An innovative financial services company in Cape Town is looking for a head of product to lead, manage, and develop their company portfolio. The successful candidate must have a relevant bachelor’s degree or higher and at least five years’ relevant experience in retail credit/financial services/banking.

Duties:

• To lead, manage and develop the overall product portfolio within the company and to ensure the achievement of the goals and objectives of individual product lines within the context of the broader organisational strategy. To achieve portfolio growth and profitability in line with business expectations
• Lead the development and evolution of the company product and proposition strategy
• Develop and manage portfolio growth strategies to ensure achievement of commercial business objectives
• Leverage data insights and analytics to develop revenue and profit optimisation strategies
• Implement effective pricing strategies to optimise customer and business performance
• Stay abreast of market and competitive trends and relevant legislation
• Ensure effective cost management of product related expenses
• Develop relationships with key colleagues and stakeholders
• Build a motivated and high performing team of specialists committed to achieving portfolio success
• Be an integral part of the wider commercial leadership team
• Support overall initiatives and goals through cross-functional leadership and collaboration

Requirements:

• A relevant bachelor’s degree or higher
• At least five years’ relevant experience in retail credit/financial services/banking
• Expert understanding of the financial services industry with particular emphasis on product offerings and revenue levers
• Strategic and operational product leadership experience at a senior level
• The ability to influence and collaborate at all levels throughout the organisation
• Excellent communication and presentation skills

While we would really like to respond to every application, should you not be contacted for this position within 10 working days please consider your application unsuccessful.

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Jincom is unique in its field, using various illustrative tools such as comics and animation to communicate key messages to semi-literate audiences. You will be managing capacity and workflow to ensure that the various departments work as efficiently as possible.

Job descriptions:

The primary function of this role is to act as the inter-departmental coordinator.  Through meticulous planning, the traffic/production manager ensures that work flows efficiently through the agency from client brief to project completion. 

By creating and managing department work schedules, tracking projects’ progress, managing deadlines, and routing work for review and approval, you are pivotal to ensuring Jincom is constantly delivering on clients needs. 

Requirements:

• Three+ years’ experience in traffic management
• Ability to work effectively under pressure.
• Commercial awareness
• Deadline driven
• Effective communication skills.
• Strong planning ability
• Thorough understanding of design studio processes.

Responsibilities include:

• Capacity and workload management
• Draw up production project timelines for big projects
• Ensure regular production meetings are scheduled
• Facilitate daily status and weekly planning meetings
• Create and maintain job bags
• Manage schedules/deadlines to ensure work is delivered on time
• Manage the review/checking procedure.
• Update and manage amendment briefs to ensure requested changes are made.
• Report to client service on timings and scheduling of projects
• Schedule and distribute new project to the relevant departments as they come in.
• Schedule production timelines
• Manage flow of jobs through studio, liaise with different departments heads and other individuals.
• Independently communicate with client managers regarding deadlines, changes, etc.
• Occasionally check artwork before sending to client managers.

You are the right person for the job if you:

• Take responsibility and ownership for your work 
• Have a positive attitude
• Are able to deal with pressure and deadlines
• Detail orientated

Send your cover letter, CV to

az.oc.mocnij@rh

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Use the reference #TRAFFIC&PRODUCTION in the subject line.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Posted on 13 Apr 15:33