Product Manager

Church Crookham, Hampshire
BP
Job Profile Summary Product Manager
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We are looking for a Product Manager who will be part of the Digital Engineering Center of Excellence (CoE) reporting directly to the VP of Digital Engineering. In this role you’ll lead technical training, documentation, and education programs across bp. This includes a software engineering bootcamp on day 1 to on-going engineering and operational excellence “best practices” trainings. You’ll use data from the software engineering community to identify gaps of knowledge and then create the right mixture of content to address those gaps.

Activities

• Collaborates with technical leaders to define strategy and approach for training programs.
• Takes care of the overall milestone planning, execution, delivery, and release of training content and documentation.
• Develop surveys and metrics to identify gaps in knowledge and then drive programs to improve those metrics over time.
• Own a day 1 bootcamp for software engineers and run it on an on-going basis.

• Brings together different disciplines from UX, Product, Software, etc. to identify common training needs and gaps.
• Coach and mentor other product managers and leaders working in the training and education space.

Competencies:

• User-first mindset
• Understand and appreciate the importance of discovery and user experience design process
• Have sound understanding of modern software engineering (DevOps; CICD, automation, QA, tooling, etc)
• Be delivery orientated
• Demonstrate agile ways of working (agile ceremonies, backlog prioritisation)
• Communicate clearly and concisely
• Bring new collaboration techniques to the table
• Demonstrate a flexible mind set
• Be respectful and embrace inclusion
• Be a team player

Expected Knowledge

• Past experience leading and owning training and documentation programs.
• Solid understanding and experience of current software development processes, including cloud-based delivery.
• A good overall knowledge of project delivery and agile practices.
• Information Technology degree or educational background preferred.

Skills:

• Communication – Able to relate to and communicate with both business and technology people
• Stakeholder management – Able to understand and respond to the drivers and concerns of a wide range of both business and technical stakeholders
• Conflict resolution – Must be able to facilitate discussion and the development of alternatives or different approaches
• Political awareness – Be able to work/collaborate/communicate effectively with upper management, stakeholders, and other external dependencies.
• Problem solving skills – organizational and analytical skills, and the ability to work round obstacles to get things done
• Partner/Supplier management – Understanding of key processes and how to get the best from our Partners.

Behaviour

• Enthusiastic – High-energy
• Focus on Continuous improvement – Must continually be looking to improve their own skills and encourage the team to do the same
• Attitude of empowerment – Must be able to lead a team towards self-organization
• Flexibility: Demonstrate sensitivity to the organizational environment. Tolerate ambiguity, shift priorities, change style and respond with new approaches as needed to deal with the demands of changed conditions
• Initiative: Actively and enthusiastically attempt to influence events. Seek opportunities to originate action. Act beyond explicit requests and approach work in an optimistic manner. Be a self-starter

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Entity Innovation & Engineering
Job Family Group IT&S Group
Relocation available No
Travel required No
Time Type Full time
Country United Kingdom
About BP INNOVATION & ENGINEERING

Join us in creating, growing, and delivering innovation at pace, enabling us to thrive while transitioning to a net zero ‎world. All without compromising our operational risk management.

Working with us, you can do this by:

• deploying our integrated capability and standards in service of our net zero and ‎safety ambitions
• driving our digital transformation and pioneering new business models
• collaborating to deliver competitive customer-focused energy solutions
• originating, scaling and commercialising innovative ideas, and creating ground-breaking new ‎businesses from them
• protecting us by assuring management of our greatest physical and digital risks

Because together we are:

• Originators, builders, guardians and disruptors
• Engineers, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs‎
• Empathetic, curious, creative and inclusive