Product Manager

Product Manager

London, hybrid

We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Product Manager to lead one of Brady's flagship solutions for short-term power trading!

At Brady Technologies, we are at the forefront of the energy transition, helping market participants navigate new challenges and opportunities with confidence. Our advanced software solutions bring clarity to complex problems and processes, enabling customers to enhance their trading and operations and meet tomorrow’s energy needs. Our product suite serves a diverse client base, including utilities, independent power producers, renewable asset developers, and energy and multi-commodity trading houses. We also provide solutions for oil & gas companies, particularly as they develop their power businesses, state power grid operators, hedge funds and investment management companies.

Our software solutions support critical decision-making and help these regional and global leaders optimise their trading, power operations, and manage complex risks. Our technology facilitates increased automation and efficiency in the face of changing market dynamics including decentralisation, decarbonisation, diversity of generation assets, volatility and evolving regulation. We are proud of the spirit of partnership we have with our customers, many of whom have been with us for a decade or more. Furthermore, we are committed to our values of collaboration, innovation and delivery, to ensure we continue to meet their and the energy market’s needs in the future.

In collaboration with Brady's Product Director, the Product Manager role will be responsible for the product vision, short and long-term product strategies, product roadmaps and product innovation for Brady's flagship short-term power trading software, PowerDesk. Managing two Business Analysts, the Product Manager will interact closely with Brady's customers in the energy sector in order to define, validate and prioritise the product strategy and ensure commercial performance, technical best practice and market leadership. The Product Manager will also work across multiple internal functions and stakeholders including sales, product marketing, services, support and finance, but particularly the engineering team to ensure that the right functionality is built to a high-quality and in a timely manner by defining actionable epics, user stories and acceptance criteria, and prioritising work in the product backlog.

This is a great opportunity to join a product team managing a modern trading platform which solves meaningful problems in a future-looking industry.

Key Priorities:

Vision and strategy:

• Collaborate with the Business Lead to define and evolve product vision ensuring product market leadership and growth

Customer satisfaction:

• Collaborate with sales and support functions to deliver and support opportunities and regularly review and triage backlogs, turning around requests for service in a timely manner

Product Leadership:

• Lead and deliver on PowerDesk's product strategy and direction in line with the company vision and business priorities

Innovation:

• Identify and recommend strategies that will improve the product market position, enable cost reduction and improve quality over product competition

Commercial Accountability:

• Create and own the business cases, including financial justification and governance, for new product investment and driving product P&L performance

Product Backlog:

• Managing two Business Analysts with overall ownership of the product backlog with accountability for the creation of Epics, User Stories with Acceptance Criteria and the prioritisation of the backlog according to the product vision and strategy

Program execution:

• Clearly communicate the vision and strategy of larger business goals in relation to small backlog items

Key Skills/Experience:

• Proven success working as a Product Manager applying product management methodologies in an agile development organisation
• Energy/Power trading industry knowledge a big plus
• Experience of creating strategic plans, business cases, product P&L ownership, roadmaps and leading implementation of roadmaps and customer commitments to deliver tangible measurable results
• Data-driven decision making and commercial focus along the product strategy
• Creation of product roadmaps and prioritisation of roadmap requirements
• Systems thinking to map common requirements patterns in order to define the most effective strategy
• Design driven thinking to refine the requirements and validate with customers
• Ability to document effectively the outcome of the stakeholders input in order to establish data driven commercial priorities
• Excellent communicator, team player and an accountable, responsible individual contributor
• Excellent time management, planning and organisation skills
• Driven by the best value for the customer and Brady

What Brady offers:

• Great compensation + 8% pension + 5% bonus + private health insurance and more!
• 23 days' holiday + bank holidays, increasing by one day per year of service up to 28 days + bank holidays
• 1/2 day off Christmas Eve & New Year's Eve
• 2 days' study leave per annum
• Flexible working hours
• A positive, values-driven culture