Product Manager - Sandton, South Africa - Discovery Ltd.

Discovery Ltd.

Verified Company

Sandton, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Business Unit:
Discovery Health
Function:Information Technology
Date:14-Feb-2023
About Discovery

Discovery's core purpose is to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. We seek out and invest in exceptional individuals who understand and support our core purpose, and whose own values align with those of Discovery. Our fastpaced and dynamic environment enables smart, selfdriven people to be their best. As global thought leaders, Discovery is passionate about innovating in order to not only achieve financial success, but to ignite positive and meaningful change within our society.
About Discovery Health Systems
Discovery Health Systems strives to be a world leading healthcare technology organisation. We pride ourselves in creating world class solutions through our curious, innovative people who employ technical excellence to fully realise the immense potential of digital health technology to promote health and wellbeing for all South Africans and our customers globally.
Our highperformance organization prides itself in attracting the finest talent while continually challenging ourselves to create solutions that make a difference in our customers world. Our environment is energetic, hightempo and supportive of motivated people striving to find excellent and relevant solutions.
Key Purpose
As the Product Manager, you will get to work with an amazing (and uniquely global) team of developers, designers, and operations stakeholders define, manage and deliver digital health products. In this role, you will have the opportunity to think through some of the problems facing customers of Discovery and Discovery Health and create solutions that drive product results that directly reach millions of insured lives. For the individual who is ambitious, creative, have high energy and an analytical, inquiring mind.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
Drive the product in the right direction
Build an effective roadmap to collaboratively prioritize important features
Take highlevel feature proposals and customer problems and define products and customer experience. Delegate the breakdown into smaller iterations that development teams can work on to product owner but play a consulting/ reviewer role for these.
Balance new features, improvements, and bug fixes to ensure a high velocity and a stable product
Consider the business impact, ROI, and other implications when taking important decisions
Take an active role in defining the future
Contribute to the product vision in collaboration with business and strategic stakeholders
Create and maintain a vision for your product(s)
Innovate within your product area
Communicate and evangelize your product vision internally and among the wider community
Manage the product lifecycle endtoend
Work with technical leads and development teams in an agile environment to ensure implementation is of high quality and strategically aligned
Contribute to documentation, demos, and marketing materials for product features
Collaborate with other Product Managers, UX, and engineers in crossarea features
Facilitate market competition analysis and user research in collaboration with relevant teams
Review product requirements, including user flows, wireframes, and system diagrams
Prioritize product initiatives based on quantitative and qualitative data, business strategy, and market context
Work with the UX design team and with technical leads to design features
Consult on usability testing in collaboration with UX design team
Collaborate with relevant business stakeholders
Provide internal training and crossdepartmental communication for new features
Work with the entire Product team to share improvements and best practices
Review usage metrics to validate expected business impact, and iteratively adjust the product roadmap in response

Personal Attributes and Skills

Exceptional analytical, problem solving and research skills
The skill for solving complex problems with wellreasoned arguments
A passion for developing worldclass solutions that meet both the business' and customers' needs
The ability to think creatively and pursue innovative, alternative ideas
An ability to deal with complexity, ambiguity, and constant change
High energy levels and the ability to work well in a team
An aptitude and passion for delivery at high quality levels within short deadlines
An expert at managing timelines and meeting deadlines
A strong interest in building broader business skills and / or an entrepreneurial flair
Solid understanding of systems development life cycle
Knowledge of Discovery Products and legacy systems environment

Education and Experience