Product Manager

2 weeks ago

Northern Suburbs, South Africa PEP Full time

Have you wondered how South Africa’s largest single brand retailer manages to offer its customers the most sought after products at the best prices? Has it been a career dream to work for a large organization that is known to be the friendliest retail brand; winning local and international awards for innovations and the use of state of the art systems and technology?

Do you want to join PAXI, a leading parcel service business? Is your next career move to join a team that constantly challenges itself to learn, grow and be agile? A team that works collaboratively with multiple internal and external stakeholders.

Has it been a career dream to be mentored by people centred leaders who create a space where you can be heard and encouraged to bring your innovative & critical thinking skills to the fore? If this resonates with you then this newly available opportunity has been crafted for you.

Purpose of the job

Setting the roadmap and prioritising the development demand list through understanding the business strategy and objectives, the customer needs, and technology.

Ensure that the business systems and business processes incorporate industry standards and best practices; and oversee business process and technology support to users.

Key Responsibilities
- Strategically drive new system and product development
- System Improvement delivery / Project delivery
- Oversee Support Service to the business
- Training /Knowledge acquisition and transfer
- Leadership
- Ad hoc Responsibilities

Required Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
- Industrial Engineering Degree, Product Owner or Scrum certification (Beneficial)
- 5 years of experience in a similar or Solutions Manager role
- Business acumen experience in retail or logistics environments. (Beneficial)
- Project exposure to implement and design solutions in business
- Facilitate training sessions/presentations
- Above average computer literacy - MS Office & MS Project / Google Workspace
- Curious mindset / self-learner
- Resource Recruitment and on-boarding
- Leadership skills
- Project management skills
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Hands on experience with software development and documentation
- Scrum and user stories with acceptance criteria for Agile
- Business Requirements Document to Functional Requirements Document for Waterfall projects
- Able to explain technical details
- Solid foundation in information and business system design
- Able to take responsibility and be self motivated
- Able to develop ideas and share them clearly (in non-technical terms when required)
- Able to explain solution trade-offs (in non-technical terms when required)
- Able to work within a team
- Analytical mindset and good problem-solving skills.
- Will respond in a supportive and patient and friendly / approachable manner (passionate)
- Can support more than one business process in a system or one process over more than 1 system

The following will be an advantage:

- SQL
- Google Cloud Platform
- Google Data Studio
- Experience using Jira
- Understand and translate business requirements into quality system solutions that ensure optimal system performance and stability and provide support and continuous improvement.

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