Entity:

Supply, Trading & Shipping

Job Family Group:

Supply & Trading Group

Job Description:

The business-led innovation team (Vista) within bp Supply Trading & Shipping (ST&S) business is set up with the mission to help future-proof the organization. We set out to answer three questions:

• How can technologies today solve yesterday’s problems faced by ST&S?

• How can technologies of tomorrow give us a commercial competitive position today?

• What do we need to do/think/behave differently in a constantly evolving business landscape?

Vista is a global, agile, impact-driven, and solution-agnostic team passionate about identifying and employing innovative technologies, business models, and ecosystem partnerships to address commercial opportunities.

To support the ST&S business, Vista is seeking an experienced and proactive Product Manager to lead digital product delivery for Vista based in the Singapore office.

Key Accountabilities

• Understand the constraints, goals, commercial driver, priorities, timeline of each Vista product to enable effectively Product Delivery.

• Developing Products/Proofs of Concepts/MVPs: Be an integral part of a small team defining clear, commercial business cases substantiated by clear business requirements

• Ensure all requirements (functional and non-functional) are substantiated with impactful reasons

• Map out existing and to-be business processes in a clear, communicable manner for non-technical audience

• Build and identify different user personas

• Lead the product roadmap, prioritize tasks, and conduct regular backlog refinement; & pivot quickly if needed.

• Navigate and enable progress and change in complex, matrix organizations.

• Advocate for Scrum methodologies and procedures & facilitate Scrum ceremonies

• Provide frequent, transparent, clear and relatable updates to business and functional partners

• Indirectly lead engineering teams/squads to drive delivery clarity and call out challenges promptly

• Coordinate and conduct user testing and feedback sessions (including building and leading the test plan and success criteria), use the opportunities to assess the delivery outcome and bring together feedback for further improvement or pivot or termination in an impartial manner

• Monitor and understand the external competitive landscape in trading and innovation

Essential Education, Experience and Job Requirements

• Business / Computer Science or related degree, or higher degree

• Product Management qualifications (CPM, CSPO, PSPO or similar)

• Consistent track record as a digital product manager, with over 7 years of experience, in a technology-focused environment.

• Ability to take an ambiguous business idea (from multiple sources), craft it into an opportunity for experimentation, and see it through product development and scale.

• Advocate for Agile methodologies and continuous improvement ethos.

• Strong communicator with the ability to articulate and write clear Epics, Features, User stories, UAT requirements, as well as craft regular project updates for non-technical collaborators.

• Proficient in using product management tools a good understanding of software development processes.

• Experience in delivering AI-enabled products and a solid understanding of AI technologies and applications, including Generative AI.

• Commercially savvy with the ability to link business needs to roadmap prioritization and identify high-impact requirements.

• Strong time-management and organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task and prioritize across portfolio projects and time zones.

• Excellent partner management skills, with the ability to communicate optimally to both technical and non-technical audiences and both internally and externally.

• Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a globally distributed team environment spanning the US, UK, and Singapore.

• Critical Thinking: Ability to bring together competitive or innovation insights and translate these into impact for Vista and ST&S.

Why join us?

At bp, we support our people to learn and grow in a diverse and challenging environment. We believe that our team is strengthened by diversity. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment in which everyone is respected and treated fairly. There are many aspects of our employees’ lives that are meaningful, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life! These benefits can include flexible working options, paid parental leave policy among others!

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

Travel Requirement

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

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.

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