
1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 2011
📦 Logistics
📣 Marketing
🛍️ eCommerce
Logistics • Marketing • eCommerce
takealot. com is an online marketplace offering a diverse range of products, including electronics, apparel, homeware, and groceries. The platform features various categories for shopping, including beauty, gaming, and personal care items, making it a comprehensive destination for consumers in search of convenience and variety. With a user-friendly interface and virtual shopping assistance, takealot. com aims to enhance the online shopping experience for its users.
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1001 - 5000 employees
Founded 2011
📦 Logistics
📣 Marketing
🛍️ eCommerce
Logistics • Marketing • eCommerce
takealot. com is an online marketplace offering a diverse range of products, including electronics, apparel, homeware, and groceries. The platform features various categories for shopping, including beauty, gaming, and personal care items, making it a comprehensive destination for consumers in search of convenience and variety. With a user-friendly interface and virtual shopping assistance, takealot. com aims to enhance the online shopping experience for its users.
• Own the roadmap and execution of the catalogue management product portfolio across Food, Shops and Groceries • Ensure successful partner and catalogue onboarding and listing quality • Define and maintain the catalogue management product roadmap and strategy • Maintain and prioritise the product backlog with product, business and senior-management stakeholders • Define business requirements for technical system development using relevant data • Translate business requirements into functional and technical user stories and project specifications • Manage technical projects end-to-end from design through release and production launch • Manage engineering backlog prioritisation and sprint planning • Execute and roll out catalogue management features across the Mr D platform • Write product specifications for mobile applications, backend logic, APIs, integrations, and browser-based tools • Define objectives, success metrics, business rules, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria and wireframes • Participate in backlog grooming and planning ceremonies • Analyse trade-offs and resolve priority conflicts with subject matter experts • Clarify product requirements and create acceptance criteria with QA • Perform pre-launch user acceptance testing • Document high-level non-functional requirements and contribute to technical design decisions • Collaborate with partner onboarding, catalogue operations, groceries, shops, food, BI and customer support teams • Define and report catalogue-management success metrics • Measure development success and prioritise roadmap projects to improve metrics • Monitor quantitative and qualitative data to identify catalogue-management opportunities • Suggest and validate partner-focused solutions with UX • Sign off design solutions and communicate requirements to UX/UI resources • Manage stakeholder communications, consultation, buy-in and project-status updates • Manage relationships and integrations between Mr D and partner systems, including API responsibilities
• At least 3 years experience as a Product Manager or 5 years in a software development related role, such as Business Analysis or Product Owner • Bachelor's degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field • If the candidate does not have a Bachelor's Degree or Advanced Diploma in a related field, an equivalent experience requirement must be met • Strong technical acumen for integration • Understanding of machine learning, LLM and AI concepts and their applications • Ability to write specifications using traditional and AI-accelerated methods • Experience analysing data and making data-driven product decisions • Experience with wireframing or design solutions • Ability to prioritise competing priorities under pressure • Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing and less-structured environment • Initiative in ambiguous situations and ability to identify problems and drive solutions • Strong data-driven decision-making and business insight extraction skills • Solution-oriented, accountable and self-motivated approach • Strong ownership and determination • Strong organisational skills and attention to detail • Ability to work collaboratively with multiple departments, executives and cross-functional teams • Excellent problem-solving skills • Excellent verbal and written communication skills • Eagerness to experiment, learn and grow • Ability to focus on Partner experience as well as app features
• Market-related Total Remuneration Package with flexibility according to individual needs • Remote working model with the option to work from the office, fully remote, or a mix • Mentorship programme • Access to Naspers Tech Community • Free access to MyAcademy, Udacity, Coursera and other online learning courses • Regular social events and out-of-office activities • Staff discount across millions of products and 28 departments • TakealotMore Benefit • Birthday leave • Choice of Mac or Windows computer and one or two monitors • Latest technology and equipment • Confidential counselling, legal support, and financial guidance at no cost • Free parking
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