Product Manager - Overdraft
Date: 3 May 2024
Location: Sandton, GT, ZA
Company: Capitec Bank Ltd
Apply by: 31 May 2024
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Purpose Statement
- To support the Product Head in producing the best product; optimising the product through directing the building and development of the product throughout its life cycle, partnering and collaborating with the Software Development Manager and teams around the sequence/priority in which to build and develop the product.
Education (Minimum)
- Bachelor's Degree
Education (Ideal or Preferred)
- Honours Degree
Knowledge and Experience
Minimum:
Experience:
- At least 8 years’ management experience; senior level product development or product manager/owner
- 5+ years’ experience managing, developing and delivering a product previously.
- Working at tactical and operational levels and providing input into product strategy and business planning.
- Integrating business and technical product segments to achieve objectives, delivery and targets.
- Career experience to include some time in one or more technical roles.
- Communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders across multiple business units.
- Authoring of documents relating to product life cycle including business plans, product roadmap, business cases and requirements and functional specifications.
- Scoping/running usability studies and/or customer research.
- Using data and metrics to test theories, confirm assumptions, and measure success
- Client development and validating products through customer feedback.
- Aligning operational initiatives and/or projects to corporate strategies and objectives
- Achieving goals and objectives through cross functional teams.
- Managing and working with remote / hybrid teams.
- Leading and managing multi-functional teams to deliver
- Business development in a banking/financial landscape
Knowledge:
- Financial acumen sufficient for budget management
- Translation of product strategies into tactical and operational planning
- Systems thinking; able to take a ‘big picture’ view, assess, recommend logical, sound decisions and influence others to achieve objectives.
- Relevant product expertise and process know-how
- Agile product ownership and methodology
- Domain specific knowledge, business insight, understanding of product technology, technical dependencies
- People management principles and techniques
- Stakeholder management principles and practices
- Data-driven approach; analytical and quantitative skills.
- Technologically literate and able to adapt to new technologies
Ideal:
Experience:
- Product development experience in the product domain at management level
- Working with Agile product ownership and methodology
- Of translating and enabling business strategies and objectives into business benefits
- Initiation and implementation of innovative concepts
Knowledge:
- Capitec Way of Work
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of banking (i.e. productivity, profit, efficiency, processes and procedures and client service)
- Continuous improvement best practices (Lean, 6-Sigma, Theory of constraints, PDCA, etc.)
- Process mapping and process improvements techniques
Skills
- Analytical Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Commercial Thinking Skills
- Communications Skills
- Interpersonal & Relationship management Skills
Additional Information
- Clear criminal and credit record
Capitec is committed to diversity, applications to this position will strictly be considered in support of our employment equity goals.