Job Description

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The Role:

Senior Product Manager, Product Management - Emerging Benchmarks, Market Reporting & Trading Solutions (GL11)

The Location: London or Houston

The Team: This role sits in the S&P Global Commodity Insights Product Management team within the Market Reporting & Trading Solutions business line. The role works closely with customers and stakeholders to understand requirements and ensures delivery of products that meet customer needs and aligns with business strategy. As a member of the team, you will play a substantial role in building and maintaining a digital, customer-centric portfolio of commodity information offerings for the global Emerging Benchmarks markets. The primary focus of the product manager in this role will be our shipping product portfolio. In this role you will work with different business functions such as sales, market reporting, technology and marketing to develop and execute the business roadmap to deliver value and solve problems for customers. In addition to this, you will collaborate with other business lines to ensure there is strategic alignment across market reporting and analytics.

The Impact: The value-added solutions for Emerging Benchmarks includes pricing, market insight, and news provided over a variety of digital and machine-delivery mechanisms. The Senior Product Manager will play a substantial role in developing a coherent product offering around these features, delivering to clients (though effective go-to-market), and driving revenue growth.

What\'s in it for you: This position provides the opportunity to play a highly strategic role within S&P Global Commodity Insights, helping to shape and execute the business plans for some of the fastest growing markets. Working within the Product organization provides the opportunity to engage with and gain exposure to all areas of the business, liaising daily with global cross-functional team members and global teams.

Responsibilities

You are responsible for developing 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. In addition, this role will work closely with the Associate Director, Product Management, Emerging Benchmarks and respective content and business stakeholders to identify additional strategic opportunities and build them into the roadmap.

• Lead the development and execution of the roadmap for Emerging Benchmarks markets with focus on shipping, present future enhancements to senior management and advocate for resources
• Optimize product portfolio, identify and implement enhancement in all aspects of offering to ensure competitiveness and gain market leadership position
• Create, maintain and prioritize product development backlogs according to customer demand, business value or ROI
• Attend regular meetings with technology teams to discuss progress and take the appropriate actions to drive delivery
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with customers to build a deep understanding of their needs, workflows and problems.
• Define success metrics and analyze customer feedback and product usage to inform business decisions and prioritize the product roadmap
• Develop and execute on go-to-market plans for product launches and enhancements
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the Product organization and cross-functional stakeholders within the S&P Global business in a highly matrixed environment

What we\'re looking for:

Being held accountable for execution, tangible deliverables and measurable success are common in your past. You are able to demonstrate experience of successful delivery within scope, on time, and in budget.

Basic Qualifications:

• Strong commercial mindset, with the ability to work with many stakeholders and take product from concept to reality
• Experience as a product manager or product owner, preferably at a commodity information, or financial technology company
• Proven track record of creating product roadmaps and executing against these roadmaps incrementally and sustainably
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, and have very strong presentation skills
• Ability to independently manage workload in a fast paced, goal oriented, dynamic and global environment.
• Be a quick learner, showing aptitude to quickly pick up the fundamentals of commodity markets, customer-facing solutions, and company processes
• Experience influencing without authority and managing a diverse sets of stakeholders
• Strong customer mindset with demonstrated ability to engage directly and honestly with customers and deliver positive experience by creating a partnership mentality

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing software following Agile Scrum practices
• Experience in or knowledge of commodity markets is important. Knowledge of shipping, petrochemicals, and/or related commodities such as refined oil products is an advantage.
• Knowledge of front office trading, trade support, and risk management roles, as well as understanding of typical workflows at global commodity trading organizations
• Experience working in relevant environments, such as commodity trading (front desk), market analysis (decision support), analytical tool development and management
• High technical literacy with real-time delivery platforms and toolsets

About S&P Global Commodity Insights

At S&P Global Commodity Insights, we provide the insights; you make better informed trading and business decisions with confidence. We\'re the leading independent provider of information and benchmark prices for the commodities and energy markets. Customers in over 150 countries look to our expertise in news, pricing and analytics to deliver greater transparency and efficiency to markets. S&P Global Commodity Insights coverage includes oil and gas, power, petrochemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.

Compensation/Benefits Information (US Applicants Only):

S&P Global states that the anticipated base salary range for this position is $72,300 to $150,200. Base salary ranges may vary by geographic location. In addition to base compensation, this role is eligible for an annual incentive plan. This role is not eligible for additional compensation such as an annual incentive bonus or sales commission plan. This role is eligible to receive additional S&P Global benefits. For more information on the benefits we provide to our employees, please .



Equal Opportunity Employer

S&P Global is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race/ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, marital status, military veteran status, unemployment status, or any other status protected by law. Only electronic job submissions will be considered for employment.

If you need an accommodation during the application process due to a disability, please send an email to: and your request will be forwarded to the appropriate person.

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PDMGDV103.2 - Middle Management Tier II (EEO Job Group)

Job ID: 292776
Posted On: 2023-09-25
Location: London, United Kingdom

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