Senior Product Manager at Babban Gona

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Product Manager

Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time

Key Responsibilities
Product Management:

• Develop product requirements and roadmaps
• Leading product managers and coordinating with engineering, operations and other teams
• Incorporating feedback and input from customers, partners and in-house teams on product strategy and finding ways to expand product market reach
• Develop and implement product strategies consistent with company vision
• Collect and analyze feedback from customers, stakeholders and other teams to shape requirements, features and end products
• Work with senior management to create product plans and roadmaps
• Lead product managers and coordinate cross-functional teams
• Produce and review product requirements documents (PRD)
• Ensure products and releases are launched correctly and on schedule
• Make creative recommendations to expand product base and vision
• Suggest ways to track product use and impact on end users
• Collaborate with engineering team, product owners, program managers to share required product properties
• Collaborate with the Scrum Master on the product backlog prioritization to ensure incremental delivery of features
• Create clear-cut product requirements and  product design documents for internal team.
• Collaborate and iterate with other stakeholders to manage competing priorities and guide decision making in-line business strategies.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Systems Engineering team to negotiate on the technical implementation options and make decisions based on the customer and business needs
• Create vision and multi-year roadmaps for products and programs; seek feedback/buy-in on roadmap as needed; keep roadmap up-to-date and in sync with development
• Exercise knowledge of Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) to enhance product features and internal processes
• Utilize meaningful KPIs and metrics to articulate progress made and impact on the customers; plan for capturing and reporting success metrics from the beginning
• Establish and review test plans; lead UAT to ensure team capability requirements and deadlines are met
• Conduct periodic feedback sessions with Enterprise Systems Engineering teams to continuously iterate and improve team processes and performance

Reporting Line:

• This position reports to Head, Enterprise Systems Product.

Requirements

• Proven Experience in Product Management Role
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or Bachelor's degree with equivalent professional experience
• Proven experience as a Product Manager, Program or similar role
• Experience in product lifecycle management
• Background in software development and program management is preferred
• Familiarity with Agile framework
• Excellent communication skills; organizational and leadership abilities
• Problem-solving aptitude; creative thinking skills
• In Depth knowledge and hands-on experience of modern technology stack
• Demonstrated ability to understand business need and accurately interpret data to support data driven decision-making
• Demonstrated ability to interpret data to derive business insights.

Other Requirements:

• Demonstrated experience with workflow management systems; experience with Atlassian tools (Jira Core, Jira Software, Jira Service Desk)
• Experience collaborating with Enterprise Systems Engineering Operations at a reasonable level of technical depth
• Ability to efficiently prioritize projects and manage multiple dynamic priorities
• Proven ability to leverage technology to translate business requirements
• Ability to provide support to; and collaborate with internal units and external groups to achieve business objectives.

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.