Grade IResponsible for supporting the delivery of business analysis and consulting processes and procedures for the defined specialism using basic technical capabilities, developing working relationships to provide support with queries, issues and ad-hoc requests and assisting with quality assurance services. Specialisms: Business Analysis; Data Management and Data Science; Digital Innovation.Entity:
Innovation & Engineering

Job Family Group:
IT&S Group

Job Description:

About us

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 in 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, to bring fresh opinions, ambition, and to 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 more thoughtful 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 collecting 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.

Key accountabilities and experience by skill categories:

• Ability to immerse yourself in knowing your internal and/or external customer needs to reimagine and innovate product solutions
• Demonstrable track record of discovering customer needs and translating them into inspirational, innovative solutions and detailed product requirements
• Research key customer trends and competitor activity in relation to the relevant business area to build a knowledge hub to continually improve product performance
• Work with business teams, leaders, science, and engineering teams in an agile development environment to launch new products, platforms, features and experiences that delight our customers
• Embed customer problem discovery and user experience into team behaviours
• Strong customer-centric approach

Business focused:

• Collaborate with other product managers and business partners to create a product vision based on customer compassion, market research, regulatory guardrails, and the goals of the business
• Partner daily with DevOps squads to develop and run digital applications, ensuring the voice of the customer is incorporated into the product team activity
• Maintain an up-to-date delivery roadmap with a clear focus on business value
• Continually seeks to accelerate development strategically (eg. through external partnership or re-use of internal capabilities)
• Provide visibility of delivery to internal and external customers
• Support the management of service outcomes with suppliers and partners who provide developers to augment your team
• Chip in crafting product vision and product roadmaps with an agile delivery approach
• Manage cyber, operational and/or regulatory risks
• Make strategic product recommendations that are grounded in data and insights
• Lead the day-to-day product development schedule from design through to release, own the product life cycle, and define and monitor metrics that measure the success of the product
• Strong business-focused problem-solving skills

Technology driven:

• Partner with your technology peers and influence end-state architecture
• Drive secure, resilient, performant, and scalable technology solutions that solve material customer and business problems
• Recommend technology investment decisions by assessing opportunities for reusing enterprise solutions / building new solutions with extensibility & enterprise scalability
• Familiarity with Design Thinking
• Software Development and Software Operations along with the concept of DevOps
• Experience of managing security incidents and prioritizing backlogs, providing guidance and empowering the team to perform
• Grasp of software-as-a-service, web services and application design
• Strong knowledge and/or keen interest in emerging tools and technologies
• Responsible for defining projects, collecting requirements, writing detailed functional specifications, including user experience in collaboration with design colleagues
• Complete data driven cost/benefit analysis

Transformational Leadership

• Effectively manage the planning, execution, delivery, and release of sophisticated cross-team engineering initiatives, establishing teams that continually perform at a high level
• Guide teams to reflect and identify improvements and move them towards solutions
• Acts as coach or mentor to guide teams and individuals to adopting an agile mentality and is seen as a leader in agile behaviors and practices
• Influence a broad set of customers across the enterprise to successfully deliver on product vision
• Establish a long-term product strategy, advised by customer and business needs!
• Create culture to solve core customer needs by influence without formal authority
• Demonstrate technical fluency; comfort understanding and discussing technology concepts, schedule trade-offs and new opportunities with technical / non-technical team members
• Ability to communicate, collaborate and influence effectively

Key characteristics of product leaders

Intellectually curious: comfortable navigating between the big ideas and executional realities to create an achievable strategic product vision. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.

Communicator & Influencer: comfortable influencing a group of executives as well as communicating your product vision clearly to your associates and partners. You can be open to different communication styles and listen carefully to diverse sets of ideas.

Do-er: you're biased toward action and are willing to make commitments and trade-offs with leaders to remove impediments for your team; you are a leader obsessed with delivering valuable in an iterative way focusing on minimum viable products that, ultimately, lead to minimum lovable experiences.

Passionate & customer focus: you care about growing others and bringing them together around what's possible. You have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs and build long lasting relationships.

Learner: you have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when exploring unknown technologies; you will seek for internal solutions

Team player: you enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team towards a common goal. You are also able to coach others and be a mentor in product development. You are an expert in guiding pods/ sprint team towards outcomes for customers and the business. Uses human-centered design, analytics, business modeling and iterative MVPs. Provides people leadership, team leadership, and models cross-discipline/org influence.

Education:

Business, Economics, STEM degree, MBA or equivalent experience

Travel Requirement
Up to 10% travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:
This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:
This position is not available for remote working

Skills:
Commercial Acumen, Commercial acumen (Inactive), Communication, Data Analysis, Data cleansing and transformation, Data domain knowledge, Data Integration, Data Management, Data Manipulation, Data Sourcing, Data strategy and governance, Data Structures and Algorithms, Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving

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