- Location
- Auto and General Park, South Africa
- Type
- Full-time
- Department
- IT
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Education
- Master
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- Workday
Description
Join TIH, home to some of South Africa’s leading financial service providers, and grow your career while being part of an organisation with purpose.
Job Purpose
Manage feature teams to transfer the project / product vision to design, development, and delivery. Guide the team through the product backlog toward building the right product considering the vision, planning and budgets of the business, customers or users resulting in the requested business value.Responsibilities
Digital Vision and Strategy
Collaborate on development of the digital road map and key strategic enablers, designing the workflow and business processes that allow new applications, products, and services to be rolled out quickly while ensuring that legacy applications and IT operations are maintained at optimal levels.
Stakeholder Management
Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective project working relationships and to ensure that stakeholder needs and concerns are identified and met.
Business Case Contribution
Drive and developing business cases to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment.
Product/Service Development
Evaluate the feasibility/relevance of proposed solutions, working in cross functional or agile teams to develop and deliver significant aspects of the development program.
Data-driven Product and Service Improvement
Research data from digital product/service performance, customer behaviour, and market trends to identify opportunities for product/service improvement.
Customer Needs/Experience Research
Support customer and user research teams by performing customer analysis and market research using standardised techniques.
Project Management
Independent management of medium to larger scale projects, with sole accountability to deliver project within defined quality and time-frames.
Improvement / Innovation
Identify shortcomings in existing business practices, then suggest and implement improvements while developing and delivering projects or a work stream within the organisation's change management program.
Horizon Scanning
Maintain understanding of current technology, competitors and market trends, database management, and/or programming practices through ongoing education, conference attendance, and reading industry press.
Education
BCom Business or BSC Information Technology/Systems degree or similar (Essential); Product Owner certification (Advantageous); MBA (Advantageous); Hons (Advantageous) (Required)Experience
5 to 8 years general working experience (Essential); 3 to 5 years experience in Product Management (Essential); Product development experience (Essential); Experience in a similar role within the Financial Services Industry (Advantageous)