Junior Product Manager: Facilities

, a leading South African online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Junior Product Manager to join our Facilities and Network Product team in Cape Town.

We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity to join us.  

Think you've been challenged before? Think again

• Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Code alongside industry leaders and up-skill in record time. 
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: and Mr D. We like to promote from within: Here's your chance. 

This position reports to the Facilities and Network Product Manager

Your responsibilities will include:

• Determine what data needs to be gathered to inform decision making around product requirements
• Conduct on-the-ground analysis of processes to make informed decisions
• Conduct Gap analysis on current and potential future systems  
• Gather and use quantitative and qualitative data to help formulate product requirements
• Extract key insights from data for post-launch impact analysis
• Create, design and document reporting metrics to measure pre and post-launch impact/efficiency
• Suggest ideas to solve customer challenges and validate them in close collaboration with UX and relevant stakeholders
• Clearly communicate requirements to UX/UI design resources
• Work with design resources to finalize the customer experience for a particular feature
• Take end-to-end ownership of product development including documentation, implementation, testing, launch, and success metric monitoring
• Facilitate backlog grooming and planning ceremonies
• Clarify project requirements and create acceptance criteria with QA and Engineering 
• Perform pre-launch user acceptance testing (UAT)
• Collaborate with technical teams to document high-level non-functional and functional requirements
• Apply understanding of system architecture to help shape functional requirements
• Ensure relevant stakeholders for a project are correctly identified, consulted and informed
• Have a deep understanding of core stakeholder pain-points / objectives related to a project and long term strategic vision
• Manage relationships with stakeholders, related to a specific project(s), including obtaining senior stakeholder buy-in, approval and sign off for requirements and relevant project status communications
• Take initiative to identify critical problems and drive solutions in collaboration with relevant stakeholders
• Understand the product vision and strategy and how this impacts parallel teams and work streams 
• Contribute to the roadmap to execute the product strategy

Attributes required:

• Passion for understanding unique, ambiguous, complex problems and driving high quality, innovative, clean solutions
• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
• Strong project management and communication skills
• Ability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally 
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to verbalize, visualize and communicate outcomes or technical concepts in a clear, concise manner to various stakeholder groups
• Good technical understanding of software development processes
• Good business analysis skills - analytical and able to use data to make decisions
• Highly structured thinker with strong attention to detail
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including technical and non-technical individuals

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field with at least 3 years of business analysis experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities) OR 1 year of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
• If the degree/diploma qualification requirement isn't met, at least 6 years of business analysis experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities) or 4 years of product management experience or exposure (through projects or responsibilities)
• Experience working with data analytics tools (e.g. Excel, SQL, BigQuery, DBeaver)
• Experience working with wireframing tools is preferable
• Experience in working with Android applications
• Design Thinking experience will be highly advantageous
• Experience in the Retail, Logistics or Supply Chain industries would be advantageous 

Let's talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs. Go on, be the master of your own destiny.
• No doors: We aren't fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments. See someone you like? High five, collab and make something great.
• Remote working: Love water cooler chats and working from home? offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme: We aren't kidding when we say the people with the best people win. Now's your chance to be one of the best, by learning from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Share ideas and grow with global industry leaders who are all just a Slack message away. Love to learn? Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera, and more.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at during regular social events and out-of-office activities (think hikes, think mini golf, think good times).
• Staff discount. Millions of products across 28 departments. What more could you ask for?
• Birthday leave: Cake Day all the way. Enjoy your day off - you deserve it. 
• Right tools, right job: Mac or Windows, two monitors or one. Whatever your preference, you'll work on the latest tech, of the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free, anytime, anywhere. 
• Tech stack (for days): ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and all things machine learning. 
• Free parking: No more 5km fun runs to your desk (unless you want to). 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.