Product Manager – London, South East England
At bp, we’re reimagining energy for people and our planet. With operations working across almost every part of the energy system, we’re owning the way to reducing carbon emissions and developing more sustainable methods for solving the energy challenge. We’re a team with multi-layered strengths of engineers, scientists, traders, and business professionals determined to find answers to problems. And we know we can’t do it alone. We’re looking for people who share our passion for reinvention, bring fresh opinions, and ambition, and challenge our thinking in our goal to achieve net zero! We believe our portfolio of businesses and investments in growth and transformation will result in a company with the scale, brand, capabilities, talent, and values to succeed as the digital revolution transforms our society, our industry, and our planet.
Role Synopsis
- Are you passionate about solving complex customer and business problems at scale?
- Do you dream of well-designed and intuitive products and customer experiences?
- Do you want to be the one who introduces change to help tens of millions of customers make smarter energy choices for themselves, their families, and the planet?
- Do you want to change the way people access and consume secure, sustainable energy??
If you answered yes to all these questions, then product management at bp may be a fit for you.
Product Management at bp is a booming, vibrant craft that requires reimagining the status quo, finding value creation opportunities, and driving innovative and sustainable customer experiences through technology. The Product Manager is responsible for the definition and development of a digital product, ensuring customer need, argument, strategic alignment, feature reuse and innovation are led throughout the Product Lifecycle. Taking ownership for the global delivery, this role will lead country or domain teams to drive scale and new market entry of new product offerings.
This includes but is not limited to capturing and prioritizing product features at the strategic runway level; understanding and communicating customer requirements; shaping the product strategy and vision; and ensuring effective cost and revenue management. Working closely with business leads and managers, you will be responsible for aligning multiple product work streams to a single coherent vision, ensuring revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met as well as ensuring that the product supports bp’s overall strategy and goals. This is a hands-on role with the expectation that you will bring day to day accountability and performance management to the product. This role is in an exciting new area that is responsible for creating new products and solving difficult customer problems
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Human centered:
- Research key customer trends and competitor activity in relation to the relevant business area to build a knowledge hub to continually improve product performance
- Ability to immerse yourself in knowing your internal and/or external customer(s) needs to reimagine and innovate product solutions?
- Knows how to bring customer problem discovery and user experience into the behaviors of the team and apply them optimally
- Demonstrable track record of discovering customer needs and translating them into inspirational, innovative solutions and detailed product requirements
- Work closely with business teams, leaders, science, and engineering teams in an agile development environment to launch new products
Business focused:
- Collaborate with other product managers and business stakeholders to create a compelling portfolio
- Partner daily with DevOps squads to develop and run digital applications, ensuring the voice of the customer is incorporated into the product team activity, maintaining an up-to-date delivery roadmap with a clear focus on business value
- Shows ability in being able to decipher between functional impact, business impact, and good user experience. Picking the best balance between the 3
- Continually seeks to accelerate development strategically through external partnership or re-use of internal capabilities, including our venture portfolio, identifying ‘best of breed’ features and crafting a robust buy / build / partner strategy against the product roadmap
- Provide visibility of delivery to internal and external partners, raising issues as required to drive product launches
- As needed, supports the management of service outcomes with suppliers and partners who provide developers to augment your team
- You’ll contribute in crafting product vision and product roadmaps with an agile delivery approach
- Strong experience in data modeling and data analytics.
