Product Manager at LATC Group

LATC is a proprietary investment firm committed to delivering strategic, high - quality services across multiple sectors such as Agriculture, Marine Logistics, Retail Franchising and Real Estate. Our mission is to create lasting impact in the communities where w e operate by building socially responsible businesses that are partners of choice in their industries.

LATC has secured a strategic retail partnership to represent a premium consumer electronics brand in Nigeria. As part of this partnership, LATC will establish flagship physical and online stores that serve as the definitive expression of the brand in the Nigerian market, offering authentic products and the brand's signature customer experience.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Product Manager

Location: Lagos
Subsidiary/Department: LAT C / Commercial Performance

Job Objective

• The Product Manager is the internal digital product owner, responsible for defining, prioritizing, and driving the development of internal tools and systems that improve employee productivity and business operations
• This role is the organization's internal product champion — where product management discipline determines whether internal tools solve real problems or become shelfware.

Roles and Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Roadmap (Vision):

• Gather and analyze user requirements through interviews, observation, feedback analysis, and user testing to validate needs before and after development.
• Translate requirements into clear user stories, acceptance criteria, wireframes, and prototypes to effectively communicate product concepts and gather feedback.
• Prioritize features and enhancements based on user value, business impact, and development effort, ensuring alignment with product goals.
• Maintain and manage the product backlog with clearly defined well-prioritized items to support efficient delivery.

Development & Delivery (Execution):

• Work closely with the Solutions Manager on low - code solutions and internal development initiatives, while coordinating with IT and external developers on more complex product builds.
• Participate actively in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, stand -ups, reviews, and  retrospectives, while making informed scope and trade -off decisions when development constraints arise.
• Conduct thorough quality assurance to ensure delivered products meet defined requirements and user expectations.
• Manage product releases end to end, including stakeholder communication, training, and rollout coordination

Adoption & Value Management (Impact):

• Drive user adoption through effective training, communication, and change management initiatives.
• Monitor product usage and performance, continuously gathering user feedback to identify issues, opportunities, and areas for improvement.
• Measure, analyze, and report product impact against defined success metrics to assess value delivery.
• Identify optimization opportunities to enhance product value and user experience, and sunset underperforming products or features that do not deliver value.

Reporting Relationships
Internal Interfaces:

• Reports to:
  • Commercial Performance Manager
• Direct Reports:
  • None (Individual Contributor, works with Solutions Manager and external developers)
• Other Internal Relationships:
  • Finance
  • IT
  • Marketing & Branding

External Interfaces:

• Software Vendors
• Development Agencies
• IT Partners
• System Integrators

Requirements
Educational Qualification:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Computer Science/Information Systems, Engineering, Economics, or any related discipline with strong analytical and communication skills.
• Professional certifications in product management certifications (AIPMM, Pragmatic Institute), Agile/Scrum certifications (CSPO, SAFe), UX design fundamentals, and technical certifications relevant to the product domai n are an added advantage.

Experience (What You Have Done):

• 4-6+ years in product management, business analysis, or related roles.
• Experience in internal tools or enterprise software, SaaS or technology companies, consulting with a focus on digital transformation, or retail/operations roles involving digital product experience.
• Proven track record of launching products that achieved adoption and delivered value, managing product backlogs and roadmaps, collaborating with development teams to deliver quality products, and gathering and translating user requirements into effective s olutions.

Knowledge (What You Must Know):

• Product management methodologies and best practices
• Agile development processes (Scrum, Kanban)
• User experience (UX) principles
• Software development lifecycle basics
• Business process and workflow design

Skills (What You Must Be Able to Do):

• Requirements Definition: Translate user needs into clear, actionable product requirements
• Prioritization: Make trade -off decisions that maximize value within constraints
• Stakeholder Management: Align diverse stakeholders around product decisions
• Communication: Articulate product vision, requirements, and status clearly
• Analytical Thinking: Use data to inform product decisions and measure success

Abilities (How You Think & Operate):

• Ability to balance user needs with business constraints — empathy plus pragmatism
• Strong decision -making , comfortable making calls with incomplete information
• Customer obsession — genuinely cares about solving user problems
• Collaborative leadership — influences without authority across functions
• Results orientation — measures success by adoption and impact, not just delivery

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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