Product Development Manager at Orange Telkom

Role Purpose:
She/he will work with each of the Branded Resellers (Financial institutions) to explore new products and services which can be developed in conjunction with the Branded Resellers.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ideation, conceptualization, development, launch & delivery management of a hybrid nature that will bridge telecommunications and MFS based on insights, meeting existing customers and segment needs, to drive growth and achieve revenue targets for hybrid Telco-MFS products
• Enrich our offer to the customer by developing products and services to engender greater stickiness
• Lead product innovation and understand market trends,
• Generation of new revenue streams for Telco-MFS products
• Managing the internal resources both technical and commercial to successfully deliver new products and services into the market.
• Determine product pricing by utilizing market research data; anticipating volume; product costing.
• Prepare, analyse and present various reports covering product development including key metrics on time to market, product development pipeline, ease of integration etc.
• Work in tandem with partner branded resellers to develop product business cases

Academic/ Professional Qualifications
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, IT, Telecommunications or other related field
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience in developing products and managing internal resources both technical and commercial to successfully deliver new products
• Knowledge of the Mobile Financial Services industry and familiarity of the banking industry
• Demonstrates a solid track record of the management of a small product development team and an innovative orientation

Professional Skills:

Initiative and Hands on
Ability to work long hours to meet deadline
Innovative
Team Player
Ability to work without supervision
Results oriented
Good interpersonal skills
Strong analytical skills
Knowledge in Financial planning and strategy
Sales and pricing planning