Product Development Manager

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Financial Services
The Role
Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

My Career Development Portal: Wherever you are in your career, we are here for you. Design your future. Discover leading-edge guidance, tools and support to unlock your potential. You are Absa. You are possibility.

Job Summary

The incumbent will develop and identify opportunities while building innovative solutions to support the enhanced Absa customer experience journey. Drive a customer centric culture, working to translate needs into innovative business solutions.

Job Description

  • Manage the product roadmap and backlog for all digital products
  • Manage lead requirements discovery, solution design, user story writing, feature development
  • Partner with the sales and coverage teams to identify key capabilities needed as well as identifying potential issues
  • Partner with cross functional teams regularly to ensure alignment on feature development and prioritization
  • A deep understanding of the business applicability of emerging and new innovative solutions and technologies.
  • Business experience in applying innovative solutions and technologies to solve customer pain points for enhanced competitiveness
  • Work with product marketing to develop positioning and messaging to ensure differentiation -Ensure adequate skills delivery for the sales and coverage teams to drive business digitization and well as product utilization
  • Monitor and evaluate product performance to ensure constant product iteration and improvements or withdrawals
  • Responsible for product fully maintenance to ensure that they remain relevant in the market by closing all technical, operational, regulatory, and financial irregularities for all Transactional Banking products.
  • Track all the TB products launches, trading and profitability as per the timelines and targets set to manage Return On Investment (ROI)

Education and experience required 

Essential

  • Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or engineering field
  • Experience writing SQL queries, experience with back-end and front-end programming languages, such as Java, HTML, CSS, Angular JS
  • A proven track record of implementing successful solutions
  • 3 -5 years’ experience in digital product management or similar

Knowledge and skills: 

Essential 

  • Demonstrate cash management industry expertise or excellent cash management knowledge.
  • Detailed local market knowledge
  • Strong interpersonal, negotiation and selling skills.
  • Ability to work across in a virtual environment and across a demographic split.
  • Self-starter and performance driven
  • Good presentation skills, Oral and written

Closing Date: 27 September 2025

Education

Higher Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)

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The Company
HQ: Johannesburg
39,055 Employees
Year Founded: 2018

What We Do

Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond.

We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.

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