Product Manager

Sabi in South Africa is a category agnostic B2B trading platform and network for B2B & E2E customers focused on accelerating the velocity of commerce by enabling stakeholders access to supply demand and or Finance.

Through utilizing our platform and network we engage facilitate and grow our customer s businesses by connecting the relevant parties. In this we offer transparency facilitation deal structuring to ensure better deal flow.

• Lead as Product Manager in the South African Market as well as enable activities within a Product Owner capacity when necessary
  
• Understand and research customer needs market trends and potential partnerships basing it on cost vs revenue perspectives.
  
• Translate and collaborate with the Head of Product on the Product Strategy (for SA) and concisely articulate it into detailed requirements and prototypes.
  
• Dive product and businessplanning processes across different business units in the company
  
• Collaborate with business analysts and stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements. Translate business requirements into technical specifications and design solutions accordingly.
  
• Ensure that product deadlines are met and the relevant stakeholders are always kept up to date on interest elements.
  
• Create and maintain a high standard of reliability quality and usability during product phases and ensure measurements are adhered to.
  
• Strategize and derive gotomarket plans with the Head Product and Product Marketing/commercial teams.
  
• Report and measure product launch success through qualitative and quantitative metrics.
  
• Actively coordinate prepare and manage up product aligned business strategy for execution.
  
• Support the build and delivery through to our delivery teams in building a range of products & services that could include responsive digital apps APIs and data solutions to drive our digital strategy.
  

Requirements

Special Skills and Qualifications

• 710 years experience in Product Management building Fintech Ecommerce Online Marketplace products. Experience with earlystage product is of great advantage.
  
• Strong understanding of the South African use case user experience and market dynamics
  
• A bachelors degree in any related field of study such as Business Marketing Computer Science / Engineering.
  
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and translate business needs to technical requirements.
  
• Demonstrated skill in Product Management with tools and technology to manage effectively prioritize and strategize.
  
• Experience working facilitating and leading in multidisciplinary teams consisting of Designers Engineers Business Product and Marketing
  
• Strong business acumen and business analysis abilities
  
• Experience in launching Digital and Physical products in emerging markets.
  
• Understanding the application of human centered and service design concepts and assist in delivery facilitation with close collaboration with the UX/UI team.
  
• Fluency in technology and emerging trends in the African context to drive adoption inspiration to help product and technology teams grow.
  

Person Specification:

• Motivated by the mission of Vumele
  
• Pragmatic with quantitative and analytical ability and attention to detail
  
• Driven independent thinker and leader who can juggle multiple projects simultaneously with fastchanging priorities
  
• High level of integrity and dependability with a strong sense of urgency.
  
• A focus on execution. Willing and able to get hands dirty.
  
• Flexibility to roll up your sleeves and attack problems and projects as they arise where you will need to set out a clear structure method and outcomes yourself.
  

Benefits

• Rapid Career Growth
  
• Annual Training Budget
  
• Opportunity to work in other global office.
  
• Fullyfunded Team Bonding Activities