Electrical Distribution Product Manager

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The Global Electrical Distribution Product Manager is responsible for the definition, development and launch of Electrical Distribution products, ensuring customer need, argument, strategic alignment, quality, efficiency are led throughout the Product Lifecycle. Taking ownership for the global delivery, this role will work with a team of specific hardware product managers and liaise with delivery managers and product and launch managers in country or domain teams to drive scale and new market entry of new product offerings. 

This role is in an exciting new area that is responsible for bringing on new hardware, solving difficult customer problems and maintaining the current Hardware portfolio.

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Do you want to contribute to a sustainable future of mobility for people and the planet? Are you ready to make the transition to an electrified world happen? The electric vehicle market is rapidly growing, and as a Global Electrical Distribution Product Manager, you can be at the centre of shaping future mobility solutions that customers love!

bp pulse is one of the fastest growing EV charging networks globally and we need YOU as a Global Electrical Distribution Product Manager to help us on our adventure to help the world transition to an Electric Future and become NetZero. We’re looking to meet the growing global demand for safe, sustainable, and affordable energy.

We aim to deliver the fastest, most convenient network of 100,000 EV charging points worldwide by 2030. To do this, we need to rapidly grow our fantastic team with the best EV and product experts out there.

YOU can help us get there, we’re searching for skilled EV and product experts who are passionate and curious individuals to join our team to help the world electrify!

Key accountabilities and experience by skill categories 

• Ensures all Electrical Supply Equipment products are standardized and compliant with a minimum set of technical requirements.
• Maintains ESE catalogue and provides ESE solutions to regional engineering teams.
• Identifies, prepares and issues product technical specifications; provide technical due diligence during procurement activities; addresses product feedback from local construction and operations teams; conducts product optimization workshop and assesses innovative technologies.
• Conducts innovative technology assessment and plan the implementation into the bp pulse network, provided a positive business reason. Lead Proof of Concept project for the review of new technologies
• Implements solutions to upgrade or refurbish existing assets in operation.
• Improves the performance of existing assets in operation and reduce site related energy costs
• Be familiar with DNO technical requirements for ESE
• Develop Root Cause Fault Analysis and identify solutions to installation, commission, and operation issues.
• Responsible for on-boarding of new ESE suppliers and works as the primary technical contact with the equipment suppliers.

Key characteristics of Global Electrical Distribution Product Manager:

Intellectually curious: comfortable navigating between the big ideas and executional realities to create an achievable strategic product vision. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges.  

Communicator & Influencer: comfortable influencing a group of executives as well as communicating your product vision clearly to your associates and partners. You can be open to different communication styles and listen carefully to diverse sets of ideas.  

Do-er: you're biased toward action and are willing to make commitments and trade-offs with other leaders to remove impediments for your team; you are a leader obsessed with delivering valuable in an iterative way focusing on high quality low TCO Hardware charging products that, ultimately, lead to maximum lovable experiences.  

Passionate & customer focus: you care about growing others and bringing them together around what's possible. You have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs and build long lasting relationships.  

Learner: you have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when exploring unknown technologies; you will seek for internal solutions 

Team player: you enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You are also able to coach others and be a mentor in product development. You are an expert in guiding pods/ sprint team towards outcomes for customers and the business. Provides people leadership, team leadership, and models cross-discipline/org influence.  

Skills & Competencies

• Experience in electrical engineering design and execution.
• Experience in specifying electrical supply equipment.
• Experience in project execution and delivery
• Ability to work in flexible and highly commercially focused way to achieve results.
• Deep experience of electrical infrastructure and the delivery of energy from point of generation to user / load.
• Experience in electric Vehicle Infrastructure and related energy management (load management, smart charging, V2G, Microgrid etc …)
• Experience in the electric vehicle Digital field experience, Software protocols and related business application.
• Team player, strong communication skills

Desirable criteria

• Electrical supply equipment (switchboard, substation) design and manufacturing experience.
• Project Management of similar power and hardware Projects
• Technical and engineering roll out in the EV field
• Attended standardization or regulatory bodies
• Cross cultural and global working
• Operating management systems supporting sustainable process for effective operations.

Travel Requirement

• Some travel may be required with this role,

Essential Education:  

• Engineering degree at mininum, Master would be a plus 

What can we offer you to electrify your career with us?