- We are looking for a strategic and outcome-driven Senior Manager - Product Management to own and scale the product strategy for our software portfolio.
- You will be accountable for defining the long-term vision, driving product-market fit, and ensuring our solutions deliver measurable commercial and operational impact.
- This role goes beyond backlog execution, you will shape what we build, why we build it, and how it positions us as a leader in Africa's energy transformation.
- You will translate market intelligence, customer insights, and business objectives into a coherent product strategy and multi-year roadmap. Partnering closely with Engineering, Commercial, Strategy, and Operations, you will ensure disciplined execution while maintaining a strong focus on value creation, scalability, and differentiation.
What You'll Do
Product Strategy & Portfolio Leadership:
- Define and own the product vision, strategic direction, and portfolio roadmap aligned with company growth objectives
- Drive product-market fit through deep market research, customer engagement, and competitive intelligence
- Make high-impact prioritization decisions balancing customer value, commercial returns, scalability, and technical feasibility
- Ensure alignment between product strategy, revenue targets, and operational capabilities
Product Delivery & Cross-Functional Leadership:
- Lead cross-functional collaboration across Engineering, Commercial, and Operations to deliver high-quality, scalable releases
- Oversee backlog governance, release planning, and execution discipline without operating purely at task level
- Ensure product documentation, requirements, and specifications meet enterprise-grade standards
- Drive accountability for delivery timelines, quality, and measurable business outcomes
Commercial Enablement & Market Positioning:
- Partner with Commercial teams to strengthen product positioning, value propositions, and go-to-market strategies
- Support strategic client engagements, executive presentations, and complex solution discussions
- Ensure product innovations are clearly articulated and translated into tangible customer impact
Data, Performance & Continuous Improvement:
- Define and own product KPIs, OKRs, and value-realization metrics
- Leverage usage data, financial indicators, and customer feedback to guide strategic decisions
- Lead structured post-launch evaluations and ensure continuous optimization of the product portfolio
Managerial Responsibilities:
- Define and own the annual operating plan for the function, including workforce and financial planning
- Manage and optimize departmental budgets
- Make strategic resource allocation decisions
- Build, scale, and structure teams to support long-term capability development
- Establish performance frameworks, succession planning, and leadership development pathways
- Ensure governance, risk management, and operational maturity across the function
- Drive the creation of standardized, scalable systems that enable consistent execution across regions
What We're Looking For
Professional & Technical Strengths:
- Product management experience within SaaS, enterprise software, or complex technology environments, with exposure to portfolio-level ownership
- Proven ability to define product strategy and multi-quarter roadmaps aligned with commercial and growth objectives
- Strong command of Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) with the ability to drive execution discipline across teams
- Deep experience translating business and market needs into structured strategic requirements and prioritized backlogs
- Data-driven decision-maker with the ability to define product KPIs and leverage analytics to guide strategic trade-offs
- Technical fluency to engage confidently with Engineering leadership and challenge architectural decisions when required
Leadership & Interpersonal Strengths:
- Ability to collaborate with multicultural and geographically distributed teams
- High degree of autonomy and accountability (we operate within a hybrid work environment)
- High-ownership mindset with strong accountability for outcomes
- Ability to influence leadership and align cross-functional teams around a shared product vision
- Strong commercial acumen with a clear understanding of revenue drivers, customer lifetime value, and scalable growth models
- Customer-centric and pragmatic, balancing user needs with business and operational realities
- Resilient and decisive, able to operate effectively in high-growth, evolving environments
- Experience within energy, utilities, infrastructure, or cleantech sectors
- Exposure to grid management systems, SCADA, or enterprise utility software
- Fluency in French.