Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

bp is an integrated energy company whose purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. But we can’t do it alone. We’re a diverse team of engineers, scientists, traders, and business professionals determined to find answers to problems that must be solved. We believe that our teams are strengthened by diversity. We invite applications from all suitable candidates regardless of your gender, race, sexual orientation, or neurodiversity.

Purpose of the role

A Product Manager takes ownership of overall product and portfolio success, focusing on understanding customer needs and identifying opportunities to significantly improve 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.

Key Accountabilities

Business focused:

• Deeply understands Customers and the opportunities to serve them better. Balances innovation and practical problem solving to drive great customer outcomes

• 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 centred:

• 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

Essential Skills and Experience

• A solid understanding of Software Development and Software Operations along with the concept of DevOps

• 5+ years designing and delivering world-class software products in a Product Management role.

• Demonstrated experience managing the end-to-end product lifecycle for consumer or enterprise offerings.

• Ability to develop and implement a successful product roadmap.

• Experience with Agile development and methodologies

• Proven expertise leading cross-functional teams that together launch timely and on-budget desktop, web, or mobile software product offerings.

• Strong project management skills, including the ability to think and lead sophisticated projects simultaneously.

• Successful history of delivering customer-driven products designed to create a great customer experience.

What’s in it for you?

• Excellent work-life balance & flexible working arrangements

• Career development and mentoring programs

• Generous salary package including annual bonus program

• Share options, and fuel discounts

• Up to 18 weeks paid parental leave/4 weeks paid partner leave

Please be aware that all bp ANZ employees must be Permanent Residents or Citizens of Australia or New Zealand based on the role location.

Travel Requirement

Some travel may be required with this role, this is negotiable

Relocation Assistance:

This role is not eligible for relocation

Remote Type:

This position is a hybrid of office/remote working

Skills:

Agile Software Development, Analytics, Business Analysis, Business Outcomes, Business Values, Data Science, Design Thinking, Digital Innovation, Problem Solving, Product Lifecycle, Product Management, Product Solutions, Product Strategies, Project Management, Strategy

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.