Product Manager B2B (Business-to-Business)

Takealot.com, South Africa's leading online retailer, is looking for a highly talented Product Manager (B2B) to join our dynamic team in Cape Town.

If you have a genuine passion for technology and a drive to continually explore, learn, and enhance your skills, we want you! We are a hyper-growth company looking for smart, innovative, autonomous, and creative individuals to join us.

Our Impact

• Scale: 4 million happy shoppers shop online on takealot.com. Show them what you can do.
• Learn: We work with the best of the best. Work alongside industry leaders and up-skill in record time.
• Grow: Expand your career in the fast-growing Takealot Group: takealot.com and Mr D. We like to promote from within.

Reporting Structure

This position reports directly to the Product Lead.

Your Mission

You will oversee the execution of large organisational goals from concept to implementation by coordinating activities across multiple cross-divisional teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Collaboration: Work with business stakeholders to understand strategy, requirements, and priorities to inform the product vision and contribute to the definition of the product strategy.
• Roadmap Development: Develop and execute the product roadmap for the B2B product vertical, collaborating with cross-functional teams to define product requirements, features, and priorities.
• Product Development: Lead product development and delivery, ensuring timely and high-quality output in collaboration with product, engineering, design, and QA teams.
• Data-Driven Decisions: Gather quantitative and qualitative data to formulate product requirements.
• Design Consistency: Ensure consistency of design patterns across your product portfolio.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Suggest solutions to stakeholder challenges, validate with metrics, and maintain clear communication.
• Customer Experience: Finalise the customer experience for features in collaboration with design resources.
• Technical Collaboration: Engage with technical teams to document non-functional requirements and contribute to technical design decisions.
• KPI Alignment: Influence and align technical KPIs with business KPIs.
• Stakeholder Management: Take ownership of stakeholder relationships, project prioritisation, and roadmap status communications.

Attributes Required

• Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude with high energy.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking, leveraging data to inform decisions.
• Ability to identify improvement areas in current processes.
• Passion for tackling ambiguous, complex problems with innovative, high-quality solutions.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively with a variety of technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or Advanced Diploma in a relevant field, or equivalent industry experience.
• Knowledge of financial principles across multiple streams: AR, AP, Revenue, Inventory.
• Demonstrable experience as a Product Manager or similar role, ideally within an ecommerce or data-centric organisation.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality software products.
• Experience in owning technology products.
• Proven ability to influence senior leadership through data-driven insights.
• Previous experience in a B2B environment along with investigative SQL skills would be an advantage.

Let's talk about life @ Takealot Group

• The power is in your hands: We offer a market-related, Total Remuneration Package that allows full flexibility according to your needs.
• No doors: We aren't fans of stuffy offices or siloed work environments.
• Remote working: Takealot.com offers a hybrid working model for the best of both worlds.
• Mentorship programme: Learn from the best.
• Naspers Tech Community & Online Learning: Up-skill with free access to courses on MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and more.
• Good times: Get to know the other extraordinary minds at takealot.com during regular social events.
• Staff discount: Millions of products across 28 departments.
• Birthday leave: Enjoy your day off.
• Right tools, right job: Work on the latest tech.
• Help when you need it most: Confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance, for free.
• Tech stack (for days): ReactJS, Python, Scala, Kotlin, Swift, Google Cloud, Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes and all things machine learning.
• Free parking: No more long walks to your desk.

Like what you see?

If you meet the above, you are an Extraordinary Mind. Apply today!!

Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.