Product Manager – Demand at Omnibiz Africa
At Omnibiz, we’re fully dedicated to supporting local businesses and helping them navigate the modern market. Over 52,000 businesses across the FMCG industry have trusted us to provide them with the services and necessary tools to overcome contemporary challenges in the market place. Why? The answer is simple – they believe the same thing that we at Omnibiz believe: for the global economy to thrive, local businesses must be given the grounds to grow.
As our adventure evolves, we will continue to support local businesses, provide retailers with the necessary tools to thrive in today’s market, partner with industry stakeholders, and relentlessly pursue opportunities to help Africa’s economy grow. Our work has only just begun and although the current results are encouraging, we also realize that the road ahead is long and full of challenges. Regardless, we are excited about the opportunities that exist, the pathways we are creating, and the businesses we are building relationships with.
- 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 Product Retailers Demand Experience Team is responsible for building data driven tools and optimizing the capabilities that drive our expanding ecommerce arm of the business, to acquire, engage, convert and retain retailers on the platform
- The ideal candidate will own and launch features that continuously improve demand team experience.
Manage the digital products that will drive stability of our ecommerce capabilities as we grow as an organisation.
Work cross-functionally & closely with our demand 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 retailers, and internal acquisition and retention team needs.
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.
HND / B.Sc / Tech / BA in Business / Computer Science / Information Systems
2+ years’ experience in Product Management, particularly in ecommerce
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 an ecommerce platform
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.
Growth
Equal Opportunity
Exchange ideas and meet colleagues from different teams in our active squads.
Interested and qualified candidates should apply online.