Entity:
Technology
Job Family Group:
IT&S Group
Let Me Tell You About The Role
A Product Manager takes ownership of overall product and portfolio success, focusing on understanding customer needs and identifying opportunities to significantly improve its experience. This role involves defining product strategy, crafting a compelling vision, and driving the product lifecycle from concept to launch and scaling. Collaboration is key, working closely with engineers, designers, and business partners to deliver impactful solutions. The role requires a methodical approach to evaluating outcomes, ensuring alignment with bp’s financial, operational, and customer strategies. As a hands-on contributor, the Product Manager manages day-to-day accountability and performance management to achieve product success.
What You Will Deliver
Business focused:
- Analytical and commercially focused, using data-driven insights, metrics, and analytics to evaluate product performance and link outcomes to strategy
- Clearly define why we are pushing a product, considering market, competitor, technical, and operational aspects of bp’s strategy and vision
- Understand business and technical economic value, such as TCO, unit economics, NPV, ROIC, and other commercial measures
- Translate vision into strategic product roadmaps with an agile delivery approach in partnership with Tech while handling cyber, operational, and/or regulatory risks
- Plans and control costs associated with running a product, including collecting, analysing, and reporting cost/benefit information to more optimally provide value
Human centered:
- Know and empathize with internal and/or external customer(s) needs to reinvent and innovate product solutions
- Integrate customer and partner feedback loops to ensure that product solutions and outcomes meet organizational needs
- Ability to coach team members and drive cross-discipline problem solving to achieve business outcomes
Technology driven:
- Use lean, iterative experiments and low-fidelity prototyping to find signal, validate hypothesis, and iterate before moving to scale
- Collaborate with partners to define end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant, and scalable technology solutions
- Engage with partners on data management, laying out how data is processed, stored, accessed, and protected
- Assess opportunities for reusing enterprise solutions and build new platforms with enterprise scalability in mind
- A keen curiosity about emerging tools and technologies
Transformational leadership:
- Partner with team members on new working practices to drive collaboration and efficiency
- Balance customer insights, business goals, and industry opportunity spaces
- Influence and create alignment across a broad set of senior executives and partners to secure resources and overcome impediments to bringing products to market
What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)
The Product Manager at this level demonstrates a working knowledge of product management principles and practices, with a focus on customer-centric development and data-driven decisions. They are capable of supporting the team in gathering and refining product requirements, analyzing user feedback, and contributing to technical and operational improvements. With a growing understanding of business analysis and operational processes, they can perform tasks under general supervision. Their work involves delivering solid value while building skills in balancing customer needs with business objectives.
Preferred experience:
- BS/MS in Business, Economics, STEM or equivalent experience
- Experience in product management working with digital products
About Bp
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.
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 a hybrid of office/remote working
Skills:
Commercial Acumen, 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 (Inactive), Data visualization and interpretation, Digital Security, Extract, transform and load, Group Problem Solving
Legal Disclaimer:
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bp’s recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.
