Senior Analyst, Product Management at Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited Full Time

Babban Gona Farmer Services Nigeria Limited is currently seeking for application from qualified applicants to fill the vacant position of Senior Analyst, Product Management. interested and qualified applicants can apply via the details below

Babban Gona Agricultural Franchise is a financially sustainable, high impact and highly scalable social enterprise, which is part-owned by the farmers it serves. Babban Gona is an innovative model designed to serve the bottom of the pyramid and transform agriculture into a job-creation engine. Through this agricultural franchise, Babban Gona offers a suite of services to smallholder farmers, helping them to overcome the challenges of fragmentation and low economies of scale.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Analyst, Product Management

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time
Reporting Line: The Senior Product Manager

Key Responsibilities
Product Planning and Strategy:

• Initiate and execute projects to provide strategic direction for innovative growth opportunities that leverage technology trends, market trends and integrated solutions.
• Develop user-centric product plans and identify new product opportunities by periodically conducting voice of the customer (VOC) research.
• Initiate, develop and maintain long term product strategies/road maps for our product portfolio.

Product Performance:

• Collaborating with the ES Engineering in product implementation.
• Collaborating with the product design team to create intuitive designs.
• Collaborating with product users to align on user requirements and critical operational functions.
• Contributing to a pro-active, self-motivating Scrum team, the technical architecture and implementation, and team efficiency initiatives and culture.
• Consistently testing product performance, functionality, component(s) and systems.
• Risk management; escalating where required.
• Initiate and implement product strategies and plans for the portfolio and coordinate necessary cross-functional activities.
• Identify and drive process improvement within the product management function.

Customer Focus:

• Communicate with, and deeply understand customers, technology, and competition, and synthesize into product strategy.
• Develop product requirements and priorities and communicate same across the company by collaboration and building consensus.
• Define key metrics that define the success of products.
• Integrate user research studies, analytics, and market analysis into product requirements.
• Participate in product user research, product design reviews and demos.

Requirements

• 3 years experience in Product Management, Business Development or related experience.
• Experience interacting with both internal and external customers.
• Ability to analyze, interpret and draw meaningful and accurate conclusions from data.
• The successful candidate will be expected to be a high-energy, creative and resourceful self-starter.
• Ability to effectively and actively communicate with both business, technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills.
• Strong work ethic and demonstrated a willingness to drive projects to closure.
• Strong deductive reasoning and attention to detail.
• Ability to efficiently manage multiple projects in a fast-paced & dynamic environment under tight timelines, while adaptive to change.
• Strong sense of customer service to consistently and effectively addresses customer needs.
• Knowledge of Agile software development framework, architecture concepts, and terminology.
• Experience and/or accreditation in Scrum framework a plus.

Start Up Environment:

• Thrives in a fast paced, start-up environment with dynamic business priorities.

Travel:

• Role may require periodic travel per quarter to Northern Nigeria.

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• Performance Bonus.
• Annual paid vacation
• Group Life Insurance.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.