develop and define user stories / items and acceptance criteria from the feature and capability roadmap
Rank and prioritize user stories / items and add them to the team backlog for sprint development, conveying a clear vision of what is required to be built
Approve the final release plan and accept all deliverables against defined user stories and acceptance criteria
Analyse and report delivery risks and opportunities, and engage stakeholders for communications and decision-making
Participate in retrospectives to identify improvement opportunities
Acts as single point of business contact for internal and external stakeholders
Manage the financial plan for the delivery team, providing forecasts
To be responsible for regular monthly reporting to all stakeholders on the ongoing performance of payments products and services across the various channels and segments


Bachelor’s Degree Business Administration, Product Management or other related field
A total of eight or more years’ experience of which at least 5 or more years are in the successful delivery in Product Ownership (or equivalent role) across full product lifecycles, from MVP to marketable products in iterations
Experience in successfully Leading and mentoring agile / DevOps teams in Large multi-team environments
Experience in agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), Test Driven Design and Behavioural Driven Design
Experience in successful delivery against financial / resource constraints
Experience with requirements definition and use case modelling
Industry Experience Required
POS Card Acquiring
Tap on phone
QR Payments
Merchant Management ISO/Aggregator
Switching of card transactions
South African tender types
Non Traditional tender types i.e. Loyalty points, mobile money wallets, coupons, vouchers/gifts

The base location for this role is Midrand, Vodacom Campus

The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.
Vodacom is committed to an organizational culture that recognizes, appreciates and values diversity & inclusion.

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