Overview
Product Manager Jobs in Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa at Woolworths
Title: Product Manager
Company: Woolworths
Location: Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Closing Date 2026/08/20
Reference Number WWL260812-4
Job Title Product Manager
Job Type Full Time
Business Unit Online E-Commerce
Location – Country South Africa
Location – Province Western Cape
Location – Town / City Cape Town
Minimum Education Level Diploma | Advanced Certificate
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 OWNERSHIP
Own 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 DEFINITION
Lead 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 GOVERNANCE
Lead 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 & MEASUREMENT
Own 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 MANAGEMENT
Acts 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 DEVELOPMENT
The 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 IMPROVEMENT
Maintain 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.