Product Manager

at  SP Global

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR:

Understanding of the full product lifecycle
Understanding of the delivery of a product through an agile development process
Ability to prioritise, plan and schedule work
Ability to multi-task in a challenging environment
Must be organized and able to manage multiple projects and relationships in parallel
Technical writing skills for writing release notes
Prior financial services industry experience
Demonstrated track record working across technology, data and information systems software

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.

ABOUT THE ROLE:

Grade Level (for internal use): 09
Product Manager
The Role involves working with thinkFolio product team in the S&P Global Market Intelligence Division. Within that team the role involves working as a Product Manager in the Continuous Improvement scrum. The thinkFolio Continuous Improvement scrum contains personnel from Development, QA and Product. The team are geographically located across Western and Eastern Europe, Asia and North America. Intra-team communication takes place mainly over Microsoft Teams calls.The team is responsible for the management of thinkFolio software from a Business As Usual (BAU) perspective. There is a single version of thinkFolio software. New thinkFolio software updates are delivered monthly

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

Scheduling and planning the scope of a monthly delivery from a Continuous Improvement scrum upto 3 months ahead of time
Ensuring that all of the development items making up that content meet the team Definition of Done
Setting the expectations of any customers planning to take that software update as to the content of that software update
Ensuring there is sufficient Dev/QA resource to complete the software update in a timely manner, escalating where there is not enough time
Managing against scope creep where possible, re-planning for late important items where necessary
Ensuring that the other thinkFolio scrum teams can keep to the monthly schedule, escalating where it becomes clear that they cannot
Occasionally supporting QA by testing items
Co-ordinate the completion and delivery on the monthly software update and associated documentation
In addition to scheduled monthly software updates the team is also responsible for delivering unscheduled, customer specific software updates to remediate, agreed Priority 1 production issues (’Hotfixes’) at customers, these follow the same process as the monthly delivery updates but are delivered ad-hoc
Within the team the role necessitates the ownership (together with the team scrum master other product managers of the team) of the following agile ceremonies
Backlog management/grooming
Planning/Scheduling of scheduled monthly deliveries
Weekly/Ad-hoc Refinement and Replenishment sessions
Triage of newly raised items and discussions as to their Feasibility with senior members of the thinkFolio team
Review and Retrospective of the monthly deliveries and the team’s performance

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.