We're a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hard-working people with integrity, to join us. We offer a market related remuneration, a great work environment and a promise that you won't be bored, as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great!
This role will report to the Fulfillment Product Lead.
Responsibilities:
- To analyse and understand project scope and core stakeholder objectives
- Assist in requirements elicitation workshops with stakeholders to define high level business requirements
- Work with the Product Manager to elicit detailed, low level functional requirements and the documentation of these requirements such that detailed technical specifications can be compiled by Engineering.
- Analyze data trends and provide relevant insight of trends.
- Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, break down high-level information into their constituent details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true business needs.
- Collaborate with technical lead and subject matter experts to establish the technical vision and analyse trade-offs between usability and performance needs.
- Proactively communicate and collaborate with project team to analyse information needs and functional requirements to deliver the following artifacts as needed:
- Business/functional requirement specification
- Wireframes
- Workflow / process flow diagrams
- Data Model/s
- Prototypes
- Be proactive in ensuring that the development and QA teams understand the requirements by attending daily team meetings and initiating functional clarification sessions where needed.
- Setting timelines, driving project schedules and leading cross-functional development teams from design through to release.
- Review the test plan and test scripts to ensure quality and coverage.
- Performing user acceptance testing.
- Monitor, evaluate review user experience.
- Strong customer focus
- Solutions-oriented, can-do attitude and high energy
- Strong analytical and critical thinking, using data to inform decisions
- Passion for understanding ambiguous, complex problems and driving high quality, innovative, clean solutions
- Ability to present ideas succinctly, in writing and verbally
- Versatile and with an appetite to learn by doing
- Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
- Willing to be 'hands-on' in learning and solving operational issues
- A bachelor's degree in Information Systems or Computer Science or similar degree.
- A minimum of 3 years' experience in business analysis, product management or a related field.
- Experience in Android Mobile application development preferred
- Experience defining solutions for internal and external customer facing
- Experience in working with Agile / Scrum teams
- Excellent verbal and written communications skills with the ability to present complex information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of audiences, including technical and non-technical individuals.
- Takelot.com employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic, smart, customer-centric, fun and have the shared ambition of takealot.com being the leading e-commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, collaborate to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas about how we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
- is forthright but respectful
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strives to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
- is passionate about the potential of e-commerce and delivering a world-class customer experience
- is entrepreneurial, thrives with change, accepts change is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
- thinks about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input
- is curious and challenges the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot.com
- thinks like an owner of the business
- is SMART, has INTEGRITY and is HARDWORKING
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.
