204 Group Product Manager jobs in South Africa
Group Product and Development Manager
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Introduction
Reports to: The Commercial Manager
Location: Travel between all factory sites, customer locations, and the showroom
Package:
Paying R100K + Benefits
This person plays a pivotal role in shaping the product vision and strategy, guiding the entire product development lifecycle from ideation to market introduction. The Manager is responsible for conducting in-depth market research to identify trends and opportunities, driving innovation to create products that exceed customer expectations and adhere to company standards.
In this influential position, the manager will coordinate the marketing team, setting strategic priorities and directing initiatives to ensure successful product launches and impactful promotions. They will develop comprehensive training materials and generate engaging content for social media and marketing tools, enhancing brand visibility and customer engagement.
Additionally, the Manager will oversee pricing structures and master data management, ensuring a cohesive and distinct product offering across multiple factories. By promoting collaboration with suppliers and internal teams, the Group Product Manager ensures that our product range remains competitive and aligned with market demands.
Duties & Responsibilities
Product Development & Innovation
- Lead the development of new products, ensuring technical and aesthetic specifications are met.
- Conduct market research to identify trends, customer needs, and market gaps to inform product development strategies.
- Work closely with Designers, Production managers, and Suppliers to create innovative, cost-effective, and high-quality products.
- Ensure product specifications meet industry standards and align with the company's quality and design expectations.
Range Management Design and Trends
- Analyse trends to meet local preferences and identify new design solutions that encompass all room elements, including floors, walls, features, and sanitaryware.
- Guide manufacturers' designers and in-house designers on the latest trends and successful design development.
- Mentor customers on range building, rationalization, styles, and designs to create effective product ranges.
- Provide guidance to colleagues at sister companies on product selection, range rationalization, and display layout.
- Mentor new suppliers' designers on product design.
Factory Alignment
- Conduct comparative analyses to ensure that products from different factories possess distinctive features and benefits, avoiding overlap in styles.
- Develop strategic product development plans tailored to each factory.
- Identify style trends for the South African market in two divisions.
- Oversee range revamps and the introduction of new products based on set targets.
- Continue to rationalize product ranges and discontinue underperforming items as needed.
Sales Performance
- Conduct periodic reviews of new product sales, analysing performance against targets.
- Develop actionable plans to address gaps in product offerings and adjust strategies to meet sales goals.
- Monitor competitor activities and market trends to proactively adapt product offerings in collaboration with the Commercial team.
Project Management
- Oversee the product development process, ensuring timelines and quality standards are met.
- Manage cross-functional coordination among internal teams (factory development, production, marketing, and sales) and external partners, including glaze manufacturers and direct customer engagement.
- Track the progress of product development projects, troubleshoot issues, and ensure timely market delivery.
Pricing Strategy
- Manage and develop the pricing matrix for products across different factories in collaboration with the Commercial team, aligning pricing structures with market demand, commercial objectives, and factory profitability.
- Monitor and adjust pricing strategies based on market trends and competitor activities.
- Suggest special offers and deals to encourage stock movement and improve sales.
- Assist the master data coordinator in monitoring the integrity and consistency of pricing information across all platforms.
Marketing & Product Launch
- Play an active role in the marketing team by initiating product launch strategies and prioritizing tasks to promote new products.
- Lead the creation of marketing materials, including brochures, training content, and digital assets for social media and other platforms.
- Ensure marketing efforts align with the brand's vision and enhance product visibility in the market.
- Collaborate with sales and marketing teams to develop promotional strategies that increase product awareness and sales.
- Supervise trade marketing initiatives to maintain high standards in showrooms and effectively manage samples for agents.
Training & Content Creation
- Develop comprehensive training materials for internal teams and customers to ensure a thorough understanding of product features, benefits, and installation processes.
- Create engaging content for social media, brochures, and other marketing tools to effectively promote products.
- Provide product training to sales teams, equipping them with knowledge about new product features and advantages.
SOP Systems
- Establish workflow and standard operating procedures (SOPs) for all steps in the development and launch processes to optimize product development and marketing. Workflows outline the sequence of tasks, while SOPs provide detailed instructions for executing each task consistently.
- Manage the database, initiate the creation of new bases, and implement automation to improve workflow and data sharing between product development and production.
- Streamline the development and launch of new products at both factory and sales/marketing support levels.
- Provide ongoing training on the development workflow.
- Encourage the factory to supply product specification information to agents and customers more efficiently, ensuring communication formats meet company standards.
Continuous Improvement
- Monitor product performance in the market and gather feedback to guide future updates.
- Lead initiatives for continuous product improvement based on market demands and customer feedback.
- Position the company as an industry leader by continuously innovating and setting trends in style and design to ensure our products remain at the forefront of the market.
Desired Experience & Qualification
- Min of 7 - 8 years in a Product Dev Manager role.
- Homeware/Sanitaryware/Tile/Fabric design and development background.
- Flair for design and product development.
- Must come from some sort of fashionable/trend/what the market wants type of industry.
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Product Development Manager
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To manage products throughout the product lifestyle as well as cooperate and work with others in the pursuit of team goals, providing specialist advice and support to all stakeholders
Ensuring optimal product rollout across the entire value chain
Role Purpose
As a Product Development Manager, you will lead the end-to-end development of innovative financial products that meet customer needs, align with business strategy, and comply with regulatory requirements. You will work cross-functionally with design, engineering, compliance, and commercial teams to bring new products to market and continuously improve existing offerings. A strong emphasis is placed on governance, audit remediation, and data privacy principles.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the product development lifecycle from ideation to launch and post-launch optimization.
- Conduct market research, customer discovery, and competitor analysis to identify opportunities.
- Develop business cases, define product requirements, and prioritize features based on value and feasibility.
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers, engineers, and data teams to deliver high-quality digital experiences.
- Lead agile ceremonies and ensure timely delivery of product milestones.
- Monitor product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, and iterate accordingly.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, and records management frameworks throughout the product lifecycle.
- Maintain strong governance practices, including documentation, decision tracking, and stakeholder alignment.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams to remediate audit findings and proactively manage product risks.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Audit Remediation: Timely and effective closure of audit findings related to product processes and controls.
- Governance: Adherence to governance frameworks, including product committee approvals, documentation standards, and decision traceability.
- Privacy & Records Management: Compliance with POPIA and internal records management policies; zero breaches or escalations.
- Product Delivery: On-time delivery of product milestones and releases.
- Customer Impact: Improvement in customer satisfaction, adoption, and retention metrics.
- Commercial Performance: Achievement of product revenue, margin, or growth targets.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field (Honours/Master's preferred).
- 3-5 years of experience in product development or product management, ideally in financial services or fintech.
- Proven track record of launching successful products in a digital environment.
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies, product lifecycle management, and go-to-market strategies.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and managing multiple stakeholders.
Skills & Competencies
- Strategic thinking and commercial acumen
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, Figma, and data dashboards like PowerBi
- Knowledge of APIs, digital platforms, and customer experience design
- Understanding of regulatory, privacy, and governance frameworks in financial services
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11/09/25
All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group's Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.
Product Development Manager
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Job Description
To manage products throughout the product lifestyle as well as cooperate and work with others in the pursuit of team goals, providing specialist advice and support to all stakeholders
Ensuring optimal product rollout across the entire value chain
Role Purpose
As a Product Development Manager, you will lead the end-to-end development of innovative financial products that meet customer needs, align with business strategy, and comply with regulatory requirements. You will work cross-functionally with design, engineering, compliance, and commercial teams to bring new products to market and continuously improve existing offerings. A strong emphasis is placed on governance, audit remediation, and data privacy principles.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive the product development lifecycle from ideation to launch and post-launch optimization.
- Conduct market research, customer discovery, and competitor analysis to identify opportunities.
- Develop business cases, define product requirements, and prioritize features based on value and feasibility.
- Collaborate with UX/UI designers, engineers, and data teams to deliver high-quality digital experiences.
- Lead agile ceremonies and ensure timely delivery of product milestones.
- Monitor product performance using KPIs and customer feedback, and iterate accordingly.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory, privacy, and records management frameworks throughout the product lifecycle.
- Maintain strong governance practices, including documentation, decision tracking, and stakeholder alignment.
- Partner with Risk, Compliance, and Audit teams to remediate audit findings and proactively manage product risks.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Audit Remediation: Timely and effective closure of audit findings related to product processes and controls.
- Governance: Adherence to governance frameworks, including product committee approvals, documentation standards, and decision traceability.
- Privacy & Records Management: Compliance with POPIA and internal records management policies; zero breaches or escalations.
- Product Delivery: On-time delivery of product milestones and releases.
- Customer Impact: Improvement in customer satisfaction, adoption, and retention metrics.
- Commercial Performance: Achievement of product revenue, margin, or growth targets.
Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or related field (Honours/Master's preferred).
- 3-5 years of experience in product development or product management, ideally in financial services or fintech.
- Proven track record of launching successful products in a digital environment.
- Strong understanding of agile methodologies, product lifecycle management, and go-to-market strategies.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams and managing multiple stakeholders.
Skills & Competencies
- Strategic thinking and commercial acumen
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management
- Familiarity with tools like Jira, Confluence, Figma, and data dashboards like PowerBi
- Knowledge of APIs, digital platforms, and customer experience design
- Understanding of regulatory, privacy, and governance frameworks in financial services
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Job Details
Take note that applications will not be accepted on the below date and onwards, kindly submit applications ahead of the closing date indicated below.
11/09/25
All appointments will be made in line with FirstRand Group's Employment Equity plan. The Bank supports the recruitment and advancement of individuals with disabilities. In order for us to fulfill this purpose, candidates can disclose their disability information on a voluntary basis. The Bank will keep this information confidential unless we are required by law to disclose this information to other parties.
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Manager, Product Development
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Business Segment: Corporate & Investment Banking
Location: ZA, GP, Johannesburg, 30 Baker Street
Job Type: Full-time
Job Ref ID: A-0001
Date Posted: 10/3/2025
Job Description
To lead and manage the end-to-end product development process, by defining the customer discovery and design thinking strategies, so as to oversee project execution and launch new digital products. To collaborate with cross-functional teams, conduct market research, and leverage their expertise to ensure the timely delivery of innovative products that meet customer needs and align with business objectives.
Develop and define the Customer Discovery and Design Thinking Strategy in line with the Innovation-as-a-Service and the Group Innovation strategies, setting the research, discovery and design standards and methodologies to be utilised within the area of expertise.
Identify and track new digital solution design trends, emerging digital product discoveries and business opportunities, so that they may be applied during the customer discovery and design thinking phase of the digital value stream, to ensure continuous competitiveness with the latest market development and to meet the requirements of all key stakeholders.
Understand and co-create innovative Ecosystems and Platforms, in collaboration with the Product Owners, Platform Owners and Product Managers, by supporting team members to drive the targeted execution of solutions in order to ensure that all the Digital Product Solutions are well established and managed with regards to key stakeholder requirements.
Develop customer discovery and design thinking standards in consultation with the organisation and solution owners to ensure consistency and compatibility in approaches to solution definitions and developments.
Facilitate target-state client journey mapping, by understanding the motivational drivers of clients, customers and/or solution users, and the moments that matter to derive possible solution features as required to be part of a target state; while being cognisant of individual client journeys and customer experience touchpoints, to develop a Digital Product Solution experience that will enhance customer satisfaction
Qualifications
Degree: Business Commerce (Min)
Post Graduate Qualification: Business Commerce (Pref)
Additional Information
Experience Required: Digital & eCommerce
5-7 Years: Experience throughout the entire value stream of design thinking and the requirements in each. Proven experience in problem definition and solution development across a wide array of projects; Proven experience in leading specialised research and data and analytics teams. Proven experience scoping and driving design sprints, prototyping and testing solutions.
5-7 Years: Consume and comprehend general IT / technology applications and aspects, such as architecture diagrams, API and SRE, utilising data, analytics, research and development to oversee and drive system and software enhancements, stand their ground with technology and system experts, in order to ensure and drive IT lifecycle management related to process engineering product offerings across the African continent and the Group.
5-7 Years: Drive a multifunctional team and provide advise and insight pertaining to Digital enhancements, developments and industry research, to enable strategic business decisions. Engage and collaborate with other enabling/supporting functions across the Standard Bank Group (e.g., Compliance, Legal, IT, and Research & Operations) to obtain support/ information to manage the end-to-end product value stream. Engage with Finance to analyse product/project financial performance, planning and budgeting.
Behavioural Competencies:
Adopting Practical Approaches
Challenging Ideas
Convincing People
Exploring Possibilities
Generating Ideas
Technical Competencies:
Banking Process & Procedures
Coaching and Mentoring
Financial Acumen
IT Programme Management
Performance Management
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Manager, Product Development
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Standard Bank Group is a leading Africa-focused financial services group, and an innovative player on the global stage, that offers a variety of career-enhancing opportunities – plus the chance to work alongside some of the sector's most talented, motivated professionals. Our clients range from individuals, to businesses of all sizes, high net worth families and large multinational corporates and institutions. We're passionate about creating growth in Africa. Bringing true, meaningful value to our clients and the communities we serve and creating a real sense of purpose for you.
Job Description
To lead and manage the end-to-end product development process, by defining the customer discovery and design thinking strategies, so as to oversee project execution and launch new digital products. To collaborate with cross-functional teams, conduct market research, and leverage their expertise to ensure the timely delivery of innovative products that meet customer needs and align with business objectives.
- Develop and define the Customer Discovery and Design Thinking Strategy in line with the Innovation-as-a-Service and the Group Innovation strategies, setting the research, discovery and design standards and methodologies to be utilised within the area of expertise.
- Identify and track new digital solution design trends, emerging digital product discoveries and business opportunities, so that they may be applied during the customer discovery and design thinking phase of the digital value stream, to ensure continuous competitiveness with the latest market development and to meet the requirements of all key stakeholders.
- Understand and co-create innovative Ecosystems and Platforms, in collaboration with the Product Owners, Platform Owners and Product Managers, by supporting team members to drive the targeted execution of solutions in order to ensure that all the Digital Product Solutions are well established and managed with regards to key stakeholder requirements.
- Develop customer discovery and design thinking standards in consultation with the organisation and solution owners to ensure consistency and compatibility in approaches to solution definitions and developments.
- Facilitate target-state client journey mapping, by understanding the motivational drivers of clients, customers and/or solution users, and the moments that matter to derive possible solution features as required to be part of a target state; while being cognisant of individual client journeys and customer experience touchpoints, to develop a Digital Product Solution experience that will enhance customer satisfaction
Qualifications
- Degree: Business Commerce (Min)
- Post Graduate Qualification: Business Commerce (Pref)
Additional Information
Experience Required:
Digital & eCommerce
- 5-7 Years: Experience throughout the entire value stream of design thinking and the requirements in each. Proven experience in problem definition and solution development across a wide array of projects; Proven experience in leading specialised research and data and analytics teams. Proven experience scoping and driving design sprints, prototyping and testing solutions.
- 5-7 Years: Consume and comprehend general IT / technology applications and aspects, such as architecture diagrams, API and SRE, utilising data, analytics, research and development to oversee and drive system and software enhancements, stand their ground with technology and system experts, in order to ensure and drive IT lifecycle management related to process engineering product offerings across the African continent and the Group.
- 5-7 Years: Drive a multifunctional team and provide advise and insight pertaining to Digital enhancements, developments and industry research, to enable strategic business decisions. Engage and collaborate with other enabling/supporting functions across the Standard Bank Group (e.g., Compliance, Legal, IT, and Research & Operations) to obtain support/ information to manage the end-to-end product value stream. Engage with Finance to analyse product/project financial performance, planning and budgeting.
Behavioural Competencies:
- Adopting Practical Approaches
- Challenging Ideas
- Convincing People
- Exploring Possibilities
- Generating Ideas
Technical Competencies:
- Banking Process & Procedures
- Coaching and Mentoring
- Financial Acumen
- IT Programme Management
- Performance Management
Assistant Product Development Manager
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SIQALO Foods
is seeking to employ an
Assistant Product Development Manager
. The role will be based in
Boksburg
and will report into the
R&D Product & Process Manager
.
The Assistant Product Development Manager will be responsible for managing the research, planning, coordination and execution of:
- New product development.
- Product quality improvements.
- Cost saving initiatives.
- Product and technical support from concept brief to product launch.