Mr D , a division of takealot.com, is looking for a highly talented Product Manager (Catalogue) to join our Partner Services team in Cape Town.
The Product team at Mr D is passionate about creating experiences that delight our customers, while ensuring we continuously acquire and retain customers to exceed our growth objectives. You will work cross-functionally across our product, UX, engineering and other business teams to build features that have a direct impact on the growth and sustainability of Mr D.
This position reports to the Product Lead (Partner Services).
Your mission, should you choose to accept it:
Own the roadmap and execution of the catalogue management product portfolio within Mr D. This includes successful onboarding of partners and their catalogues across Food, Shops and Groceries, ensuring catalogues meet the standard for listing quality, and driving improvements in catalogue management to make life easier for our partners.
Key responsibilities:
Product Strategy and road mapping
Gain a deep understanding of the Catalogue division in terms of its strategic objectives, business processes, available tools and systems, and relevant external best practice benchmarks.
Work closely with the Product Lead for Partner Services to define and maintain a Product Roadmap that delivers on technical developments required to support the Catalogue Division in achieving its strategic objectives.
Contribute to the catalogue management product strategy.
Define and own the catalogue management product roadmap.
Maintain and prioritise the catalogue management backlog through collaboration with the Head of Product, Product Lead, multiple business stakeholders and senior management.
Product development
Define the strategic business requirements for technical systems development related to specific projects prioritised on the Product Roadmap, using relevant data to support decision-making.
Translate business requirements into functional and technical IT user stories and project specifications, by ensuring that projects are broken down into phases to deliver immediate business benefit.
End-to-end project management of technical projects throughout the entire product development lifecycle: setting timelines, driving project schedules, leading cross-functional development teams from design through to release, and managing the production launch.
Manage the engineering backlog via appropriate sprint prioritisation and planning.
Manage the execution and rollout of catalogue management features across the Mr D platform. This includes the entire product development cycle from design, documentation, implementation, testing and launch to success metric monitoring.
Write detailed product specification documents for the engineering and design teams using both traditional and AI-accelerated methods for mobile applications, back-end application logic, APIs, integrations, and browser-based internal and partner-facing tools.
Collaborate and communicate effectively cross functionally to drive implementation of these specifications (i.e. define objectives and success metrics, business rules, epics/user stories, write acceptance criteria and wireframes).
Participate in and contribute to backlog grooming and planning ceremonies.
Engage with subject matter experts to analyse trade-offs and resolve priority conflicts.
Clarify product requirements and create acceptance criteria with QA.
Perform pre-launch user acceptance testing (UAT).
Collaborate with technical teams to document high-level non-functional requirements.
Contribute to technical design decisions for relevant projects.
Work with the partner onboarding team, catalogue operations team, groceries team, shops team, food team, BI team and customer support team to bring everything together to ensure partners can list and manage their catalogues with ease.
Qualitative and Quantitative analysis
Be responsible for defining and reporting on catalogue management success metrics such as catalogue…