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Our Client
Our client, the world’s largest off-grid solar energy company with presence in Africa and Asia and with products that serves an estimated 53million people across 35 countries is seeking to appoint a seasoned Product Analyst.
The Role
Reporting to the Global Product Analyst, you will:
Drive the execution of all product lifecycle processes. This includes product research, market research, competitive analysis, planning, positioning, roadmap development, requirements development, and support product launches. You will also produce reports and make recommendations to the Global Product Manager to be used as guidance in decision making.
Job Description
New Product Identification
- Own the Product Ideation Framework and track the offer road-map evolution according to the Product Ideation Process.
- Appraise new product ideas and strategize appropriate Go-To-Market (GTM) plans
- Conduct secondary market research, analyze market data, identify consumer behaviors and trends, make recommendations, and provide launch strategies.
- Create product strategy documents that describe business cases, high-level use cases, technical requirements, target markets, impact, revenue, and ROI.
- Identify competitors, gather information, and analyze the competition's strengths and weaknesses. Document organization’s competitive advantage and generate reports and presentations on the findings.
New Product Pilots
- Formulate ways for which to package and market products in such a way that they become differentiated, compelling, easy to sell, and easy to buy.
- Monitor pilot project performance and present the findings to key internal stakeholders.
- Identify product regulatory standards / technical requirements and ensure compliance.
- Ensures that third parties comply and are familiar with all business processes and policies.
- Support the execution of product pilots as needed by Product Managers.
New Product Introduction
- Support Marketing and the Training Department with technical documentation and market data.
- Respond in a timely manner to all requests and enquiries for product information or changes. Assess the need for any requested changes as well as their potential l impact.
- Support customized branding requirements from key partnerships.
OTHER DUTIES
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.
Qualifications
- Graduate of four (4) year course preferably Business Course, engineering, or any related field.
- Minimum of 2 years experience in product analysis or market research within Energy, FinTech, Electricity distribution or Oil & Gas sector.
- Have extensive knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite (most importantly Excel), Google Workspace (Forms, Sheets, Docs, Slides), Tableau and/or Power BI.
- Exhibit critical thinking skills: Strong ability to structure problems and drive towards solutions even in ambiguous situations.
- Have knowledge of business operations and process operations.
- Open to travel at least 10% of the time.
- Display excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, and the ability to handle challenges at a rapidly growing organization. You can communicate product decisions in the lens of multiple stakeholders
- Have excellent time management skills.