Product Manager at Nomanini

More about the role:

The Product Manager is responsible for the product planning and execution throughout the Product Life-cycle, including: defining the product vision, gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, and working closely with engineering, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met. The Product Manager’s job also includes ensuring that the product supports the company’s overall strategy and goals and measuring whether product initiatives produce the expected stakeholder value.

The Product Manager:

• Defines the product vision, strategy, and roadmap.
• Gathers, manages, and prioritizes market/customer requirements.
• Acts as the customer advocate, articulating the user’s and/or partner’s needs.
• Works closely with engineering, sales, marketing, and support to ensure business case and customer satisfaction goals are met.
• Measures whether product initiatives produce the expected stakeholder value

Key result areas:

Define a niche product roadmap that makes sense to financial service institutions, FMCG partners and informal merchants

• Develops the business case for new products, and improvements to existing products
• Develops Go To Market and Implementation and Support plans with the Head of Product , Revenue and Engineering teams to ensure external customer goals are met.
• develops positioning and look and feel of the product

Drive product growth, scaling teams and set the relevant product vision & strategy

• Design optimal strategy for the relevant product delivery across the key markets factoring in the current and projected future state of the relevant markets, competitors, regulatory pressures etc.
• Be an internal expert, staying engaged with key ongoing market developments, regulatory interventions, competitor activity, events and conferences etc

Provide efficient and effective operational reporting for the relevant product

• Influence internal stakeholders during the life cycle of the relevant product development, improvement and implementation
• Continuously measure and report on if the relevant product produces the expected stakeholder value

Influence internal stakeholders during the life cycle of product development, improvement and implementation

• Act as a contributor and/or lead through the development life cycle working as an integrated part of the engineering and operations team. 

Requirements

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree (or equivalent)
• A post graduate qualification is advantageous
• Technical background is a plus

Experience:

• 2 - 5 years Fintech or relevant experience
• Demonstrated success in defining and launching products that meet business objectives
• Subject matter expertise in a particular product or market.
• Experience of engaging with external customers
• Experience of engaging across the organization with internal colleagues and third party suppliers (e.g. Software development, Operations, Finance and Revenue, Marketing)

Technical Competencies:

• Ability to quickly learn complex domains
• Technical knowledge and ability to effectively communicate and discuss technical requirements with engineers
• Ability to distill complex metrics into product decisions
• Ability to communicate technical issues in a non-technical manner to a diverse audience
• Critical thinking skills and ability to draw insight from incomplete data to make final decisions
• Comfort in a fast-paced and agile development environment

Behavioural Competencies:

• Result-driven
  • Proven organizational ability and working within tight deadlines, often under pressure.
  • The ability to work in a cross-functional team.
• Strategic thinking
  • Empathy with retailers and the stakeholders around them.
  • Ability to process and make decisions where certainty/data is limited.
  • Strong analytical skills and financial literacy.
  • Ability to apply quantitative analytical approaches, communicate effectively and confidently (both oral and written).
• Collaboration / Influence
  • Vision, creativity, presence, and credibility. A collaborative and flexible style. Ability to interact effectively with leadership and business partners
  • Ability to influence and negotiate effectively at all levels (including C – Level) and across a variety of businesses.
  • Exceptional leadership skills, with the ability to collaborate across a highly matrixed organization.
  • Consulting ability to determine context, collate relevant facts/data, analyze and coherently articulate the challenge, potential solutions and recommended solutions