Product Manager

3 weeks ago


Johannesburg, South Africa FirstRand Full time

About us, purpose, experience and qualifications

**about us**:
**purpose**:

- To manage the product planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle by gathering and prioritising product and customer requirements.**experience and qualifications**:

- Minimum Qualification: Relevant Diploma
- Preferred Qualification: Relevant Degree
- Experience Required: 3 to 5 years experience in a similar environment, of which 1 to 2 years ideally at junior (entry level) management level
- Competencies:

- Conceptual and Big Picture Thinking
- Judgement and Decision-Making
- Presentation and Facilitation
- Verbal and Written Communication
- Building the Brand
- Planning and Organising
- Programme and Project Management
- Building Relationships
- Entrepreneurial Drive
- Leading Performance Outcomes
- Product Marketing
- Relevant product and product life-cycle knowledge**additional requirements**:
**responsibilities**:

- Deliver against operational and cost targets
- Prioritise resource allocation to minimise and reduce wastage
- Monitor costs for the financial year according to the operational plan
- Allocats and approvs expenditure
- Review cost reports and resolves or explains variances to the budge
- Identify, control and escalate potential risks that may lead to increased costs
- Manage costs or expenses within approved budget to achieve cost efficiencies
- Provide input into the budgeting process and monitor utilisation for the financial year according to the operational plan
- Produce or review budget reports to make sure they accurately reflect work activity
- Ensure financial documentation is maintained to support accurate record keeping and future legislative requirements
- Escalate potential budget risks that may lead to increased costs or financial lossesÂ
- Present work proposals on planned activities that will require financial resources
- Allocate and approves expenditure
- Collate, analyse and evaluate data and information to forecast expenditure and cash flow trends and make recommendations to improve budget
- Build relationships that allow for the managing of expectations; the sharing of
- knowledge and diverse insights; and the creation of buy-in
- Engage in cross-functional relationships to obtain and to provide work support
- Ensure full understanding of customer needs to deliver a quality service
- Ensure customer service solutions are aligned to the business operational plan; Organisational values and service standards
- Communicate how customer service solution will be implemented and secures buy-in
- Ensure product knowledge and advice is technically accurate and provide customers with relevant information to keep them informed of products and service options
- Ensure resolution of customer queries and complaints timeously and ownership of issues
- Analyse customer feedback to help improve customer service
- Propose ideas to improve customer service
- Deliver customer experience excellence aligned to Organisational values and service standards
- Build professional long-term relationships with customers based on trust that builds the brand
- Collect and interrogate information and feedback to ensure full understanding of customer needs to deliver a quality service
- Provide customers with relevant information to keep them informed of products and service options
- Prepare Business Requirement
- Specifications for new product developments and drive innovation around the product development and product management cycle
- Digitise the customer journey throughout the product lifecycle
- Engage with customers to understand their unique requirements, drive value optimisation and advise best options for product integration and wealth management
- Ensure compliance is adopted in terms of systems and procedures as laid out by organisation and review in response to audit findigns and changes
- Develops an understanding of risks and risk management approaches
- Implement and provide input into the development of governance and compliance procedures and processes within area of specialisation and identify risks
- Educates others and makes suggestions for improvements
- Networks and participates in specialist risk forums where required
- Faciliate the conversion of knowledge and ideas into new or improved products, processes and services
- Manage internal and and external stakeholders awareness of product offerings
- Ensure all processes are followed diligently on new products and any product enhancements
- Ensure Service Level Agreements across
- BU's are achieved and maintained
- Complete and / or review comprehensive product documents such as Business
- Cases, Work Request, Change Request,
- Product information documents and business reports
- Define the go-to-market and pricing strategies for the various products and customer segments
- Engage and leverage with the pricing team for the implementation on annual re-pricing processes and recommend appropriate pricing solutions
- Provide guidelines to


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