Product Manager

The Role: Product Manager

Grade: 12A
The Location: London

The Team: As a member of the S&P Global Platts Product Management team, you will join the group responsible for delivering a new digital, customer-centric portfolio of commodity information offerings across multiple markets and geographies.  You will work closely with colleagues in IT, sales, marketing and content to execute on product enhancements that solve problems for our customers.

The Impact:
• Own product solutions for specific market sectors.
• Champion the entire product development process from understanding customer needs , to project management and Agile development, through to go-to-market and driving customer adoption.

What’s in it for you:
• You will develop the product vision, capture and prioritize requirements, and define the product roadmap.
• You will lead the cross-functional resources necessary to plan and execute on the roadmap.
• You will be expected to become a subject matter expert in the market sectors in which you operate, interacting with customers frequently and developing a deep understanding of their needs, workflows and problems.

Responsibilities
You are responsible for owning and executing on product strategies, ultimately driving revenue by meeting the needs of current clients, displacing competitors, penetrating new markets, solving new problems, or selling to new client bases.
Your job is to build the best possible product for our clients, including:
• Serving as product or project owner on high-profile, high-impact deliverables
• Driving product roadmap and execution
• Providing vision and direction to Agile development teams
• Defining requirements that pinpoint business challenges and identify the technical and business changes required to address them
• Developing and executing on go-to-market plans for product rollout/launch
• Working closely with sales to identify opportunities and agree sales plans
• Analyzing customers’ product usage and connecting implications to the product roadmap

What we’re looking for:

Ideally you will:
• Have a successful track record as a product manager at an information business or a related business such as a commodity exchange
• Have experience of commodity markets, such as energy, petrochemicals, agriculture, metals or shipping
• Want to impact thousands of people by designing and building high-quality product solutions

Qualifications:
• You will probably have 5-10 years of relevant industry and product management experience
• Exposure to commodity markets
• Understanding of technology and experience of working in an Agile environment
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely
• Familiarity with the Pragmatic Marketing or Sirius frameworks would be an advantage.

About S&P Global Platts
S&P Global Platts is a premier source of market pricing, news, analysis, analytics and commodities intelligence. At Platts, the intelligence you generate and the relationships you build are essential to the energy, petrochemicals, shipping, metals and agricultural markets. www.platts.com