Product Owner

About the company Our client is an Egyptian joint stock company that was established in 1995 and has been active in the field of banking technology solutions. They offer to the banks & other financial services companies (Insurance, brokerage, micro-finance, etc.) solutions in the field of enveloping & printing, ATM as well as POS. They are planning to extend their services to other sectors beside the financial sector such as Retail. The Company is looking to hire an energetic staff that would support & help in the expansion plan and act as product owners. Report to: General Manager Job Duties:. Research Phase: - Determine customers' needs and requirement through market research. - Recommends the nature and scope of present and future product lines by reviewing product specifications and requirements; appraising new product ideas and/or product or packaging changes. - Assess market competition by comparing the company's product to competitors' products. - Provide source data for product line communication by defining product marketing communication objectives. - Obtain product market share by working with sales team in direct supervision relationship. - Bring new products to market by analyzing proposed product requirements and product development programs; preparing return-on-investment analyses. - Determine product pricing by utilizing market research data; reviewing production and sales costs; anticipating volume; costing of special and customized orders. II. Pilot Phase: - The product owner will then complete the “research phase” by ordering a sample of the product from the selected vendor to test and measure. - Following this phase, and once the product is found to be suitable, will then order a small quantity of the product and work on finding a product/market fit. The fit will be measure against criteria that will be agreed upon between the product owner & the company GM - Provide information for management by preparing short-term and long-term product sales forecasts and special reports and analyses; answering questions and requests. III. Commercializing Phase: - Once all is in place, the product owner will build and manage a sales team that we sell this product based on quotas & targets.
- Extensive marketing and sales background with the ability to Identify product, Identify market (Target Segment) and arrange Market fit (Buy product and sell it) - Exceptional communication skills, in particular the ability to adapt your style for different audiences - Well organized and process driven. Relevant Previous experience with: 1. Sales eco-system 2. Technology eco-system 3. Did some previous product research work
There are 2 billion people worldwide who have jobs but no bank account. This means they are cut off from even the most basic financial services that we take for granted. Companies that employ these people feel this acutely; cash handling costs for managing both incoming cash flow from their unbanked customers as well as the wages of their unbanked employees could take up as much as 25% of their revenue. Banking the unbanked makes good business sense. dopay is committed to transforming the lives of these ‘unbanked’ people and their employers by breaking the cash cycle through a payroll and cash management service for companies, and a full mobile-banking experience for the unbanked. Already dubbed by the financial press as ‘bank of the future’, dopay is set to roll out its simple, low cost and mobile-based financial eco-system in Egypt, Ghana and India in 2015. The ambition is to have launched in 10 countries by the end of 2016.