📌 OPPORTUNITY OVERVIEWWoolworths is actively recruiting for a Product Manager position in Western Cape. This is an excellent opportunity for professionals in the Product / Management sector looking to advance their careers.
🎯 IDEAL CANDIDATE PROFILEWe are seeking talented individuals with the following profile• Experience Level: Not Specified • Educational Background: Others or equivalent • Industry Focus: Product / Management • Location Preference: in Western Cape
💼 WHY THIS ROLE MATTERSThe Product Manager position is an important role within the Product / Management sector, offering meaningful career development and professional growth opportunities.
📈 CAREER DEVELOPMENT INSIGHTSThis role in Product / Management offers valuable career progression opportunities aligned with your experience level and professional aspirations.
📋 APPLICATION GUIDANCEWhen applying for this Product Manager position, ensure your CV highlights: • Relevant experience matching the Not Specified requirement • Educational qualifications in line with Others • Specific achievements in the Product / Management field • Any certifications or specialized training
🌍 SOUTH AFRICA JOB MARKET CONTEXTThe Product / Management sector in South Africa continues to show strong demand for skilled professionals. This position represents a valuable opportunity in the current job market.
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Job Advert Summary
The Product Manager leads a portfolio of e-commerce product capabilities end-to-end, from strategy and discovery through delivery, measurement and continuous improvement. The Product Manager owns the product vision for their domain, making the sequencing and investment decisions that shape quarterly roadmaps, and ensuring the squads they lead are solving the right problems in the right order.
Minimum Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or equivalent. MBA or postgraduate business qualification advantageous. SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner (PMPO) certification advantageous.
COMPETENCIES
Strong management, leadership and people skills. Customer and quality obsessed, striving for simple solutions to often complex problems Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills - ability to collaborate and work in a matrix organization Cross-functional coordination Business/Value case development and investment governance Visionary and future oriented thinker Resilient, positive and able to manage complexity, uncertainty and rapid change
Duties and Responsibilities
PRODUCT STRATEGY & ROADMAP OWNERSHIPOwn the product strategy and roadmap for the domain by translating business objectives into prioritised opportunities, making investment and sequencing decisions, balancing customer, commercial, and platform needs, and using market insights to inform strategic direction and identify capability gaps
DISCOVERY LEADERSHIP & PROBLEM DEFINITIONLead customer-led discovery by identifying key customer problems and opportunities, using insights and data to validate needs, shape product direction, and define clear outcomes before development begins. Partner closely with Design and Engineering to ensure solutions are desirable, viable, and feasible.
PROGRAMME DELIVERY & PI GOVERNANCELead the planning, governance, and delivery of the product portfolio by partnering with the Programme Manager to shape roadmaps, manage dependencies, oversee PI execution, and ensure release readiness. Drive risk, compliance, and cross-functional alignment to deliver high-quality outcomes safely and predictably.
COMMERCIAL PERFORMANCE & MEASUREMENTOwn the product domain's performance by defining success metrics, tracking business outcomes, and using data to guide investment and product decisions. Monitor feature performance, build business cases for future initiatives, provide portfolio health reporting, and ensure product choices deliver measurable commercial value and P&L impact.
STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENTActs as the strategic product lead for the domain, aligning senior stakeholders around product priorities, roadmap decisions, and expected outcomes. Builds strong cross-functional relationships, facilitates decision-making on competing priorities, and ensures clear communication of product strategy, performance, and value delivery
TEAM LEADERSHIP & PRODUCT OWNER DEVELOPMENTThe Product Manager is responsible for building and leading a high-performing team of Product Owners by coaching, mentoring, and developing their capability. This includes setting clear expectations, creating growth opportunities, and ensuring Product Owners can operate autonomously with strong problem framing, prioritisation, stakeholder management, and delivery practices. The role also owns hiring and onboarding, establishes product management standards and best practices, and fosters a culture centred on customer value, commercial thinking, and continuous learning.
PLATFORM INTEGRITY & PROCESS IMPROVEMENTMaintain a healthy, scalable product ecosystem by balancing feature delivery with platform investment, continuously improving product governance and ways of working, ensuring measurable outcomes for all releases, and proactively responding to industry and regulatory change.
Deadline:20th August,2026
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