479 Product Owner jobs in South Africa

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Sand Technologies is a fast-growing enterprise AI company that solves real-world problems for large blue-chip companies and governments worldwide.

We’re pioneers of meaningful AI : our solutions go far beyond chatbots. We are using data and AI to solve the world’s biggest issues in telecommunications, sustainable water management, energy, healthcare, climate change, smart cities, and other areas that have a real impact on the world. For example, our AI systems help to manage the water supply for the entire city of London. We created the AI algorithms that enabled the 7th largest telecommunications company in the world to plan its network in 300 cities in record time. And we built a digital healthcare system that enables 30m people in a country to get world-class healthcare despite a shortage of doctors.

We’ve grown our revenues by over 500% in the last 12 months while winning prestigious scientific and industry awards for our cutting-edge technology. We’re underpinned by over 300 engineers and scientists working across Africa, Europe, the UK and the US.

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Product Owner to join our dynamic team building the user interface for our cutting-edge Data Science and AI platform. This platform empowers data scientists and AI engineers to build, train, and deploy sophisticated models.

As the Product Owner, you will be the voice of the customer and will be responsible for defining, prioritizing, and managing the product backlog to deliver a world-class user experience. You will work closely with a talented team of designers and engineers in a fast-paced, agile environment.

• Product Vision & Strategy: Collaborate with stakeholders to define the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the platform's user interface
• Backlog Management: Own and maintain the product backlog, ensuring it is prioritized, refined, and reflects the needs of users and the business
• User Story Creation: Write clear, concise, and testable user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria, focusing on user value and business objectives
• Sprint Planning & Execution: Actively participate in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives, ensuring smooth sprint execution
• Stakeholder Management: Effectively communicate with stakeholders, including data scientists, AI engineers, product managers, and business leaders, to gather feedback and ensure alignment
• User Research & Analysis: Conduct user research, analyze user feedback, and use data to inform product decisions and prioritize features
• Acceptance Testing: Ensure that delivered increments meet the defined acceptance criteria and quality standards
• Roadmap Planning: Contribute to the overall product roadmap, ensuring alignment with the broader product strategy

• Proven experience as a Product Owner in an Agile development environment (Scrum or Kanban) building front end applications
• Demonstrable experience in writing user stories, managing product backlogs, and prioritizing features
• Strong understanding of agile principles and practices, including sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear and concise user stories
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience working with design and engineering teams
• A passion for building user-centric products
• Relevant undergraduate degree; MSc preferred

• Experience working on data science or AI-related products or platforms
• Familiarity with UI/UX design principles
• Experience with user research methodologies
• CSM (Certified Scrum Master) or CSPO (Certified Scrum Product Owner) certification

• Courage: Willingness to speak up, challenge the status quo, and embrace new challenges.
• Humility: Openness to learning, seeking help when needed, and a focus on serving others.
• Adventure: A passion for setting ambitious goals, tackling difficult tasks, and finding joy in the journey.
• Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, a sense of ownership, and a willingness to go above and beyond.
• Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks, persevere through challenges, and emerge stronger.

Due to the considerable amount of virtual work and interaction with colleagues and customers in different physical locations internationally, it is essential that the successful applicant has the drive and ethic to succeed in working in small teams physically but in larger efforts virtually. Self-drive to communicate constantly using web collaboration and video conferencing is essential.

If you're ready to transform businesses around the world with AI technology, we'd love to hear from you. Please submit your resume detailing your experience and vision for the role.

Job title: Product Owner

Reporting to: Product Manager or Head of Product

Location: Cape Town

WHAT WE DO

Lula is an innovative and human-focused FinTech company on a mission to help small businesses optimise their cash flow. Our purpose is to help SMEs manage their businesses better, faster, and more simply, so they can spend more time doing what they love.

If you’re looking for a new place to call ‘home’ that believes in the potential of the broader SME landscape in South Africa and a place where you’ll work with awesome people - then Lula’s the place for you!

We’re making business banking fast, human, Lula!

CULTURE CODE

We embrace C uriosity

We win as O ne

We’re D riven by Purpose

We E xecute with Ambition

OVERALL PURPOSE

The role works very closely with our Engineering team to define and manage our product backlog, ensuring we deliver a best-in-class product. Working collaboratively with our Delivery Teams to ensure the timely, reliable delivery of Lula products.

The current Tech team is lean so you’ll work alongside our Developers to remove blockers, work effectively and continuously adapt to ensure we deliver the best product to our customers. You’ll be successful in the role, if you can inspire and motivate our Engineering team to deliver top-class solutions with a healthy sense of urgency.

Responsibilities will include:

• Evaluate business ideas by assessing business value and urgency.
• Develop business cases with business teams and senior product team members to determine commercial, operational and technical feasibility of ideas.
• Managing the product backlog, prioritizing in line with business objectives by determining and managing budget, scope and time constraints.
• Overseeing the development of our products by playing a key role in planning.
• Stakeholder management - you are the link between stakeholders and our Engineering team, ensuring buy-in and the delivery of clear instructions and deliverables for our Developers.
• Adopting a mindset of product iteration, responsible for evaluating progress at each stage of the development process.

THE COMPETENCIES WE’RE AFTER

• Confident decision-maker
• Ability to execute and get things over the line
• Strong collaboration skills and a passion for working with people
• Positive, high energy and committed to the mission and our values
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Knowledge of customer desires and behaviors
• Willingness to roll up your sleeves in a start-up, entrepreneurial environment
• Excellent stakeholder management skills
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills

THE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE WE’RE LOOKING FOR

• Bachelor degree in a relevant field or equivalent
• Product owner certification an added bonus
• 2-3 years experience as a Product Owner, ideally within a start-up or high-growth company
• Experience with prototyping, testing, and validating product hypotheses
• Managing and building out a backlog with a focus on iterative and continuous delivery
• Hands-on experience working with Engineering teams in an Agile environment
• Experience building products iteratively by applying lean principles and focusing on MVPs
• Understanding of agile development process
• Technical acumen and genuine passion for technology
• Understanding of core concepts related to UI/UX design

We are looking for a Product Owner who is adaptable, analytically minded, a strong problem-solver, an excellent communicator, and eager to drive improvements.

Our mission is to transform the Forex industry in South Africa through premium support, automation, innovation (ie. Blockchain), and complete transparency. In addition to this, we also continue to enhance our Crypto Arbitrage investment product, which to date yields returns leagues ahead of traditional investments, making it one of the best-performing investment products in South Africa.

Future Forex is powered by a young, open-minded team that values autonomy and works remotely. We’re looking to grow exponentially in the Forex space and need to scale our service efficiently to do so.

We recently rolled out our cutting-edge Forex platform and mobile app, and have some exciting projects planned. This means you’ll play a massive role in setting product direction, owning projects end to end and be perfectly positioned to become an integral part of the team as we continue growing. Going forward, we aim to expand globally and leverage our agility, inventiveness and drive to improve the livelihoods of billions. Joining now offers the rare opportunity to play a massive role in this goal.

To grow our service offering, we need to enhance our existing platform, expand our service with new features, and begin to look beyond the local Forex space at other exciting opportunities.

We are looking for a Product Owner who is adaptable, smart, confident working autonomously and keen to help us make the above a reality!

• Develop streamlined products for our Forex and Arbitrage services
• Plan and manage projects end-to-end
• Put yourself in the client’s shoes to develop the best possible user experience
• Understand, systemise and document business processes
• Coordinate with our operations team, engineering team, and other stakeholders to iron out processes and develop holistic solutions
• Quality control new features to ensure they’re up to spec
• Continuously analyse, improve and adapt existing products

• At least 2 years' experience in a product, or similar, role
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (i.e. Engineering, data analytics, etc)
• Experience in the finance space is beneficial, but not necessary
• Excellent problem-solving, with the ability to quickly map out a MVP
• The ability to wear multiple hats to work with a multitude of teams and solve a variety of problems
• Strong UX/UI intuition to guide early designs
• Technical know-how to effectively work with the engineering teams
• Highly organised with an affinity towards keeping things neat and tidy
• Sound communication skills to coordinate teams effectively
• Deliverable focused with an eye for detail
• A start-up mindset, comfortable with products failing and having to be rapidly iterated
• Comfortable as a self-starter working remotely

• We’re deliverable focused: Working a set number of hours a week is not important to us. What matters is how quickly we can bring high quality deliverables to production. If you’re focused and effective, you’ll find yourself well-rewarded!
• We reward excellence: We deeply appreciate anyone who relishes making a real impact and is happy to go the extra mile in doing so. We are quick to reward those who overachieve with deserving performance bonuses.
• We don’t like micromanaging: We want to integrate you quickly so you can manage your own time and projects. That being said, we love collaboration, so we’re always happy to help one another and will never leave you in the dark!
• We’re all about transparency: We believe transparency is key to our success and have made it the cornerstone of our investment offering, giving clients full access to their funds and trading history at all times. We also focus on transparency amongst our team, creating an enjoyable and inclusive workplace.

If you think you'd be a great fit for the above, please fill out the form below to apply:

Let's talk and find out.

About Us:

Welcome to Rentoza! We're a South African company that's changing the game in e-commerce. Our subscription service for digital goods and appliances is making access, affordability, and flexibility a reality for our customers.

The Role:

The Product Owner is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and managing the product backlog to deliver high-impact digital solutions. This role bridges the gap between business objectives and development teams by translating customer needs into actionable user stories, ensuring continuous product improvement, and driving value delivery in an Agile environment.

Key Role & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define a clear product vision aligned with business objectives and customer needs.
• Contribute towards developing and maintaining a product roadmap, ensuring alignment with company goals and market trends.
• Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and customer feedback collection to inform product direction.

• Own, manage, and prioritize the product backlog to ensure delivery of high-value features.
• Write clear, actionable user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, marketing, and sales) to refine backlog items and ensure development efforts align with business goals.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

• Define and validate requirements for new features, enhancements, and bug fixes based on user feedback and business priorities.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create intuitive, user-centric digital experiences.
• Act as the key point of contact for the development team, providing clarifications and ensuring timely feature delivery.
• Conduct user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate product functionality before deployment.

• Serve as the primary liaison between business units and the development team, ensuring effective communication and alignment of expectations.
• Communicate product updates, priorities, and roadmaps to key stakeholders.
• Gather feedback from internal and external users to continuously improve the product.

• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) to track product success.
• Analyze product performance using data insights and user feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Identify process bottlenecks and propose data-driven strategies for optimization.

• Ensure all product development initiatives comply with relevant regulations and security best practices.
• Work with legal, compliance, and risk teams to mitigate potential risks related to product implementation.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, Marketing, or related fields.
• 3-5 years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role in a digital/tech-driven environment.
• Experience working in Agile environments, particularly with Scrum or SAFe frameworks.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, Agile methodologies, and backlog prioritization.
• Familiarity with eCommerce, fintech, or SaaS products is a plus.

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills – Ability to translate data insights into actionable decisions.
• Excellent communication & stakeholder management – Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with Agile tools – Jira, Confluence, Trello, or similar.
• Technical understanding – Ability to collaborate with engineers on feasibility, scalability, and implementation.
• User-centric mindset – Passion for building products that solve real user problems.

Benefits:

Offices:

• Johannesburg
• Cape Town
• Durban

Perks:

• Friday lunches
• Monthly socials
• Medical aid
• Employee Health and Wellness Assistance
• Access to cutting edge technology
• Transport for late shift workers
• Hybrid (where applicable)

If you're passionate about technology and want to work in a fast-paced environment where you can make a real difference, Rentoza is the place for you. Join our team and be part of something truly exciting!

About Us:

Welcome to Rentoza! We're a South African company that's changing the game in e-commerce. Our subscription service for digital goods and appliances is making access, affordability, and flexibility a reality for our customers.

The Role:

The Product Owner is responsible for defining, prioritizing, and managing the product backlog to deliver high-impact digital solutions. This role bridges the gap between business objectives and development teams by translating customer needs into actionable user stories, ensuring continuous product improvement, and driving value delivery in an Agile environment.

Key Role & Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with stakeholders to define a clear product vision aligned with business objectives and customer needs.
• Contribute towards developing and maintaining a product roadmap, ensuring alignment with company goals and market trends.
• Conduct market research, competitor analysis, and customer feedback collection to inform product direction.

• Own, manage, and prioritize the product backlog to ensure delivery of high-value features.
• Write clear, actionable user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams (engineering, design, marketing, and sales) to refine backlog items and ensure development efforts align with business goals.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

• Define and validate requirements for new features, enhancements, and bug fixes based on user feedback and business priorities.
• Collaborate with UX/UI designers to create intuitive, user-centric digital experiences.
• Act as the key point of contact for the development team, providing clarifications and ensuring timely feature delivery.
• Conduct user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate product functionality before deployment.

• Serve as the primary liaison between business units and the development team, ensuring effective communication and alignment of expectations.
• Communicate product updates, priorities, and roadmaps to key stakeholders.
• Gather feedback from internal and external users to continuously improve the product.

• Define key performance indicators (KPIs) to track product success.
• Analyze product performance using data insights and user feedback to drive continuous improvement.
• Identify process bottlenecks and propose data-driven strategies for optimization.

• Ensure all product development initiatives comply with relevant regulations and security best practices.
• Work with legal, compliance, and risk teams to mitigate potential risks related to product implementation.

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Finance, Marketing, or related fields.
• 3-5 years of experience as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, or similar role in a digital/tech-driven environment.
• Experience working in Agile environments, particularly with Scrum or SAFe frameworks.
• Strong understanding of product lifecycle management, Agile methodologies, and backlog prioritization.
• Familiarity with eCommerce, fintech, or SaaS products is a plus.

Key Skills & Competencies:

• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills – Ability to translate data insights into actionable decisions.
• Excellent communication & stakeholder management – Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with Agile tools – Jira, Confluence, Trello, or similar.
• Technical understanding – Ability to collaborate with engineers on feasibility, scalability, and implementation.
• User-centric mindset – Passion for building products that solve real user problems.

Benefits:

Offices:

• Johannesburg
• Cape Town
• Durban

Perks:

• Friday lunches
• Monthly socials
• Medical aid
• Employee Health and Wellness Assistance
• Access to cutting edge technology
• Transport for late shift workers
• Hybrid (where applicable)

If you're passionate about technology and want to work in a fast-paced environment where you can make a real difference, Rentoza is the place for you. Join our team and be part of something truly exciting!

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We’re looking for a dynamic, forward-thinker that can have a foot in the strategic long-term view, while operating in the day-to-day tactical world of Product Development.

Overview

We’re looking for a dynamic, forward-thinker that can have a foot in the strategic long-term view, while operating in the day-to-day tactical world of Product Development.

As the Product Owner, you will play a pivotal role in defining the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the timely delivery of high-quality products that meet market needs and enhance user satisfaction.

Expertise in Microsoft Dynamics 365 will be key in leading our efforts to optimise our business processes and enhancing customer experiences through this powerful platform.

Tasks include:

• Define and communicate the product vision and strategy aligned with company goals.
• Turning company goals into prioritised features within a product roadmap.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Liaison with stakeholders, including customers, leadership, and engineering, to gather and prioritise requirements.
• Backlog Prioritisation: Create and manage a detailed, prioritised backlog ensuring it aligns with the strategic vision and goals.
• Microsoft Dynamics 365 expertise: Leverage in-depth knowledge of Dynamics 365 modules to guide configuration and integration efforts.
• Agile Practices: Lead Scrum teams, participate in Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups,
• Review and Retrospectives to deliver high-impact product increments.
• User Stories & Acceptance Criteria: Write clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria ensuring development matches expectations and delivers value.
• Product Lifecycle Management: Oversee the product's lifecycle from conception through launch and beyond, ensuring continual improvement and market relevance.
• Market Research & Analysis: Conduct competitor research, market analysis, and engage with customers to inform product direction and innovation.
• Performance Tracking: Outcome driven, defining and tracking key performance metrics to evaluate product success and areas for improvement.
• Strong believer in using research to drive and validate hypothesis ensuring customer-centricity leads.
  
  

• Qualifications: Relevant degree in Business, Computer Science, or related field
• Certified Product owner or similar
• Experience: At least 6 years as a Product Owner.
• Skills and Knowledge:
• Strong understanding of Agile methodologies.
• Experience in Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Understanding of the Claims environment within the Life Insurance industry advantageous.
• Excellent communication, presentation and leadership skills so that the team is comfortable taking direction from you and stakeholders enjoy collaborating with you.
• Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams in a hybrid manner.
• Excellent prioritisation skills based on value.
• Creative problem-solving skills and willingness to think outside the box.
• Experience with product lifecycle management and software development tools such as Jira.

• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Product Management and Marketing

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As the Product Owner, you will take guidance and direction from the Product Manager in line with the business' strategic objectives. You will be expected to collaborate with business stakeholders, customers, business partners, UX, and Technology teams to build products or features that deliver business value.

Ideal candidate experience:

1. 3+ years in relevant industry experience
2. Certifications: Product Management, Agile, Scrum, Safe, Business Analysis, Design Thinking, etc. will be advantageous
3. Experienced in JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Github, Miro, Visio
4. You can lead and direct a Scrum team delivering on your roadmap

Our client, a leading Financial Services company, is currently looking to contract an experienced Product Owner to join their team on a contract basis.

Responsibilities include:

1. Prioritising work to achieve optimal business value through team delivery.
2. Accountable for the product backlog – creates, adds, removes, and refines.
3. Empowered to accept or reject the work delivered by the development team.
4. Project management.
5. Business Analysis.

Minimum Requirements:

• Matric / Grade 12.
• Tertiary Qualification - Degree in Information Systems coupled with Product Owner / Business Analysis Certification.
• Minimum 3 years experience in Business Analysis / Project Management coupled with 2 years experience as Product Owner essential, gained within a Financial Services environment.
• Understanding and practicing the Waterfall and Agile principles and values.
• Minimum of 3 years experience working in both traditional waterfall and agile solution delivery environments.

Salary: Market Related

WHY JOIN THE JSE? The JSE recognises that its success and strength depend on the quality of its employees. We are committed to fostering a culture of continuous learning and high standards of performance. Our employee wellness programme is designed to encourage work-life balance for employees. We naturally seek to empower staff and encourage diversity and opportunities for all.

To maximise business value through representing the voice of the customer and acting as an ambassador for issuer regulation, ensuring the right products and services are delivered to Issuer Regulation and its customers (internal and external) within regulatory requirements and obligations whilst balancing the risk the JSE faces and the need to be business enabling whilst achieving the JSE strategic priorities. Ensuring that the issuer regulation team as well as our regulated entities are prepared and ready for the implementation of strategic JSE initiatives that impact them by using experience and knowledge to drive change.

Business and Financial Results Management and Delivery

• Provide thought leadership and input into the Issuer Regulation Divisional strategy.
• Provide input into divisional budget to meet requirements and targets. Manage and develop all LPM deliverables for Issuer Regulation Division, Capex budgets and business cases, ensuring continued compliance to targets for ROI and productivity. Monitor expenses against allocated Capital budgets ensuring cost-effective ways of achieving departmental goals.
• Manage and prioritise the Product Backlog in collaboration with the Issuer Regulation team in accordance with business value and customer requirements.
• Implement departmental IT strategy by ensuring there are business and project release plans in place, monitor activities according to plans, ensure execution of deliverables within agreed timelines, identify cross dependencies between plans and take corrective action when required.
• Ensure the existence of a shared vision for IR Solutions and be the champion for realising this vision through the delivery of the right products to customers (internal & external).
• Manage all and ensure continuous communication to stakeholders and clients regarding progress and manage their expectations including making trade-offs where required.
• Enforce and maintain minimum set of divisional Business Continuity and Recovery procedures, Disaster Recovery checklists and documents, and coordinate IR team member participation and responsibilities during mandated internal and Disaster Recovery test execution.

Stakeholder Relationship Management

• Understand clients’ needs by listening to their needs and influencing the outcomes to meet the requirements within project constraints whilst still protecting the JSE project delivery.
• Build long-term relationships and networks with stakeholders through effective communication, holding regular stakeholder forums, continuous engagement, and collaboration.
• Provide training to internal and external parties on new and amendments to Issuer Regulation systems.
• Manage all communication with Regulated entities on systems and business continuity events requirements.

Process Management

• Gather requirements from internal and external parties on Issuer Regulation systems, develop appropriately detailed specifications for product features so that they are clearly understood by the various groups of stakeholders (e.g., development teams, customers, support teams, etc.).
• Translate functional strategy into department delivery strategy for IT systems, project plans, backlogs, and deliverables. Develop user readiness and communication approach and plan and monitor progress against plan.
• Identify risks and issues to the project or market readiness by continuously being in touch with stakeholders for the project to ensure the right mitigation is in place.
• Quality assure documentation provided to clients to ensure it meets JSE corporate branding and project standard and avoid ambiguity to clients.
• Produce status reports to monitor readiness to check on track against timelines.
• Coordinate the market-facing activities by ensuring various activities and business scenarios are executed to track progress and assess readiness internally and externally.
• Actively participate and prepare accurate and concise IR inputs required for Programme Increment (PI) or Big Room Planning.
• Prepare and conduct Iteration Planning sessions by reviewing and reprioritising items on the backlog.
• Compile and maintain the IR technology program vision, roadmap, and content presentations.
• Collaborate with other Product Owners to understand, manage, and coordinate cross dependencies.

Team Management

• Collaborating across teams, define and implement improvement stories to increase the velocity and quality of the program.

Transformation and Innovation Management

• Build a culture of improvement to ensure optimisation of the function as business demands change by encouraging and recognising appropriate ideas.
• Optimise and improve systems and work processes to drive productivity and reduce costs. Analyse, research, develop and implement improvement/innovative ideas and value-adding solutions contributing to divisional and JSE results.

Minimum Qualifications

• Commerce or Information Technology Degree. Post Graduate Qualification preferred.
• Member of Agile forums (preferred but not essential).
• Minimum of 10 years working experience in Financial Services or IT industry including at least 5 years in a lead role on projects and solutions engaging with large and diverse groups of stakeholders or as a business/product owner level.

Knowledge and Skills Required

• JSE culture and values
• JSE policies and procedures
• JSE vision and strategy
• Data Analysis
• JSE Human Resources policies and practices
• Relevant JSE product and system knowledge
• Relevant regulatory knowledge
• Relevant Industry knowledge
• Business continuity and resilience standards and procedures
• Agile and DevOps knowledge
• Competency in software applications (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, Access, Internet, Email)
• Assurance/Audit core concepts and standards
• Delivery Risk Management
• Divisional service offerings
• High level understanding of Financial Market Infrastructure legal and regulatory landscape
• Business principles
• Decision-making process
• Diversity management
• Industry trends on products relevant to the Regulatory function
• Business terms and definitions
• Business writing
• Business metrics
• Change Management and Stakeholder Management
• Support and empower a high performing delivery team
• Prepare and present to senior leaders and external stakeholders
• Decision making
• Identifying trends
• Challenging the status quo with a view to improving the environment or people's understanding
• Drafting reports
• Establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers, subordinates, and managers
• Creating a business plan
• Building and maintaining effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Maintaining and producing capex budgets for the divisional IT solutions
• Developing a client service delivery plan
• Displaying high level of ethics, integrity and confidentiality
• Excellent communication – verbal and written
• Completing a project with constraints
• Developing multiple creative solutions
• Prepare training material and facilitate stakeholder training sessions
• Collect, research and interpret information and integrate different sources of information