Product Manager (Marketplace) @ Takealot Group

Takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a talented Product Manager to join the Marketplace team in Cape Town. You will be responsible for defining and executing a Technical Product Roadmap that delivers projects to support our merchant division in achieving its commercial objectives. 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 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 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 Marketplace division in terms of its strategic objectives, business processes, available tools & systems, and relevant external best practice benchmarks Work closely with the Head of Product for Merchant to define and maintain a Product Roadmap that delivers on technical developments required to support the Marketplace 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… Apply To This Job