Job Family Group:

Research & Technology Group

Job Description:

Castrol is a global leader in lubricants and part of the bp Group, one of the worlds largest energy companies. In India, Castrol is a publicly listed company, leading in the Automotive, Industrial, and Marine lubricant sectors. With iconic brands, steadfast innovation, strong customer relationships, and a team of highly motivated employees, we have maintained our market leadership in India for over a century. Our robust manufacturing and distribution network in India helps us reach consumers through more than 135,000 outlets.

At Castrol, success knows no bounds. We offer a fast-paced learning environment where you can develop your career, whether in specialized functions or on a general management track. Castrol India has a proud legacy of championing top talent for leadership roles, both locally and globally.

This is a role within the Castrol organisation, and the successful candidate will become part of the Castrol ring-fence.  If you are part of the ring-fence, it is expected that your employment will move with Castrol to new ownership.

About the role:

A Product Manager takes ownership of overall product success at a global Castrol level, focusing on understanding customer needs and identifying opportunities to significantly improve its experience and resulting value. This role involves defining product strategy, crafting a compelling vision, and driving the product lifecycle from concept to launch and scaling. Collaboration is key, working closely with engineers, designers, and business partners to deliver impactful solutions. The role requires a systematic approach to evaluating outcomes, ensuring alignment with bps financial, operational, and customer strategies. As a hands-on contributor, the Product Manager manages day-to-day accountability and performance management to achieve product success.

Shift Timing: 1:00pm to 10:00pm IST or 2:00pm to 11pm IST

Key Accountabilities:

At this level, the Product Manager is proficient in applying core product management principles to achieve business and customer goals.

They play an active role in developing customer-centric products, leveraging data and user insights to refine strategies and guide decision-making.

Responsibilities include managing technical and operational processes, defining product requirements, addressing mid-level challenges independently, and performance manage delivery of business and customer value. Collaboration with cross-functional teams is emphasized, ensuring alignment and prioritization between business strategies and product outcomes.

Their ability to balance customer needs, data insights, and operational excellence is evident in their contributions.
Summary outcome is
    Creation of Product Roadmaps
    Creation of Financial Memorandums including cost and benefit analysis 

Experience Required: 8+ years of experience in product management, with a consistent track record of delivering successful products

Essential:
Business focused: 
    Analytical and commercially focused, using data-driven insights, metrics, and analytics to evaluate product performance and link outcomes to strategy
    Clearly define why we are pushing a product, considering market, competitor, technical, and operational aspects of bps strategy and vision
    Understand business and technical economic value, such as TCO, unit economics, NPV, ROIC, and other commercial measures
    Translate vision into strategic product roadmaps with an agile delivery approach in partnership with Tech while handling cyber, operational, and/or regulatory risks
    Plans and control costs associated with running a product, including collecting, analysing, and reporting cost/benefit information to more optimally provide value

Human centered: 
    Know and empathize with internal and/or external customer(s) needs to reinvent and innovate product solutions 
    Integrate customer and partner feedback loops to ensure that product solutions and outcomes meet organizational needs
    Ability to coach team members and drive cross-discipline problem solving to achieve business outcomes
Technology driven: 
    Use lean, iterative experiments and low-fidelity prototyping to find signal, validate hypothesis, and iterate before moving to scale
    Collaborate with partners to define end-state architecture and drive secure, resilient, performant, and scalable technology solutions
    Engage with partners on data management, laying out how data is processed, stored, accessed, and protected
    Assess opportunities for reusing enterprise solutions and build new platforms with enterprise scalability in mind
    A keen curiosity about emerging tools and technologies!

Culture:

bp believes in creating a culture that allows you to live our purpose, play to win while caring for others - and there is a huge focus on diversity equity and inclusion. We are a very open and respectful organization, where there is a lot of respect given to listening to all perspectives and hence people are encouraged to speak up, contribute at all levels irrespective of level or department.

The marketing team is a bunch of energetic and passionate individuals from varied backgrounds, and we thrive on being able to learn from each other as well as a lot of external orientation from the best in the industry. we deeply value partnerships especially with our sales colleagues and strongly believe in the power of igniting one team to be able to break barriers, challenge status quo and create new achievements.

Travel Requirement:

Negligible travel should be expected with this role

Relocation Assistance:

This role is eligible for relocation within country

Remote Type:

This position is not available for remote working

Skills:

Agility core practices, Agility core practices, Analytical Thinking, Artificial intelligence, Creating new methodologies, Experimental Design, Formulated product testing, Formulation Deployment, Formulation design, Influencing, Intellectual Asset Management, Multi-physics modelling, Presenting, Product Development, Product Sustainability Performance Management, Project Management, Raw materials knowledge, Research and Development, Rheology, Safety management across the value chain, Science and Technology Leadership, Scientific publication, Technology Management Processes, Testing electric vehicle charging systems, Thought Leadership {+ 2 more}

Legal Disclaimer:

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, socioeconomic status, neurodiversity/neurocognitive functioning, veteran status or disability status. Individuals with an accessibility need may request an adjustment/accommodation related to bps recruiting process (e.g., accessing the job application, completing required assessments, participating in telephone screenings or interviews, etc.). If you would like to request an adjustment/accommodation related to the recruitment process, please contact us.

If you are selected for a position and depending upon your role, your employment may be contingent upon adherence to local policy. This may include pre-placement drug screening, medical review of physical fitness for the role, and background checks.