Senior Manager Product Development

**Job Requistion**

117897

**Job Location**

Sandton

Career Stream

Product

Leadership Pipeline

Manage of Managers

**Job Purpose**

To manage (end to end) the strategy; planning; organising; negotiating; staffing directing and controlling of all aspects of solutions, products, projects or programmes for a portfolio in ensuring the successful implementation of solutions and products and to realise the business cluster strategy. Manage performance of solution / product in line with business goals. Provides expert advice and counsel to functional/ and non-functional user personnel and project teams on the most complex aspects of integration of logical groupings of product capabilities. To facilitate agreed solution and ensure the solution meets business requirements and business cases targets

**Responsibilities**:

- Manage solution performance and iterate forward - Solution Dashboard and Business Case Tracking
- Identify product and market opportunities in collaboration with other areas - Find best in class solutions
- Leverage emerging innovation to pilot, prototype and incubate new solution
- Capability roadmap owner for Solution / Product - Own major feature development (EPIC owner)
- Manage change backlog on existing products and iterative changes
- Assist in defining the operational business requirements of the solution (KPI'S, SLA's processes and procedures and reporting) through translating organisational strategy into functional strategy and assigning accountability to relevant stakeholders
- Effectively manage the delivery of products/ services to the stakeholders by establishing governance forums and by understanding, assessing and managing escalated risks associated with solutions, products, programmes and projects
- Ensure optimal organising of environment by specifying the nature of capacity requirements in alignment with strategic priority and by actively managing the capacity of the project managers in the team and negotiate where capacity constraints occur
- Ensure end to end design is aligned to architecture road maps by understanding the landscape and through regular engagement with relevant stakeholders
- Ensure effective optimisation of systems, processes and technology by doing route cause analysis and taking corrective measurement and ensuring standards defined per technology with regard to integrations are adhered to
- Take responsibility for implementation of programme and project governance that aligns to project methodologies, processes and project disciplines
- Continuously encourage customer centricity by defining/developing tiered SLA's in order to improve delivery and cost efficiencies
- Ensure optimal team delivery by considering and making amendments to processes, structures, operating models and business plans
- Ensure transformational target are met through consideration of targets during the staff recruitment, retention and training process and utilising suppliers listed on the preferred supplier list for department
- Contribute to a culture conducive to the achievement of transformation goals and support business strategies that improve the corporate image by ensuring self, managers and team participation in Nedbank culture building initiatives
- Participate and ensure managers encourage staff to participate and support corporate social responsibility initiatives for the achievement of business strategy
- Ensure issues raised in culture survey are addressed and results are improved by ensuring action plans are created
- Deliver a world class service through others by ensuring a client centric culture through required interventions. Identify areas of resource inefficiencies and promote optimisation through promoting multi-skilling and addressing capacity gaps by reviewing and improving work processes
- Manage branch budget (recoveries of staff incl) through responsible budget planning and management and by driving efficiencies
- Enhance the credibility of the function by reviewing project metrics and by meeting with the project managers to give direction to project execution

Essential Qualifications - NQF Level
- Matric / Grade 12 / National Senior Certificate
- Advanced Diplomas/National 1st Degrees

**Minimum Experience Level**
- 5 - 7 years’ experience in an product development of which at least 2 years in a feeder area to this role - Digital / Innovation / AGILE / SAFe
- Secured lending experience will be advantageous

Preferred Qualification

Bachelor Degree in Digital / Technology / Business

**Technical / Professional Knowledge**
- Communication Strategies
- Diversity management
- Employee training/development
- Governance, Risk and Controls
- Principles of project management
- Relevant regulatory knowledge
- Stakeholder management
- Strategic planning
- Management information and reporting principles, tools and mechanisms
- Client Service Management
- **_Please contact the Nedbank Recruiting Team at
+27 860 555 566
_