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Associate Product Manager (APM)

Full Time
Capiter - 
Cairo, EgyptPosted 3 years ago
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  • Capiter is a B2B marketplace that brings together FMCGs, Wholesalers and merchants to the same platform, enabling merchants to order their products through the e-commerce platform and receive credit on their purchases. As of today it’s serving 30k+ merchants and +150 FMCGs and wholesalers. Focus is to create value for merchants and improve their income through technological disruption.
  • We are a versatile team of close to 130+ problem solvers who love making the impossible possible. We strive for a diverse and entrepreneurial company culture with people who are curious and want to be the best at what they do.
  • We are backed by top tier VC’s such as ​MSA, Shorooq Partners and Accion and some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the Middle East.
  • The role is responsible for implementing the product vision and roadmap alongside Product leaders and manage day to day product management activities for the department. We are building technology products and services to help our Brand Partners and Wholesale Partners manage the complexities of order fulfilment, first & last mile delivery and logistics management and reach out to the US $50B market comprising of more than 400K+ merchants across Egypt.
  • Capiter’s supply chain function comprises of  Order management, inventory management, fulfilment & distribution , first, mid & last mile logistics management, customer support and  returns management with ever growing suite of capabilities and features to deal with complexities and customized needs of Partners on the Marketplace. 
  • The APM will be responsible for the problem solving and product development activities for their products required to support supply chain teams to deliver fast, cost effective and reliable delivery experience to our customers on both the demand and supply side. This is a unique opportunity to learn multiple tech stacks and manage a product that has multi-billion dollar impact.
  • Key Result Areas (Accountability & Responsibility of the role) 
  • You will champion customer centricity by analyzing, planning and managing the product features and enhancements based on evidence & research driven methodologies.
  • You will work closely with Business & Product leadership to execute the vision and product roadmap for Marketplace & SCM teams within Capiter’s B2B Marketplace
  • You will champion product execution by working very closely with cross-functional stakeholders, including but not limited to other product teams, business development teams, operations team, software developers, embedded engineers, design engineers, data scientists and business analysts.
  • You will be managing the Product backlog, Sprint cycle from Grooming to Sprint Retro and communication related to feature rollouts and timelines across stakeholders.
  • You will - at any point in time - be juggling on multiple projects within the workstream at different stages of product development.
  • You will own weekly and monthly reporting on the state of the initiatives for your product and utilize metrics to deep-dive into issues and uncover business-driving trends and patterns
  • You will drive adoption & growth of rolled out solutions, assess open opportunities to further enhance merchant and supplier experience and remove friction points.
  • You will measure improvements and impact of changes and set-up mechanisms to audit impact and perform necessary course corrections where needed to meet business objectives.

Job Requirements

  • Key Skills Required for this position : 
  • We prefer someone who has displayed a track record of:
  • Building user-centric product experiences
  • Managing multiple stakeholders, both internal and external and who demonstrates the following soft skills:
    1. Comfortable with ambiguity in a dynamic environment
    2. Strong interpersonal skills & ability to lead through influence
  • Bias for action, in a very fast-paced result-oriented work culture
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively with different functional groups, developers, business owners, and senior business leaders
  • High degree of product ownership and collaborate effectively with remote teams in multiple time zones

Basic Qualifications : 

  • Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree in an analytically-heavy discipline such as Engineering, Computer Science, Finance or Mathematics (or work experience to that effect)
  • 2+ years of prior product management experience in an internet-based company preferably in B2B /B2C E- commerce Supply Chain, Logistics, Fulfilment or Planning

Preferred Qualifications ( not mandatory) :

  • MBA degree from Premier Institute / Prior start up experience will be preferred
  • Prior Logistics, Marketplace, Fulfilment, Last mile or Supply Chain Product management experience will be preferred.
  • Prior entrepreneurial experience with track record for delivering results in fast-moving and demanding environments

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