We are looking for a candidate to join the team at BeFC to manage the development ofour digital logistics label product(s); creating, maintaining and monitoring, the specific product roadmap(s) and ensuring customer(s) needs are met.
The candidate will be managed by the CPO.
The post holder will be expected to perform staff managerial duties to fulfill the role.
BeFC encourage and support the personal and professional development of our staff.
Individual development needs will be identified through a regular review process.
From time to time, the post holder may be asked to assist with Continuing Professional Development (CPD) activities. This will form part of a substantive role and no additional payment for these activities should be expected.
The ideal candidate is self-motivated and will bring evidence-based decision making to the forefront of product design and delivery, whilst promoting collaboration within and between teams, ultimately ensuring choices are aligned with maximising business opportunities.
1) Ensures the product responds to the customers’ pain points and translates business/customer requirements into technical specifications and vice versa.
2) Bridges the gap between customer expectations and engineering realities.
3) Creates, maintains, prioriotises, and sequences the product backlog based on business value or return on investment.
4) Creates acceptance tests from themes and features granular enough for single sprints, and clearly defines any and all project constraints.
5) Drives design decisions based on deep insights into pain points, behaviours, preferences, and motivations of customers.
6) Integrates user experiences into the product design.
7) Manage from concept to design: sample production, testing, forecast, production cost, promotion, support, and finally product end-of-life.
8) Developing and executing strategic plans for product delivery in alignment with the organisation’s overall goals and objectives.
9) Overseeing the entire lifecycle of product programs from planning and development to execution and delivery.
10) Works with management to ensure correct resource allocation to achieve timebound targets and maps out realistic project dependencies.
11) Ensure seamless cross-functional collaboration, coordination and alignment throughout the product program lifecycle.
12) Identifying risks within the roadmaps.
13) Recommend future product feature prioritisation to management.
14) Enforce quality standards for product programs.
15) Monitors the market and researches competitors and similar products.
16) Contributes towards a high-level dashboard to visualise progress made against certain key performance indicators, objectives, and key results.
17) Ensure timely completion of product development workpackages without significant cost overruns.
18) Articulates what product success looks like with clear quantifiable metrics.
19) Interacts and validates requirements of customers and stakeholders.
20) Communicating, data analysis and reporting regularly with stakeholders
Graduate with relevant background (Master’s degree or equivalent) in fields including business, management, marketing or engineering
Minimum 3 years’ experience in a similar role
Strong business acumen to ensure choices are aligned with maximising business opportunities
Ability to develop strong relationships and drive collaboration
Fair and objective when presenting or making decisions
Strong technical and project management capabilities
Experience in planning, monitoring and supervising relevant staff
Proficiency in preparing clear and concise reports, correspondence, and other written records
Impeccable communication skills and capable of collaborating closely with other teams and variety of stakeholders at different levels of seniority and knowledge
Meticulous, taking pride in the quality of their work
Organised and rigorous
Impeccable interpersonal communication skills
Objective-oriented
Minimum 2 years’ experience in a management role
Good knowledge of the market vertical (e.g., digital logistics solutions, and/or digital sensor platforms)
Understanding of English language, both written and oral