Lead, Product at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited

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: Lead, Product

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

Job Description
Product Planning and Strategy:

• Initiate and execute projects to provide strategic direction for innovative growth opportunities that leverage technology trends, market trends and integrated solutions.
• Develop user-centric product plans and identify new product opportunities by periodically conducting voice of the customer (VOC) research.
• Initiate, develop and maintain long term product strategies/road maps for our product portfolio.

Product Performance:

• Collaborating with the ES Engineering in product implementation. 
• Collaborating with the product design team to create intuitive designs.
• Collaborating with product users to align on user requirements and critical operational functions.
• Contributing to a pro-active, self-motivating Scrum team, the technical architecture and implementation, and team efficiency initiatives and culture
• Consistently testing product performance, functionality, component(s) and systems
• Risk management; escalating where required.
• Initiate and implement product strategies and plans for the portfolio and coordinate necessary cross-functional activities.
• Identify and drive process improvement within the product management function.

Customer Focus:

• Communicate with, and deeply understand customers, technology, and competition, and synthesize into product strategy
• Develop product requirement and priorities and communicate same  across the company by collaboration and building consensus
• Define key metrics that define the success of products
• Integrate user research studies, analytics, and market analysis into product requirements
• Participate in product user research, product design reviews and demos

Requirements

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities. 
• Minimum 5 years experience in Product Management, Business Development or related experience.
• Experience interacting with both internal and external customers.
• Ability to analyze, interpret and draw meaningful and accurate conclusions from data.
• The successful candidate will be expected to be a high-energy, creative and resourceful self-starter.
• Ability to effectively and actively communicate with both business, technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills
• Strong work ethic and demonstrated a willingness to drive projects to closure
• Strong deductive reasoning and attention to detail
• Ability to efficiently manage multiple projects in a fast-paced & dynamic environment under tight timelines, while adaptive to change
• Strong sense of customer service to consistently and effectively addresses customer needs
• Knowledge of Agile software development framework, architecture concepts, and terminology
• Experience and/or accreditation in Scrum framework a plus

Benefits

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

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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