Product Manager

About

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in analytics, insights and proprietary data across the entire energy and natural resources landscape. For over 50 years our work has guided the decisions of the world’s most influential energy producers, utilities companies, financial institutions and governments. Now, with the world’s energy system more complex and interconnected than ever before, sector-specific views are no longer enough. That’s why we’ve redefined what’s possible with Intelligence Connected. By fusing our unparalleled proprietary data with the sharpest analytical minds, all supercharged by Synoptic AI, we deliver a clear, interconnected view of the entire value chain. Our trusted team of 2,700 experts across 30 countries breaks siloes and connects industries, markets and regions across the globe. This empowers our customers to identify risk sooner, spot opportunities faster and recalibrate strategy with confidence – whether planning days, weeks, months or decades ahead.

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Job Description
Wood Mackenzie’s Long Term Power product team is responsible for a suite of products that enables our customers to make decisions that matter across the energy value chain. Establishing a resilient, sustainable portfolio is critical for energy companies as they develop agile business models to meet net zero goals. We strive to be their partner of choice, offering a range of technical solutions to support the business needs of these companies. Our team delivers integrated analysis across the power sector, enabling customers to navigate energy industry dynamics, and make quicker, more effective decisions.

We are seeking a strategic and technically adept Product Manager to lead on how we develop models that help our customers to answer complex questions and to leverage AI where it adds value to our customer-facing products or our internal data processes. This role sits at the intersection of product, data engineering, and analytics. It is critical to develop our modelling capabilities and scale these with the needs of the business while enabling high-quality, reliable and actionable data for our clients.

Responsibilities

Working in the Long Term Power customer segment, you will be collaborating with our product, data, research, modelling, data science and engineering teams and reporting to the Product Director. You will drive product delivery, set a roadmap and continuously deliver value to our customers.

Responsibilities will include:
- Defining the product vision and strategy for key features within our products, ensuring alignment with business goals, including the roadmap and development of our asset revenue forecasting models
- Leading a wide and varied cross-functional team in the development and execution of product roadmaps
- Building, maintaining, and prioritising a product backlog by writing user stories that include clear acceptance and testing criteria
- Manage product lifecycles from conception to launch, prioritising based on business needs and user feedback
- Analyse market trends and competitor products to identify opportunities
- Collaborate with analysts and data scientists to refine models and improve performance
- Collaborate and align with the research and modelling teams to balance their needs with external clients
- Monitor product performance and ensure it meets established KPIs
- Lead product launch efforts and support marketing and sales teams

Requirements

You will be passionate about solving complex customer problems and bringing great products to market.

Essential Skills
- At least two years of B2B product management experience including owning roadmaps, customer discovery and collaborating closely with engineers, designers and company leadership
- Manage large groups of stakeholders that include senior leadership and subject matter experts
- Write clear product documents, define success metrics and set acceptance criteria
- Being able to explain the value of technical ideas in a way that makes sense to both engineers and business teams
- Leading discovery and managing products that deliver exceptional value to customers
- Experience of tackling big problems, which require complex problem solving
- Excellent oral and written communication skills

Preferred Skills
- Leading teams that include data scientists, engineers, analysts and modellers – being able to remove obstacles so work moves forward quickly
- Solving complex data problems and high-dimensional datasets by working with cross-functional teams
- A keen interest in harnessing ML and AI to solve customer problems
- Prior experience working in the renewable energy or any other regulated B2B sector
- A keen interest in making a difference to the way we power the planet

Benefits

Equal Opportunities
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 www.eeoc.gov

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This role helps energy companies establish resilient, sustainable portfolios to meet net zero goals by developing models and leveraging AI to answer complex questions, enabling customers to navigate energy industry dynamics and make quicker, more effective decisions.

• At least two years of B2B product management experience including owning roadmaps, customer discovery and collaborating closely with engineers, designers and company leadership
• Manage large groups of stakeholders that include senior leadership and subject matter experts
• Write clear product documents, define success metrics and set acceptance criteria
• Being able to explain the value of technical ideas in a way that makes sense to both engineers and business teams
• Leading discovery and managing products that deliver exceptional value to customers
• Experience of tackling big problems, which require complex problem solving
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

No specific benefits, compensation, or salary information mentioned in the job posting.

Wood Mackenzie is the global leader in analytics, insights and proprietary data across the entire energy and natural resources landscape, guiding decisions of influential energy producers, utilities companies, financial institutions and governments for over 50 years.