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Product Owner - Jumia food

Jumia
New Cairo, Cairo
Posted 2 years ago
129Applicants for1 open position
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About Jumia Egypt Tech Centers
Want to be part of the biggest tech center in Africa and work in mixed teams with over 16 different nationalities? Join Jumia Egypt Tech Centers where tech meets purpose. At Egypt Tech Centers you will be managed by and mentored by top tech leaders in both Portugal and Egypt. You will also be working with state of the art technologies & methodologies, and using agile philosophy, all as means to improve the lives of millions of Africans across the continent by offering them convenient and affordable online solutions. And with that as our PURPOSE, innovation at Jumia NEVER stops and you will be moving from one exciting challenge to the next.

About Jumia
Jumia is the leading e-commerce platform in Africa. It is built around a marketplace, Jumia Logistics, and JumiaPay. The marketplace helps millions of consumers and sellers to connect and transact. Jumia Logistics enables the delivery of millions of packages through our network of local partners.

With over 1 billion people and 500 million internet users in Africa, Jumia believes that e-commerce is making people's lives easier by helping them shop and pay for millions of products at the best prices wherever they live. E-commerce is also creating new opportunities for SMEs to grow, and job opportunities for a new generation to thrive.

With over 5,000 employees in more than 10 countries in Africa, Jumia is led by top talented leaders offering a great mix of local and international talents and is backed by very high-profile shareholders. Jumia is committed to creating sustainable impact in Africa. Jumia offers unique opportunities in a vibrant and booming environment, creating new jobs, new skills, and empowering a new generation.
 

What you will be doing: 

  • The Jumia Food Product Manager will have the responsibility to define our Q-commerce Logistics vision, working closely with Senior Stakeholders, other Product Managers, and the tech team,
  • Help define the overall strategy Q-commerce logistics, the roadmap, and business plan to achieve a best-in-class experience.
  • Actively prioritize product backlog and coordinate planning with Product Owners, Designers, and Data Scientists.
  • Work with clients and partners to define and create storyboards and user journey maps
  • Work with clients and partners to understand and address usability issues
  • Help unify the user experience of currently fragmented properties and products.
  • Foster a collaborative relationship between business product managers and the Data Science team, ensure productive engagements between the two teams.
  • Work with the technical product managers to ensure that the deliverables are well defined and understood in the overall project scope.
  • Work with PMO; help develop processes to ensure orderly, predictable execution of deliverables 
     

Main Responsibilities:

  • Drive one or more Scrum Teams as the Product Owner
  • Providing vision and direction to the Agile development team and stakeholders throughout the project and create requirements in the forms of Epics, Themes, and Stories
  • Backlog management, iteration planning, and elaboration of the user stories
  • Guiding the team and organization on how to use Agile/Scrum best practices and values
  • Lead the planning product release plans and set expectations for delivery of new functionalities
  • Providing an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

Job Requirements

  • Previous working experience as Product Owner/Project Manager in IT; Prior experience on e-commerce topics is a plus;
  • Exposure or knowledge of Agile development frameworks - Scrum, Kanban is mandatory (Certification is a plus);
  • Ability to actively manage competing priorities, requirements and meet deadlines;
  • Previous working experience in Supply Chain/Logistics products
  • Previous working experience in Q-commerce products is a plus (not mandatory)
  • Excellent interpersonal & communication skills;
  • Fluent in English (Mandatory).

Expected personal skills :

  • Action oriented and results oriented
  • Strong analytical skill
  • Strong inter-personal skills
  • Fast learner
  • Well organized
  • Resistant to stress
  • Very independent with a strong ability to go further than the expectations 
     

We Offer :

  • A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment
  • The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team working around the world
  • An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer-term objective is to train the next generation of leaders for our future internet ventures 

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