Product Manager - Supply Chain Outbound

Takealot.com, South Africa’s leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Product Manager to join our Supply Chain product and engineering team based in Cape Town to focus on order fulfilment. 

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: Over 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com and 2.7 million on Mr D. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best, and then some. Work alongside industry leaders and up-skill 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. 

This position reports to the Supply Chain Product Lead.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Develop and execute the product roadmap for supply chain software projects.
• Working cross-functionally with engineering, design, operations, and executive teams to bring about product enhancements that will move the needle on our key performance indicators. 
• Working with business stakeholders to understand their strategy, requirements, and priorities in order to translate their needs into projects for engineering teams.
• Defining and tracking the metrics and data that will inform all decisions on features and functionality. 
• Analyzing and understanding project scope and core objectives, eliciting low-level functional requirements and documenting these requirements such that detailed technical specifications can be compiled by engineering teams.
• Collaborate with technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyze trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
• Be proactive in ensuring that the engineering and QA teams understand the requirements by participating in backlog grooming and sprint planning sessions and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
• Set timelines, drive project schedules and lead cross-functional development teams from design through to release.
• Monitor metrics and dashboards to make sure products are performing up to standard.
• Take ownership of managing any direct reports and mentoring them in their career development.
• Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.

The skills we need:

• Must have a proven track record of execution and have the ability to formulate a detailed product roadmap and execute that plan.
• Ability to wear multiple hats to guide other product managers, business analysts, UX experts, and engineers to deliver world-class products.
• Be solution-oriented, accountable, highly motivated, and have a robust personality.
• The ability to take initiative in ambiguous situations, by identifying critical problems and driving solutions.
• Data-driven decision making.
• Outstanding organizational and communication skills and the ability to balance multiple priorities.
• Be highly accountable when it comes to meeting deadlines and driving projects.

Qualifications and experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field and a minimum of 5 years of Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
• If you don’t have a Bachelor’s Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field, an equivalent experience requirement must be met, which equates to a minimum of 8 years of Product Management experience, of which a minimum of 2 years experience in a Product Development environment is required.
• Proficiency in basic SQL querying and coding is required at a minimum.
• Experience in a supply chain or logistics environment (i.e. physical movement of goods) would be a big advantage.

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? Takealot.com 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 takealot.com 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). 

Like what you see? 

If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

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