Cara Van Coller Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

At Rogerwilco, I was brought in to establish and lead the product department from the ground up. My main responsibilities include implementing efficient processes, managing a skilled team, and providing support to the engineering, design, and project management departments. A significant part of my focus is on taking charge of ongoing and new projects, particularly in the development of large-scale CMS and e-commerce platforms for prestigious universities in South Africa and global enterprises.Rogerwilco is a well-established marketing and software agency, serving clients in South Africa and the UK with a track record of successful, long-term projects. Our work revolves around assisting clients in meeting their evolving user and technological needs in diverse industries such as education, NGO, agriculture, and more.

Cape Town

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Experienced Product Owner with a strong background in managing and mentoring junior team members, and recruiting talent. Skilled in gathering business/system requirements, transforming them into product strategies, and overseeing the entire product lifecycle. Proficient in tracking KPIs and reporting success metrics.Key Skills and Responsibilities:- Leading product strategy, roadmap creation, and go-to-market strategies.- Mapping user/process flows and system architecture for new and existing products.- Ensuring development teams have the necessary resources and documentation for timely delivery - Scrum facilitation- Collaborating cross-functionally with business, design, and development teams in an agile environment.- Curating world-class UX in partnership with designers.Notable Projects:- Developed large enterprise fintech systems for top African banks.- Partnered with early-stage founders to create product strategies, map new features, conduct technical assessments, and manage teams and stakeholders.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

- Work with product and development teams on a day to day basis- create and improve user flows for software development projects. - Conducting User Research and Facilitating workshops- Doing heuristic evaluations and UX audits of existing Interactive Products from a systems and UX perspective. - Reporting to Product and UX teams with research, insights and data on the performance of the KPI's as well as experimenting with A/B tests on projects and campaigns.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

- Managing the team responsible for push notifications, supporting all other teams with content marketing and project management.- Creating strategies for the online marketing teams, employing my UX knowledge, marketing and product insights to support in design, implementation and management of projects. - Analyze weekly campaign and marketing performance and strategise to continuously improve our approaches to grow our audience, and improve traffic and quality of leads.- Collecting quantitative and qualitative (interviews + research) data for marketing teams.- Design, Build (front-end coding) and implement direct email marketing campaigns using CRM software.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

I tutor English, Afrikaans, Business science and accounting to high school and primary school students

Bcom Management Sciences, Business Marketing And Information Systems

Highschool

Activities and Societies: Editor of school newspaper, 1st team Public Speaking, 1st team Swimming, 1st team Netball, 1st team Athletics..