Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

The Energy & Commodities sector is going through unprecedented transformation.  Publicis Sapient are well known as a leader in Digital Transformation and we are seeing our clients in Supply & Trading pursuing new, modern architectures and ways of working. 

Our deep experience in established E/CTRM solutions like Endur (and others) combined with digital product management mean our services are in high demand, as our existing clients seek to accelerate their transformation journeys, and potentially new clients seek partners to start their own.

We have plenty of opportunities to be part of fantastic teams, leading change across all asset classes.  We are currently working on defining target architectures based on Cloud, building azure native solutions to re-imagine data in E/CTRM, integrating renewables portfolios in trading ecosystems and optimising/extending state of the art E/CTRM installations. In short, we have plenty of exciting transformational initiatives going on and about to start.

If you are as passionate as we are about making a mark in the Energy Transition, please apply if the role below matches your career experience. 

As a Senior Product Manager (Energy & Commodities - Supply & Trading) at Publicis Sapient, you act as your clients’ trusted advisor in leading the overall vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritisation for a specific digital product, or products, within an engagement. You will collaborate with clients in the Energy industry with a focus on energy commodities trading, undertaking major Digital Business Transformation (DBT) engagements to understand their business, end-customer needs, and then constantly deliver value with fast increment cycles.

Your Impact

• Partner with client(s), strategists, experience leads, and architects to frame business goals and value pools from which we can shape product propositions that provide transformative business outcomes and customer experience
• Develop product vision, strategy, market/user research, by keeping the customer at the centre of everything we do while using design thinking tools
• Represent client in ideation workshops with cross-functional leaders where you identify new ideas, customer needs, pain points, and solution options
• Develop solution hypotheses iteratively, based on user research, and industry and market trend analysis
• Translate product vision into a roadmap containing well-defined, prioritised features that will realise the product vision and value
• Serve as a voice of the customer among the cross-functional team, always understanding the customer needs
• Establish objective goals for the product with success and acceptance criteria using meaningful metrics, KPIs, and quantifiable business outcomes
• Collaborate with product owners, solution managers, and cross-functional product managers, to ensure alignment towards the same programme increment (PI) objectives, as well as with system architects to envision and prioritise system enablers
• Inspire, lead, and mentor, a high-performing team of Product Analysts to continually facilitate improvements in developing and enhancing best-in-class digital products and services

• Demonstrated success creating digital products vision, strategy, experience, and enterprise solutions and services - from ideation to launch, including engineering and operational quality
• Relevant industry knowledge and expertise within the Commodity / Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) space
• Experience working with a multi-disciplinary team on customer-focused products and services
• Deeply rooted in Agile, Lean, and continuous delivery principles that maximise flow of value with a passion to extend this understanding throughout the organisation
• Practice in workshop facilitation to cultivate the ideation
• Proven track record of working with senior client stakeholder and diverse teams as a servant leader and steward of economic and customer value
• Mastery in leading change and inspire others to change behaviours
• Influencer in continuous learning and innovation

Set yourself apart with

• Certified SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager designation
• Certified Agile Product Manager designation

Benefits of Working Here

• We have got you and your family covered with 25 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), life assurance, dental insurance, income protection, critical illness cover, private healthcare for you AND your family (pre-existing conditions included), and a pension
• We know the importance of health and wellbeing so offer you extensive retail discount offers and further reimbursement towards activities that contribute to a healthier lifestyle
• Free and delicious coffee served by our very own in-house baristas
• We are proud to actively invest in your learning through various learning platforms
• Diversity and inclusion aren't just buzzwords. We offer an inclusive environment through our inspirational business resource groups and work with you to give back to the local community through CSR efforts