Analyst – SEA Product
MTN Uganda
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Johannesburg • South Africa
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About the role
- Proactively discover and shape product opportunities in collaboration with clients, partners, and internal stakeholders. Bring innovative thinking and a continuous improvement mindset to how we build and scale.
- Understand customer challenges and connect them to internal capabilities. Help design smart product layers or solutions - whether insights, anonymized views, or abstracted APIs that add value.
- Translate business needs into clear product requirement documents (PRDs), user stories, and functional specifications. Act as the product owner within an agile scrum team, managing backlogs and participating in testing.
- Work closely with technology, sales, marketing, and compliance teams to bring products from concept to launch.
- Provide inputs to marketing teams for the creation of customer-facing product collateral.
- Conduct competitive research, market sizing, and pricing analysis to guide product design and positioning.
- Operate confidently within agile environments where priorities evolve and speed matters.
Requirements
- 3 year Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
- Postgraduate advantageous
- 3+ years of experience in product analysis, product management, business analysis, or a related role.
- Strong understanding of how data can be transformed into insights or structured products, without necessarily being a data scientist.
- Demonstrated ability to write high-quality PRDs and collaborate in agile product delivery teams.
- Experience conducting market research and price analysis.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Track record of working across technology and commercial teams.
- Travel across African markets will be required to work with clients and regional teams on the ground.
- A builder’s mindset with the ability to think from first principles and deliver solutions that make commercial sense.
- A strong commercial orientation - you understand how to turn product features into revenue or measurable impact.
- Ability to take ambiguous or open-ended client problems and translate them into actionable product solutions.
- An eye for detail, balanced by a focus on what matters most for users and for the bottom line.
- A genuine interest in emerging markets and creating inclusive, scalable solutions.
Benefits
- Lead with Care
- Can-do with Integrity
- Collaborate with Agility
- Serve with Respect
- Act with Inclusion
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
product analysisproduct managementbusiness analysisagile methodologiesPRD writingmarket researchpricing analysisdata insightsfunctional specificationsuser stories
Soft skills
interpersonal skillscommunication skillsstakeholder engagementcollaborationproblem-solvingattention to detailcommercial orientationinnovative thinkingcontinuous improvement mindsetbuilder's mindset
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Business AdministrationBachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceBachelor’s degree in Engineering