Senior Specialist Product Development

Role purpose

Deliver digital revenues for Vodacom through product capability development, management and continuous improvement. The Product Specialist: Capability Development is fully responsible for ensuring capability and platform delivery, customer adoption, revenue uplift (from a product and data consumption perspective) and a highly rated customer experience. It must own the feature and function roadmap for key Digital initiatives and ensure its execution in close collaboration with the technical, segment & marketing teams across opcos. 

The key responsibilities for this role include

•  Develop and agree overall function & feature roadmap and approach for digital products and platforms
  •    Increased customer revenue through digital and data revenue streams
  •    Provide customers with a digital ecosystem that enables a best in class, seamless anywhere experience
  •    Manage digital driven data growth on the Vodacom opcos networks through an optimised digital product offering while driving a high-quality data experience for Vodacom customers.
  •    Manage technology and regulatory impacts in collaboration with the relevant business stakeholders.

Key accountabilities and decision ownership Who you are

• Customer Experience
  •    Bring customer experience into every decision
  •    Listen and ask questions to understand our customers’ needs
  •    Ensure every digital and data journey is exceeding world class customer experience standards
  •    Data & Digital strategy execution
  •    Create overall functional roadmap and obtain organisational buy-in
  •    Drive delivery of projects to achieve business objectives.
  •    Run initiatives to improve customer satisfaction, adoption, usage, transactions and revenue
  •    Commercial Ownership of Data & Digital KPI’s
  •    Drive revenue and customer growth
  •    Enable improvements of customer satisfaction measurement for all data & digital journeys
  •    Drive customer engagement of data and digital products
  •    Continuous monitoring of performance across services and projects
  •    Subject Matter Expert, Organisational Leadership and communication.
  •    Vodacom champion for Digital 
  •    Obtain buy-in across the opcos and work closely with technology and marketing to ensure that digital forms part of future data propositions. Ensure timely delivery of these propositions..
  •    Build very close relationships with Opco and IB Marketing, Segment, Technical, Support and other teams to ensure growth of these products to achieve KPI’s
  •    Remove operational and execution barriers