Digital product Senior SME

Entity:

Customers & Products

Job Family Group:

Research & Technology Group

Job Description:

As bp transitions to a coordinated energy company, we must adapt to a changing world and maintain driven performance. bp’s customers & products (C&P) business area is setting up a business and technology centre (BTC) in CITY, COUNTRY. This will support the delivery of an enhanced customer experience and drive innovation by building global capabilities at scale, using technology, and developing deep expertise. The BTC will be a core and connected part of our business, bringing together colleagues who report into their respective part of C&P, working together with other functions across bp. This is an exciting time to join bp and the customers & products BTC!

Job Title:

Digital product Senior SME

About the role:

A Product Manager takes ownership of overall product success at a global Castrol level, focusing on understanding customer needs and identifying opportunities to significantly improve its experience and resulting value. 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 systematic approach to evaluating outcomes, ensuring alignment with bp’s financial, operational, and customer strategies. As a handson contributor, the Product Manager manages daytoday accountability and performance management to achieve product success.

Key accountabilities:

At this level, the Product Manager is proficient in applying core product management principles to achieve business and customer goals. They play an active role in developing customercentric products, leveraging data and user insights to refine strategies and guide decisionmaking. Responsibilities include managing technical and operational processes, defining product requirements, addressing midlevel challenges independently, and performance manage delivery of business and customer value. Collaboration with crossfunctional teams is emphasized, ensuring alignment and prioritization between business strategies and product outcomes. Their ability to balance customer needs, data insights, and operational excellence is evident in their contributions.
Summary outcome is
• Creation of Product Roadmaps
• Creation of Financial Memorandum’s including cost and benefit analysis

Experience & Education:
Education:

• BSMS in Business, Economics, STEM or equivalent experience

  5+ years of experience in product management, with a consistent track record of delivering successful products

  Experience:

  Business focused:
  • Analytical and commercially focused, using datadriven 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, andor regulatory risks
  • Plans and control costs associated with running a product, including collecting, analysing, and reporting costbenefit information to more optimally provide value

  Human centered:
  • Know and empathize with internal andor 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 mentor team members and drive crossdiscipline 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 endstate 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

  
  Travel Requirement

  Negligible 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:

  Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Creating new methodologies, Experimental Design, Formulated product testing, Formulation Deployment, Formulation design, Intellectual Asset Management, Multiphysics modelling, Presenting, Product Development, Product Sustainability Performance Management, Raw materials knowledge, Research and development, Rheology, Safety management across the value chain, Science and Technology Leadership, Scientific publication, Technology Management Processes, Testing electric vehicle charging systems, Thought Leadership, Tribology, Vehicle propulsion technologies, Waterfall Model, Writing skills

  
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