Associate Director , Product Management

S&P Global; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm is seeking an Associate Director in Product Management to drive market reporting and develop product strategies. Candidates should have a strong commercial mindset and proven product management experience. The role requires effective communication skills and the ability to work with various stakeholders. This position offers a unique opportunity to influence the direction of market products in rapidly growing sectors.

Benefits

Health care coverage

Generous time off

Continuous learning resources

Competitive pay and retirement planning

Family-friendly benefits

Retail discounts

Qualifications

• Proven track record of creating product roadmaps and executing them sustainably.
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely with stakeholders.
• Experience influencing without authority and managing diverse stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute product strategies that drive revenue.
• Lead the development of the roadmap for Emerging Benchmarks.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers.

Skills

Strong commercial mindset

Product management experience

Strong presentation skills

Ability to manage workload independently

Customer-focused mindset

Job description

About the Role

Grade Level (for internal use): 12

The Role: Associate Director, Product Management – Emerging Benchmarks, Market Reporting & Trading Solutions

Grade (relevant for internal applicants only): 12

The Location: London, Houston, Singapore – ALL

The Team

This role sits in the S&P Global Commodity Insights Product organization within 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. In this role you will work with different business functions such as sales, editorial, technology and marketing to develop and execute a customer‑centric roadmap that solves problems for customers. In addition to this, you will collaborate with other business lines to ensure there is strategic alignment across pricing and analytics segments.

The Impact

The solution for Emerging Benchmarks includes pricing, market insight, and news. The Product Manager will play a substantial role in developing a coherent product offering around these features, delivering it to clients (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 the business plan for some of the fastest growing markets such as Petrochemicals. Working within the Product organization also gives the opportunity to engage with and gain exposure to all areas of the business, liaising with cross‑functional team members and global teams on a daily basis.

Responsibilities

You are responsible for developing and executing 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 Emerging Benchmarks Product Lead and respective content leadership to identify additional strategic expansion opportunities and build them into the roadmap.

• Lead the development of the roadmap for Emerging Benchmarks markets, present future enhancements to senior management and advocate for resources
• Create, maintain and prioritize a product backlog according to business value or ROI
• Attend regular meetings with the technology team 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 analyse customer feedback and product usage in order to feed that back into the product roadmap
• Develop and execute on go‑to‑market plans for product rollout/launch
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the Product organization and internal 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 on scope, in time, and on budget.

Basic Qualifications

• Strong commercial mindset, with the ability to work with many stakeholders and take product form idea to reality
• Experience as a product manager, preferably at a commodity information, or data company
• Proven track record of creating product roadmaps and executing them against these roadmaps incrementally and sustainably
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, and have strong presentation skills
• Ability to independently manage workload in a fast paced, goal oriented, dynamic environment.
• Be a quick learner, showing aptitude to quickly pick up the fundamentals of commodity markets and company processes
• Experience influencing without authority and managing a diverse sets of stakeholders
• Strong customer mind set 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
• Exposure to commodity markets is important. Knowledge of Chemicals or other commodity markets is highly desirable.
• 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, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long‑term, sustainable value.

We’re a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co‑create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture and shipping.

S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). S&P Global is the world’s foremost provider of credit ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global capital, commodity and automotive markets. With every one of our offerings, we help many of the world’s leading organizations navigate the economic landscape so they can plan for tomorrow, today.

For more information, visit http://www.spglobal.com/commodity-insights.

What’s In It For You?

Our Purpose: Progress is not a self‑starter. It requires a catalyst to be set in motion. Information, imagination, people, technology—the right combination can unlock possibility and change the world. Our world is in transition and getting more complex by the day. We push past expected observations and seek out new levels of understanding so that we can help companies, governments and individuals make an impact on tomorrow. At S&P Global we transform data into Essential Intelligence®, pinpointing risks and opening possibilities. We Accelerate Progress.

Our People: We’re more than 35,000 strong worldwide—so we’re able to understand nuances while having a broad perspective. Our team is driven by curiosity and a shared belief that Essential Intelligence can help build a more prosperous future for us all. From finding new ways to measure sustainability to analyzing energy transition across the supply chain to building workflow solutions that make it easy to tap into insight and apply it. We are changing the way people see things and empowering them to make an impact on the world we live in. We’re committed to a more equitable future and to helping our customers find new, sustainable ways of doing business. We’re constantly seeking new solutions that have progress in mind. Join us and help create the critical insights that truly make a difference.

Our Values: Integrity, Discovery, Partnership.

At S&P Global, we focus on Powering Global Markets. Throughout our history, the world's leading organizations have relied on us for the Essential Intelligence they need to make confident decisions about the road ahead. We start with a foundation of integrity in all we do, bring a spirit of discovery to our work, and collaborate in close partnership with each other and our customers to achieve shared goals.

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Health care coverage designed for the mind and body.
• Flexible Downtime: Generous time off helps keep you energized for your time on.
• Continuous Learning: Access a wealth of resources to grow your career and learn valuable new skills.
• Invest in Your Future: Secure your financial future through competitive pay, retirement planning, a continuing education program with a company‑matched student loan contribution, and financial wellness programs.
• Family Friendly Perks: It’s not just about you. S&P Global has perks for your partners and little ones, too, with some best‑in‑class benefits for families.
• Beyond the Basics: From retail discounts to referral incentive awards—small perks can make a big difference.

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