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Technical Product Manager

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PwC

10d ago

  • Job
    Full-time
    Senior & Expert Level
  • Johannesburg
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Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Business Administration or Business Management or similar.
  • Product Management qualification
  • ITIL Foundation (or other ITSM qualification)
  • 5+ years in IT within product, project, analysis or application management
  • Familiarity with the principles of design thinking and agile software delivery
  • Engaging executive stakeholders
  • Experience of product / application management discipline
  • Experience in guiding IT Operations in the ongoing operational management of applications and products
  • Business acumen and enterprise knowledge
  • Relationship building
  • Customer centric focus
  • Ability to diagnose and resolve technical failures
  • Time management
  • Prioritisation
  • Leadership and influence
  • Facilitation and persuasion skills
  • Collaboration with delivery teams
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Visionary / Holistic Thinking
  • Strategic planning and thinking
  • Outcome driven orientation

Responsibilities

  • Maintain a full product life cycle perspective for all products in relevant product line(s) with a focus on value and viability.
  • Establish and maintain relationships with the key business and technology stakeholders
  • Provide full transparency of the vision, mission, strategy, backlog, trade-offs, costs and value of all products in their portfolio
  • Manage the backlog of future capabilities or products needed to meet business demand
  • Link products with relevant business strategy and related profit and loss goals
  • Orchestrate internal and external stakeholders to validate and refine product definitions and roadmaps
  • Define product roadmap based on business outcomes
  • Build the business case for a product and ensure the product is delivered in a manner that best achieves financial or other goals
  • Help to identify the functional and manageability requirements for the business application
  • Key contact for impactful incidents, communicating and liaising with stakeholders to understand the impact and working with specialists to resolve the problem.
  • Responsible for ensuring that we deliver services into operations and production systems are operationally reliable, available and secure inline with Information Security Standards and requirements. Innovate within these standards utilizing ITIL, Agile and DevOps practices to their full value.
  • Can demonstrate compliance with Information Security Policy Controls Standards, providing necessary evidence to support audit activities as required.
  • Ensure preparedness to deliver and support the entire business capability of a product, including all its human, organizational, process and physical aspects
  • Build and improve the strategy and governance for products and applications
  • Bring the product to market in collaboration with the marketing and change teams
  • Ensure ongoing product success as defined by the business case
  • Maintain the necessary knowledge and experience in the team in order to provide optimum product support
  • Provide communication on the product performance to relevant stakeholders
  • Manage product decommission and lessons learned for other product areas and the organisation

Accounting
Industry
10,001+
Employees
1998
Founded Year

Mission & Purpose

PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) is one of the Big 4 accounting firms and a leading professional services organisation. PwC offers a broad range of services, including audit and assurance, tax consulting, advisory, and legal services. They work with clients across various industries, from multinational corporations to startups, providing insights, expertise, and solutions to help them address complex challenges and achieve their goals. PwC's ultimate mission is to build trust in society and solve important problems. They strive to enhance transparency, integrity, and accountability in financial reporting, while also supporting sustainable business practices and societal advancement. PwC's purpose is to contribute to creating trust and value for their clients, people, and wider stakeholders, driving confidence and fostering innovation in a rapidly changing world.

Culture & Values

  • Act with integrity

    Speak up for what is right, especially when it feels difficult. Expect and deliver the highest quality outcomes. Make decisions and act as if our personal reputations were at stake.

  • Make a difference

    Stay informed and ask questions about the future of the world we live in. Create impact with our colleagues, our clients and society through our actions. Respond with agility to the ever changing environment in which we operate.

  • Care

    Make the effort to understand every individual and what matters to them. Recognise the value that each person contributes. Support others to grow and work in the ways that bring out their best.

  • Work together

    Collaborate and share relationships, ideas and knowledge beyond boundaries. Seek and integrate a diverse range of perspectives, people and ideas. Give and ask for feedback to improve ourselves and others.

  • Reimagine the possible

    Dare to challenge the status quo and try new things. Innovate, test and learn from failure. Have an open mind to the possibilities in every idea.