Entity:

Technology

Job Family Group:

IT&S Group

Job Description:

Role Synopsis

• The bp payments under Mobility & Convenience operates in multiple regions i.e. ANZ, Americas, South Africa and Europe, UK. The team innovates, develops, maintains and drives technology outcomes for the payments aligned to the global technology strategy.

• The Senior 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.

Key Accountabilities

• The Senior Product Manager at this level demonstrates strong expertise in product management practices, including strategic business analysis, customer-focused development, and operational and technical optimization. They independently lead initiatives, refine product strategies, analyzing complex data sets, and drive technical improvements. Their advanced understanding of data-driven decision-making ensures that products meet both customer and business needs. They guide teams through product lifecycles, solve operational challenges, and maintain alignment with organizational goals. With comprehensive knowledge of their domain, they influence outcomes and mentor less experienced team members.

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.

Essential Education:

BS/MS MBA in Business, Economics, STEM or equivalent experience

Essential Experience and Job Requirements:

• At least 8 years’ experience in product management, with a consistent track record of leading complex projects and delivering successful products

• Prior leadership roles with a high level of responsibility

• Stakeholder and Vendor management experience

At bp, we provide the following environment & benefits:

• A company culture where we respect our diverse teams and are proud of our achievements

• Possibility to join social communities and networks

• A healthy work-life balance

• Chill-out and collaboration spaces in a modern office environment

• Learning and development opportunities to craft your career path

• Life & health insurance, medical care package

• And many others benefits!

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!

Travel Requirement

No travel is 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:

Agility core practices, Business modelling, Creativity and Innovation, Data Analysis, Data design, Digital Analytics, Emerging technology monitoring, Information Assurance, Integration, IT Management, IT strategy and planning, Network Design, Requirements definition and management, Risk Management, Service operations and resiliency, Solution Architecture, Systems Development Management, Technical specialism, User Experience Analysis

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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