Product Manager - United Kingdom - Wood Mackenzie Limited

Description

In the middle of the energy transition, businesses and governments are faced with significant challenges. But the pace and scale of change mean every decision is made under mounting pressure. Now, more than ever, companies need reliable data, analytics and actionable insight.

Wood Mackenzie is the leading global provider of data and analytics solutions for the renewables, energy and natural resources sectors.

Wood Mackenzie's services include data, analytics, insight, events and consultancy. A trusted partner for over 50 years, Wood Mackenzie's team has over 2,300 experts across more than 30 global locations who cover the entire supply chain.

• Inclusive – we succeed together
• Trusting – we choose to trust each other
• Customer committed – we put customers at the heart of our decisions
• Future Focused – we accelerate change
• Curious – we turn knowledge into action

Do you like large-scale software analytics problems? Are you thriving in being one step ahead and solving problems for development teams before they arise? Is defining engineering standards your favourite part of the job?

In this role you will be supporting the development of the platform that powers our customer-focused solutions. The platform provides capabilities that cover data ingestion and management, data modelling, presentation to our customers. Also provided by the platform are the core functions such as identity, notifications, supporting both internal and external customers to understand their business and market.

We are hiring Product Managers across a range of disciplines and product areas to assist with our platform product development, including:

Company Modelling and Valuations

Platform Governance

User interface and experience (UI/UX)

Data ingestion, processing, and management

API development and integration

We are looking for a dynamic Product Manager to be an integral part of a high functioning and innovative team. It requires a unique blend of business knowledge and technical savviness to create the big-picture vision and turn it into reality.

About you and how you can excel in this role

You will be a self-starter, energised by a challenge, passionate about realising and delivering an enterprise data platform to the rest of the business. You will have:

A desire to develop your career in product management, experience in prioritising work and working within often conflicting constraints

Experience of building and supporting PaaS/SaaS platforms for supporting the development and delivery of common capabilities to support a suite of products

Ensure robust Quality Assurance for developed capabilities to support scalability and availability

Internal customer-led experience of leading a team developing a platform or API to support a large-scale analytics platform would be an advantage

Experience of building a medium-term road map for platform capabilities, taking into account a wide range of requests, and prioritising short, medium and long term objectives

Knowledge of data architecture and platforms would be an advantage. Ideally some experience of data management tools and large-scale database supporting analytics including relational and graph databases, and handling archive and real-time data in large volumes

An understanding of Agile, LEAN and iterative software development

Experienced collaborator across diverse customers (Research, Data, UX, Engineering) to achieve customer-focused results

Excellent oral and written communication skills

An interest in making a difference to the way we power the planet

Experience with JIRA and Productboard is a plus

About the role

You'll play a central role in setting the priorities and ensuring a smooth transition of existing pipelines.

Knowledge & experience

Existing Product Owner looking to expand their role within a large analytics environment.

Basic understanding of the product development process including agile software development, design process, and instrumenting analytics

Critical thinking skills

Understand constraints from a range of sources including technical, design, user, cost/value and regulatory

Understand the product development and engineering process from requirement definition through to validation

Basic knowledge on the sector the product serves, understanding of the major players, market conditions, and industry standards

Impact on the team

Foster healthy culture, support and direction for the team

Provide guidance, direction by defining user requirements with clear acceptance criteria across multiple features

Work with tech lead to identify solutions that work within a set of defined constraints

Work with scrum master to identify improved ways of working to support the team

Represent the team while work with senior product management, sales, and marketing to prioritise product value and benefits

Assist in documentation and testing of given solutions to ensure fit for customers

Ability to qualify and validate completed functionality to ensure fit for customers

Ensure team has a broader understanding of their impact on the wider data platform

Participate in daily scrums with engineering teams

Stakeholder & client relationships

Present relevant information to development and design teams to secure buy in and clarify problem statement

Translate requirements from customers and defining the product functionality according to wider customer needs

Inform senior stakeholders on progress and raise risks to the appropriate level

Gather feedback from relevant customers and internal stakeholders

What you'll love about Wood Mackenzie

For the past 45 years, we have established our reputation as a trusted source of knowledge and forward-looking insight for the world's most innovative organizations.

Our teams are located around the world and deliver research and consulting projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies and economic indicators such as market supply, demand and price trends. As a result, we can count the world's key energy institutions and governments among our most loyal customers.

We are committed to supporting our people to grow and thrive. We value different perspectives and aspire to create an inclusive environment that encourages diversity and fosters a sense of belonging. We value everyone's contribution and support them to reach their full potential while sustaining an organisational culture of health and well-being. There are opportunities to get involved in our Wellness, Diversity and Inclusion, and Community Engagement initiatives. We actively support flexible working and are happy to consider alternative work patterns, taking into account your needs and the needs of the team or division that you are looking to join.

Hear what our team has to say about working with us:

We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at

If you are applying for a role and have a physical or mental disability, we will support you with your application or through the hiring process.

If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you'll enjoy your career with us

About Us

Our Work Experience is the combination of everything that's unique about us: our culture, our core values, our company meetings, our commitment to sustainability, our recognition programs, but most importantly, it's our people.

Our employees are self-disciplined, hard working, curious, trustworthy, humble, and truthful. They make choices according to what is best for the team, they live for opportunities to collaborate and make a difference, and they make us the #1 Top Workplace in the area.