Product Manager

Takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a talented Product Manager to join the Catalogue team in Cape Town. 

You will be responsible for defining and executing a Product Roadmap that strategically balances commercial growth objectives with robust compliance and risk management frameworks. This role requires navigating complex regulatory landscapes to ensure our merchant division operates with total security and excellence. We are a young, dynamic, hyper-growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with the integrity to maintain this critical balance!

Think you've been challenged before? Think again!

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

Your mission, should you choose to accept it:

• Gain a deep understanding of the Catalogue division in terms of its strategic objectives, business processes, available tools & systems, and relevant external best practice benchmarks
• Work closely with the Product Lead for Catalogue to define and maintain a Product Roadmap that delivers on technical developments required to support the Catalogue Division in achieving its strategic objectives
• Measure the success of developments via the tracking of relevant metrics 
• Take ownership of improving these metrics by identifying and prioritising appropriate roadmap projects
• Define the strategic business requirements for technical systems development related to specific projects prioritised on the Product Roadmap, using relevant data to support decision-making
• Translate business requirements into functional and technical IT user stories and project specifications, by ensuring that projects are broken down into phases to deliver immediate business benefit
• End-to-end project management of technical projects throughout the entire product development lifecycle – setting timelines, driving project schedules, leading cross-functional development teams from design through to release, and managing the production launch
• Manage all stakeholder communications - to ensure appropriate input on the Product Roadmap prioritisation and communication on its execution
• Manage the engineering backlog via appropriate sprint prioritisation and planning