Job Description
Our client is looking for a dynamic, energetic, innovative, strategic, and self-motivated individual to work
from their Johannesburg Office. The candidate must have a solid work ethic, be able to work under deadline, engage and collaborate with team members/management and be able to follow directions and respect department / corporate policies.

Responsibilities

• Assist the senior Product Owner in developing components of the product roadmap.
• Engage with in-house business leaders and subject matter experts to translate business requirements into a technical agenda for development & deployment to production.
• Define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities.
• Work with internal and external contacts to analyze needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.
• Assess, and prioritise the product backlog.
• Assist the senior Product Owner in developing components of the product roadmap.
• Engage with in-house business leaders and subject matter experts to translate business requirements into a technical agenda for development & deployment to production.
• Define product vision, roadmap, and growth opportunities.
• Work with internal and external contacts to analyze needs and align product roadmap to strategic goals.
• Assess, and prioritise the product backlog.
• Project management
• Management of and liaison with stakeholders and technical teams to ensure timely delivery of functionality to meet
• specification and quality standards.
• Regular reporting & feedback on progress, risks, and bottlenecks to management.
• Actively mitigate roadblocks impacting successful team completion of release/sprint goals.
• Hand over and high-level support of deployed functionality to business.

Requirements and Qualifications
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering / Accounting / Finance / Information Technology Science/Engineering/ Mathematics/related field or equivalent experience
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong competency in business process design and analysis
• Ability to see and present "the big picture" and offer solutions for improvement
• Practical experience in the design/re-engineering of business processes
• Proven (technology) project management experience
• Scrum/Agile training (and practical experience) advantageous
• Familiarity with modern cloud technology, SaaS products and low code platforms advantageous
• Working knowledge of IT systems fundamentals e.g., databases, integration patterns