Product Owner - Jumia Food at Jumia

What you will be doing: 

• The Jumia Food Product Manager will have the responsibility to define our Q-commerce Logistics vision, working closely with Senior Stakeholders, other Product Managers, and the tech team, 
• Help define the overall strategy Q-commerce logistics, the roadmap, and business plan to achieve a best-in-class experience.
• Actively prioritize product backlog and coordinate planning with Product Owners, Designers, and Data Scientists.
• Work with clients and partners to define and create storyboards and user journey maps
• Work with clients and partners to understand and address usability issues
• Help unify the user experience of currently fragmented properties and products.
• Foster a collaborative relationship between business product managers and the Data Science team, ensure productive engagements between the two teams.
• Work with the technical product managers to ensure that the deliverables are well defined and understood in the overall project scope.
• Work with PMO; help develop processes to ensure orderly, predictable execution of deliverables 

Main Responsibilities:

• Drive one or more Scrum Teams as the Product Owner
• Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements in the forms of Epics, Themes, and Stories
• Backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
• Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum best practices and values
• Lead the planning product release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
• Providing an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

Requirements:

• ​Previous working experience as Product Owner/Project Manager in IT; Prior experience on e-commerce topics is a plus;
• ​Exposure or knowledge of Agile development frameworks - Scrum, Kanban is mandatory (Certification is a plus);
• ​Ability to actively manage competing priorities, requirements and meet deadlines;
• ​Previous working experience in Q-commerce products is a plus (not mandatory)
• ​Excellent interpersonal & communication skills;
• ​Fluent in English (Mandatory).

Expected personal skills :

• Action oriented and results oriented
• Strong analytical skill
• Strong inter-personal skills
• Fast learner
• Well organized
• Resistant to stress
• Very independent with a strong ability to go further than the expectations