Product Manager - Payments at Omnibiz Africa

At Omnibiz, we’re fully dedicated to supporting local businesses and helping them navigate the modern market. Over 52,000 businesses across the FMCG industry have trusted us to provide them with the services and necessary tools to overcome contemporary challenges in the marketplace. Why? The answer is simple - they believe the same thing that we at Omnibiz believe: for the global economy to thrive, local businesses must be given the grounds to grow.

As our adventure evolves, we will continue to support local businesses, provide retailers with the necessary tools to thrive in today’s market, partner with industry stakeholders, and relentlessly pursue opportunities to help Africa’s economy grow.

Our work has only just begun and although the current results are encouraging, we also realize that the road ahead is long and full of challenges. Regardless, we are excited about the opportunities that exist, the pathways we are creating, and the businesses we are building relationships with.

We are recruiting to fill the position of:

Job Title: Product Manager - Payments

Locations: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Job Description

• The Omnibiz Products Team is looking for an innovative, customer-obsessed product manager.
• In this role, you will focus on building to optimize an enhanced value proposition for an existing product. You will frequently liaise with customers (retailers and business owners) internal Designers, Product, Marketing, Finance, Data Science, and Tech teams to identify requirements to define the product and feature builds. You will also work closely with external companies.
• The ideal candidate is a clear communicator (both written and verbal), organized, has a proven track record of getting things done, and is comfortable working in a quickly-changing environment.

Day to Day Job Description

• Lead and drive the short- and long-term execution of the roadmap and development of payments at Omnibiz working with a healthy mix of onsite and remote teams.
• Synthesize short- and long-term product ideas from cross-functional teams
• Identify customer needs and define business requirements to enable product build
• Evaluate and recommend product and service enhancements that improve the payment acceptance and overall customer experience
• Provide strategic and pro-active guidance to internal Omnibiz businesses and stakeholders on new partnership opportunities

Qualifications

• Ability to think and react in a high-energy, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills and the ability to express thoughts logically and succinctly.
• Ability to handle the ‘hands-on’ day-to-day management of tasks, resolve problems and issues, and implement action plans to meet objectives.
• Proven ability to effectively manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Experience working in Agile frameworks
• Experience in payments/e-commerce is an added advantage
• A keen, flexible and aggressive intellect with superb conceptual thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience developing products, particularly in mobile and payments space
• Ability to translate user research to developing new products
• Proven track record of taking ownership and delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Ability to thrive in an ambiguous and constantly changing environment.
• Great motivation to drive the business forward. Proactive attitude and willingness to roll up sleeves and dive deep to achieve goals.
• Demonstrated experience of thinking creatively, taking the initiative and constructively advocating on behalf of clients internally.

Additional Information:

• Growth
• Equal Opportunity
• Exchange ideas and meet colleagues from different teams in our active squads.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online