Head of Product job at BURN
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Vacancy title:
Head of Product

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Manufacturing , Category: Sales & Retail ]

Jobs at:

BURN

Deadline of this Job:
27 October 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Thursday, October 13, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
Head of Product

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Work closely with Global Marketing Director to evaluate new market/ product opportunity potential and prioritize product development efforts accordingly.
• Collaborate with Market research team to identify new product potential or product improvement necessity in existing, new, and untapped markets (includes user research, competitive analysis, etc.)
• Collaborate with the NPD (New Product Development) to ensure the product vision, business model and actual product are well aligned and create and continuously refine the NPD process.
• Refine and implement the product development process in NPD as new products launch
• Align detailed specifications/requirements and milestones for product development and ensure that they are within set timelines, budget and costs.
• Ensure we are solving the right problems by sourcing input from multiple channels and analyzing effectively to drive maximum impact.
• Develop mechanisms to collect ideas for new products and major variants throughout the organization and beyond.
• Ensure there is always a pipeline of pre-evaluated and prioritized ideas waiting implementation in collaboration with the R&D team (between gate 0 and 1) & the NPD team.
• Collaborate with the Legal team to ensure that all products are legally covered with the right patent and copyright protections.
• Serve as a bridge between key NPD, Finance, and Commercial business functions.
• Organizing multiple decision and evaluation criteria/timelines such as best market entry time, intellectual property strategy in new markets/new products, the product-market fit, regulatory environment of new markets impacting product development, size of opportunities, etc.

Skills and Experience:
• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.
• 6-10 years of relevant experience, product management, New Product development and commercialisation.
• An engineering background will be a significant plus.
• Strong communicator with an overview over all moving pieces in your team and product management process.
• Tremendous experience in managing and working cross functionally with diverse teams that might span different time zones.
• A product person; a people person who knows how to set priorities and coordinate with all stakeholders within and outside of the company
• Confident and always striving to deliver the best results, considering the complexity of the system and its requirements.


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 72

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Sales jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 27 October 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 13-10-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 13-10-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 13-10-2066
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