Product Owner - Last-Mile Health Platform

About the role

A client building a leading platform for last-mile access to health products and services across Africa, with a focus on women and underserved, lower-income markets, is seeking an experienced Product Owner. The consultant leads customer-centric, data-driven technology products across several business initiatives and African markets, owning the product roadmap, prioritised backlog and end-to-end delivery process. The role is hybrid and open to candidates based in Kigali, Rwanda, Stellenbosch or Cape Town.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technology product lifecycle, from discovery and requirements definition through development, release and optimisation.
• Define and maintain product roadmaps aligned with business objectives, operational priorities and customer needs.
• Translate requirements into epics, acceptance criteria and development-ready user stories, and manage the backlog so it is ready for sprint planning.
• Work with engineering, UX, QA and business teams on technical feasibility and requirements alignment.
• Facilitate Agile ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives) and drive delivery against sprint objectives, managing dependencies, risks and blockers.
• Coordinate SIT, UAT, business validation, stakeholder sign-off, production releases and post-implementation support.
• Manage multiple concurrent initiatives and support warehouse management, last-mile delivery, cold chain, dashboards and mobile app solutions.
• Monitor product performance with KPIs and customer feedback, and communicate progress to senior stakeholders.

Required profile

• 5-8 years' experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager or in a similar technology product delivery role.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
• Proven experience managing digital products and working directly with software engineering teams.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments and coordinating SIT, UAT, sign-off and releases.
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives and cross-functional teams.

Required skills

• Product management, SDLC, digital and technical product management; Agile/Scrum.
• Tools such as Jira, Confluence, Aha! or Trello.
• Understanding of APIs, integrations and UI/UX principles.
• Desirable: e-commerce, logistics, healthcare or last-mile experience; WMS, IoT, cold chain, AI/ML, ERP and BI exposure; CSPO, SAFe POPM certification.