Senior Product Manager – TFG Careers Cape Town


Website The Foschini Group - TFG

Position Summary:

As our Senior Product Manager for Catalogue you’ll have a deep understanding of how digital product catalogues, structured product information and schemas enable and improve customer features and experiences.

What you’ll do:

  • Produce excellent documentation including stories, acceptance criteria, root cause analysis, process and workflow diagrams and ERDs
  • Collaborate and communicate with internal and external partners to build, test, implement and operationalise initiatives
  • Create, own and maintain the product roadmap, including the scoping, sizing and prioritisation of initiatives that will deliver value against KPIs
  • Drive the execution and delivery of your team’s goals
  • Write detailed product specifications, collaborating closely with BI, Analytics, Design and Engineering teams to ensure business impact and customer value
  • Develop a strong partnership with engineering in order to execute effectively
  • Define metrics and track progress against them regularly
  • This includes running day-to-day ceremonies of a product team including standup, planning, grooming and retrospectives
  • Communicate plans and progress to cross-functional partners and leadership
  • Work closely with the Marketplace business unit to triage and prioritise operational issues

What you’ll have:

  • High situational fluency
  • Proven success in business process improvement/re-engineering
  • Ability to own product data lifecycle understanding and issue investigation for data integrity, governance and support of launches
  • Possess a detailed understanding of hierarchies, hierarchy management and strategic processes is preferred
  • You will provide direct visibility to senior leadership on all aspects of your products on a regular cadence
  • You will have end to end ownership – all the way from defining the strategy to measuring metrics to monitoring day to day progress of these products
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative business and data analysis skills
  • Comfort and experience in utilising technologies to solve these complex real-world business problems including Product Information
  • Management (PIM) tools, Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Image Recognition and other technologies