Product Manager - Seller Experience at Omnibiz Africa

Job Description

Do you have a growth mindset, think big, and relish the opportunity to grow in a fast-paced and demanding environment, then this is for you.

The Seller Experience Team is responsible for building data driven tools and optimizing the capabilities that drive our expanding Marketplace and Manufacturer Services arm of the business.

As a Product Owner for Seller Experience, you will have a key role in discovering, refining, developing opportunities for new seller products and building an outstanding selling experience to our community of manufacturers and distributors.

The ideal candidate will own and launch features that continuously improve seller experience

Your Day to Day:

• Manage the digital products that will drive stability of our marketplace capabilities as we grow as an organisation.
• Work cross-functionally & closely with our procurement and leadership teams
• Work in an agile environment where you will collaborate with a squad of highly skilled tech team to ideate, prototype, iterate and ensure a deep understanding and prioritising of manufacturers needs, business efficiencies and commercial outcomes.
• Act as a Product Owner, maintaining the product backlog, create feature descriptions to provide guidance to Engineering & Data, alongside facilitating refinement and planning sessions.
• Ensure pre and post-launch communications are targeted to the right end users and contain key messages which are easily understood.

Qualifications

• BSc/Tech/BA in Business/Computer Science/Information Systems/Supply Chain Management.

• 2+ years’ experience in Product Management, particularly in ecommerce, B2B or Marketplace Operations

• Experience in e-commerce as a seller or product manager

• Experience in developing products alongside moving parts.

• Basic SQL knowledge or data self-sufficiency for carrying out day to day jobs

• You are interested in the challenge of building a marketplace

• Have a customer-centric approach to problems whilst maintaining a sharp focus on commercial metrics

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

• Excellent at communication, to build deep relationships based on trust and respect.

• Intensely analytical - you rely on quantitative data to make decisions, you use data to discover opportunities, identify issues and drive performance.

• Team orientation and willingness to roll up sleeves to solve complex, dynamic challenges

• Structural thinking, the ability to zoom in and out on projects to challenge solutions on multiple levels.

Additional Information

• Growth
• Equal Opportunity
• Exchange ideas and meet colleagues from different teams in our active squads