Internet of Things Manager - Johannesburg, South Africa - Nedbank

Nedbank

Verified Company

Johannesburg, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Job Classification

Requisition: Role: Internet of Things Manager

Closing Date: 12 April 2024- TA: Nozi Masabalala- Division: Nedbank Wealth (Operations)- Employment Equity Statement: Preference will be given to individuals from underrepresented groups.

- Job Family- Project, Process and Product

Career Stream
Product

Leadership Pipeline

Manage Self: Professional

Job Purpose

The position is best suited to a selfmotivated and confident individual who has a strong understanding of the Internet of Things market gained either from research, product, or strategy management background.
To guide each solution through the four stages of the product life cycle (introduction, growth, maturity, and decline), ensuring that maximum business value is achieved over the life of the solution and ensure that solutions deliver tangible business value. Collaborate in converting ideas into a steady stream of valuable products and services that requires ongoing coordination and communication across the organisation to bridge portfolio strategy and execution.

Responsibilities:

Develop the market leading IoT advisory service through making better use of Nedbank Insurance research assets and enhance the service's data sets and research deliverables.
Define an IoT strategy, research plan and manage its delivery on time and to budget.
Present comfortably in front of a range of audiences, from sales and marketing staff to senior executives, service providers, systems integrators, software vendors and user organisations.
Use wellhoned primary research skills to gather data and insight into the IoT market, with a particular focus on supplier market sizing, supplier market share and vendor contracts.
Write analysis which gives our stakeholders and clients unique insight into emerging opportunities across enterprise and consumer IoT services, including vertical insight in the automotive, utilities, financial services markets, and the SME segment.
Leverage your reputation in the IoT services industry as an analyst who is unafraid to take a stand on major issues, backed by uptodate sector knowledge.
Collaborate with, and manage members of, the broader team of analyst experts to use their market and technical knowledge in order to fulfil projects.
Maintain and grow network of industry experts, further building footprint, and Nedbank Insurance in the IoT industry.
Continuously explores the Solution Context for complex products and services, gathering qualitative and quantitative insights about market dynamics and user preferences leveraging both business and technical strategy to produce the hypotheses that fuel the Continuous Delivery Pipeline.
Drive primary and secondary research and leverages both to inform overall product strategy and specific elements of product design.
Understand segments, customer needs, and market rhythms to achieve maximum business value by deploying the right product to the customer at the right time.
Ensure that solutions deliver maximum business benefit through understanding of the needs of end users.

Job Responsibilities Continue

Employ iterative elicitation techniques such as Lean UX, humancentred design (HCD), and journey mapping to evolve product strategy in alignment with these everchanging needs.
Drive a customercentric mindset that focuses the entire organization on creating desirable, viable, feasible, and sustainable solutions.
Leverages design thinking practices and tools to fully understand the problems to be solved and to design the solutions that best address them.
Accountable to translate customer needs into solution concepts that can be delivered by Agile Teams and achieve measurable business outcomes.
Responsible for delivery budget for complex products and services including providing input to enterprise budget allocation (with associated benefits and value), distributing allocated budgets amongst delivery teams and ensuring spend is tracked and allocated to the prioritised features
Examines a feature's implementation against its acceptance criteria and determines whether it contains enough business value to be released.
Provides support and enablement to key functions in the operational value stream to ensure the full value of every release is realized and tracked
Responsible for product performance ensuring that all business and strategic targets are met, and where necessary, plans are enabled to close the gaps.
Drive commercialisation efforts by working collaboratively with other areas to develop and track the commercialisation plan and ensure KPIs can be measured against business targets.

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