Product Manager

**Requisition Details and Talent Acquisition Contact**
- Req: 122288- Lebohang Monate**Cluster & Location**
- Total Business Banking and Retail - Solution Innovation - Trading VP- 135 Rivonia Road, Sandton- Hybrid**Career Stream**
- Project, Process and Product- Leadership Pipeline- Manage Self: Professional

**Job Purpose**
- Solution Innovation is customer centric environment that takes care of the customers when they need the specific banking products. We have a career opportunity for a Product Owner in the Card Acceptance area to create an internal and external product vision and lead product management from scratch. Develop positioning strategies while working with stakeholders and teams throughout the process and be responsible for setting, prioritizing, and evaluating the work generated by a Scrum team. Ensure impeccable features and functionality of the product, to serve the end-user, customer or stakeholders of the product and act as a bridge between customer and scrum team. The role gives you the space to become eager to acquire new skills; skills that will help you to ensure the relevance of our Value Proposition. You will be joining a team that operates in a dynamic, fast paced environment working closely in cross functional teams that require self-motivation, multi-tasking and the ability to work under pressure. You will be amongst a team of great people, magnificent colleagues that are obsessed with getting things done A culture of Customer Centricity, Boldness, Professionality and Resilience.**Responsibilities**:

- Manage the scope and move through iterations
- Assist the Scrum Master to organise Sprint Review Meetings.
- Take lead of scrum teams as the Product Owner
- Provide guidance in mitigating impediments impacting the completion of Release/Sprint Goals
- Develop and maintain, prioritized and manage backlog of user stories for implementation
- Write user stories
- Create and maintain the Product Backlog according to business value or ROI
- Prioritize the features in the Backlog before Sprint and set Sprint goals
- Plan and prioritize product feature backlog and development for the product
- Provide backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
- Develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that it is clearly understood by the development teams
- Act as an ambassador for the product internally and externally, and as the primary technical contact for queries related to the product
- Develop product pricing and positioning strategies
- Lead the planning product release plans and set expectation for delivery of new functionalities
- Build and follow a roadmap
- Provide insights into the user test cases and arrange product testing groups
- Define feature acceptance criteria and test cases
- Manage the user acceptance testing process
- Track progress in a running system, proven to work by passing repeatable tests.
- Drive product launch
- Build and maintain product awareness on all levels among product teams
- Incorporate feature requests into product roadmap
- Develop user stories and define acceptance criteria
- Plan releases and upgrades
- Review solution design plans
- Define product vision, road-map and growth opportunities
- Communicate the Business Requirements to the team
- Work with key stakeholders across the company to ensure successful product releases
- Ensure understanding of the customer experience
- Communicate, negotiate, and resolve conflicting interests between key stakeholders.
- Represent customer needs and priorities to the team
- Facilitate demos and customer feedback sessions
- Conduct Sprint planning and resource estimation
- Prioritize processes and activities
- Participate in the promotion plan development.
- Provide vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements
- Coordinate with other Agile team leaders
- Provide status updates to business leadership
- Follow competitors and the industry and keep track of industry trends
- Support the achievement of the business strategy, objectives and values
- Ensure personal growth and enable effectiveness in performance of roles and responsibilities
- Seek opportunities to improve business processes, models and systems though agile thinking.

**Essential Qualification**
- B Degree: Computer Sciences, IT, Project Management, Business Management / Engineering or related essential.
- SAFe certification would be an advantage

**Minimum Experience Level**
- Min 4 years' experience in a Product Owner role in an Agile Context a must

**Type of exposure**
- Maintained Productive Working Relationships
- Managed work deliverables
- Managed work processes
- Collaborating and networking with stakeholders
- Developing multiple creative solutions in terms of a Great Place to work
- Facilitate Working with a group to identify alternative solutions to a problem
- Networking and building business relationships
- Relation