About Afrexim
Manager, PAPSS (Product Development)
Responsibilities:
Lead the PAPSS innovation and product management function, which is responsible for creating disruptive cross-border digital payments products and solutions as well as market development and sales.
The Manager of Innovation and Product Management will be responsible for driving dynamic capabilities of digital product vision, strategy, roadmaps and initiatives that enhance and grow the core Payments and ancillary offerings for PAPSS. The manager will lead a team of digital product and salespeople in the development and execution of business growth strategies and digital sales
- The role will be instrumental to the development of Pan-African cross-border payment products and services to facilitate trade and economic activities within the continent, shaping and localizing the strategy and deployment to incentivize all the sub-regions.
- The product manager must be aware of current trends to make the right decisions when a company decides how to build or improve the product.
- Responsible for managing the development of the product vision, strategy, requirements gathering, functional design, promotion, pricing and launch of new PAPSS products and services, including the technical roadmap.
- Developing concepts and business cases and managing strategic product planning; building business cases for marketing programs and coordinating marketing functions with internal and external stakeholders
- Work with the PAPSS team and partners to devise joint products that elevate our core processing capability.
- Responsible for the implementation of the products envisaged and ensuring its appropriately go to market in join collaboration with the business development team.
- Establish metrics, processes and dashboards for monitoring and evaluating the performance and success of the product and its features.
- Driving alignment with participants, business stakeholders, architecture, user experience and security teams to ensure product designs meet market requirements.
- Prepare and implement go-to-market strategies, ensuring successful product launch execution and providing sales support.
- Performs product and consumer analyses and conducts competitive analysis.
- Define, document, and communicate objectives, requirements and constraints for product initiatives and releases.
- Partner with the stakeholders in the African payments ecosystem and ensure coordination with participants to design products and services that are fit for purpose
- Responsible for the entire products P&L.
- Provide regular and ad hoc reporting as required to the rest of the executive management and PAPSS board and communicate development status and document progress toward milestones.
- Manage the commercialization of PAPSS products and offering to customers
- Understand market trends and requirements and propose PAPSS product solutions that need to be produced as a result.
Requirements: Qualification and Skill
- Relevant bachelor’s and master’s degree
- 8+ years of Product Management experience is required, and no less than 5 years focused on payments, specifically familiarity with the latest trends and developments in the payments space. A 15-year experience in the relevant fields may be considered in lieu of a master’s degree.
- A strong understanding of the African banking sector and payments landscape will be an added advantage.
- The candidate filling this role will be a senior product manager with strong digital product development, digital product marketing and sales, and programme/ project management skills, and must have prior revenue (P&L) responsibility.
- Strong experience of large-scale technology payment product roll-outs, and the ability to communicate commercially whilst being able to dive into technical detail as required and the ability to collaborate successfully with stakeholders.
- Ability to link banking products with the PAPSS payment solutions, and Knowledge of digital currency will be an added advantage.
- Understanding of payment and transfers dynamics and critical factors driving profitability that form input to product development and marketing.
- Demonstrable experience with recognized product development and management methodology/ framework for products and services including direct involvement in the function design, business case, technical implementation and sales support.
- Experience in several key payment business areas preferred, such as portfolio management, strategy, marketing, product management, operations, risk management.
- Superior analytical and problem-solving skills, with excellent presentation skills, including writing capabilities.
- Good knowledge of mobile and card payments technologies and back-end banking systems.
- Demonstrated interpersonal and change management skills with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment; self-motivated, self-managed
- Relationship management skills, particularly ability to influence and negotiate with senior executives.
- Exceptional written and oral communication skills, exceptional interpersonal skills and the proven ability to influence and communicate effectively across regional and functional lines.
- Excellent communication in English with one of French, Arabic or Portuguese a benefit
Contractual information:
- Permanent
- Willing and able to relocate to Egypt for the opportunity
- Suitably qualified candidates from all African & Caribbean nationalities are encouraged to apply
If you wish to apply for the position, please send your CV to Caleb Ebrahim at cebrahim@caglobalint.com