Product Director

Company Description

Wood Mackenzie are the global research, analytics, and consultancy business powering the natural resources industry. For 50 years, we have been providing the quality data, analytics, and insights our customers rely on to inspire their decision making.

Our dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, metals & mining sector teams are located around the world and deliver a variety of projects based on our assessment and valuation of thousands of individual assets, companies, and economic indicators such as market supply, demand, and price trends.

We have over 1,900 employees in 30 locations, serving customers in nearly 80 countries. Together, we inspire and innovate the markets we serve – providing invaluable intelligence to help our customers overcome the toughest challenges, and make strategic decisions that will, ultimately, accelerate the world’s transition to a more sustainable future.

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Job Description

Wood Mackenzie are an industry-leading data analytics company that provides analysis and insight on the world’s natural resources with offices all around the globe. The team are working on a next generation, data analysis & visualization platform utilized by our customer to drive billion-dollar decisions. 

We are looking for a dynamic, experienced Product Director to lead the strategic direction of our large portfolio of commercially-successful energy market products. This role is an integral part of a high-functioning and innovative team, and requires a unique blend of communication skills, leadership, business and technical savvy to create and execute a big-picture strategy. 

About you and how you can excel in this role 

You will be a self-starter, energised by a challenge, passionate about bringing great products to market, and love the thrill of creating a new standard for what’s possible. You will have; 

• Significant demonstrable Product Management experience at least at Senior or Lead level 
• Experience of managing a complex multi-product portfolio 
• Advanced stakeholder communication skills, being able to bring them on board with your vision, and being able to break bad news gracefully 
• Previous experience in the energy market or B2B information sectors would be helpful, but is not essential 
• Experience of frequent, meaningful customer engagements that led to positive commercial outcomes 
• A deep understanding of customer and business value and the ability to make smart trade-offs and prioritisation decisions 
• Agile, and iterative software product development expertise 
• Excellent oral and writing communication skills 
• An interest in making a difference to the way we power the planet 

Qualifications

You will lead and drive a program of product enhancements, monitoring and owing return on investment, and communicating with a large and varied stakeholder group including senior management on a daily basis. You will also need to keep an eye on the broader corporate picture, as we transform our services, products and platforms, to ensure strategic fit. 

You will be responsible for overseeing Product Management, planning and execution throughout the product lifecycle, across a natural resource and energy markets portfolio including;  

Knowledge & experience 

• Lead teams through the product development cycle and optimize the processes 
• Ability to clearly prioritize resource allocation and commercial priorities across portfolio of products 
• Keep abreast of changes in your product’s industry 
• Best practices for agile product development and ongoing learning and experimenting with those systems 

Impact on strategy 

• Assess market for strategic opportunities and build relevant cases to address the opportunities 
• Optimize team allocations for execution against business strategy 
• Own area of business strategy 

Stakeholder & client relationships 

• Regular contact with target customers to discuss their company direction 
• Facilitate and deliver cross company communication about products portfolio 
• Manage executive expectations on portfolio delivery 

Leadership 

• Act as, and be seen as, a respected and trusted strategic leader both to the product team and the wider organisation 
• Proactively develop strong ideas and strategic proposals to drive the business forward 
• Support product leadership team in defining and communicating roadmaps and product delivery expectations 
• Foster team morale and motivation and encourage a culture of innovation focused on adding v