Data Product Manager

Wood Mackenzie Ltd; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global data analytics firm in Edinburgh is seeking a strategic Data Product Manager to lead the evolution of their data management tools and innovate data leveraging across platforms. The ideal candidate will have proven experience in product management and excellent communication skills. The role involves collaboration with engineering and data teams to optimize data systems, ensuring alignment with business needs. This position offers an exciting opportunity in a dynamic sector aiming at sustainability.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Manager, ideally in data or platform-focused role.
• Familiarity with data pipelines and customer-facing data applications.
• Background in software engineering or data engineering is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and continuous improvement of internal data management tools.
• Collaborate with engineering and data teams to enhance data capabilities.
• Lead initiatives to improve data consistency and quality across systems.
• Advocate for data best practices and drive adoption across the organization.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Stakeholder management

Collaboration

Analytical mindset

Problem-solving

Tools

APIs

SQL

Jupyter Notebook

GraphQL

Snowflake

TypeScript

ReactJS

Job description

Wood Mackenzie is the global data and analytics business for the renewables, energy, and natural resources industries. Enhanced by technology. Enriched by human intelligence. In an ever-changing world, companies and governments need reliable and actionable insight to lead the transition to a sustainable future. That’s why we cover the entire supply chain with unparalleled breadth and depth, backed by over 50 years’ experience. Our team of over 2,400 experts, operating across 30 global locations, are enabling customers’ decisions through real-time analytics, consultancy, events and thought leadership. Together, we deliver the insight they need to separate risk from opportunity and make confident decisions when it matters most.

Wood Mackenzie Values

• Inclusive – we succeed together
• Trusting – we choose to trust each other
• Customer committed – we put customers at the heart of our decisions
• Future Focused – we accelerate change
• Curious – we turn knowledge into action

Job Description

Wood Mackenzie’s Long Term Power product team is responsible for a suite of products that enables our customers to make decisions that matter across the energy value chain. This includes Lens Power, our data analytics platform, that delivers insights at key decision points in end-to-end workflows. Establishing a resilient, sustainable portfolio is critical for energy companies as they develop agile business models to meet net zero goals. We strive to be their partner of choice, offering a range of technical solutions to support the business needs of these companies. Our team delivers integrated analysis across the power sector, enabling customers to navigate energy industry dynamics, and make quicker, more effective decisions.

We are seeking a strategic and technically adept Data Product Manager to lead the evolution of our data management tools, oversee the development of data schemata for the power and renewables sector and drive innovation in how we leverage data across our models and customer-facing platforms. This role sits at the intersection of product, data engineering and analytics. It is critical to ensuring our data capabilities scale with the needs of the business while enabling high-quality, reliable and actionable data for our clients and internal research teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the roadmap and continuous improvement of internal data management tools.
• Collaborate with engineering and data teams to enhance our data capabilities.
• Work with engineering to optimize pipelines for performance, reliability and cost‑efficiency.
• Lead initiatives to improve data consistency, interoperability and quality across systems.
• Identify and evaluate new data sources to enrich our products.
• Collaborate and align with the research and modelling teams to balance their needs with external clients.
• Develop a strategy and roadmap for developing new data sources and enhancing existing ones based on creating new value to clients.
• Act as the bridge between technical teams and business stakeholders to translate data needs into product requirements.
• Advocate for data best practices and drive adoption of data products across the organization.
• Partner with stakeholders across departments to ensure schema alignment with business needs and technical constraints.
• Define success metrics for data products and tooling.
• Monitor usage, performance, and impact, and iterate based on feedback and insights.

Key Skills & Experience

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to collaborate with and align a wide range of stakeholders around a shared vision: product, research, data, engineering and senior leadership.
• Proven experience as a Product Manager, ideally in data or platform‑focused role.
• Familiarity with data pipelines and customer‑facing data applications.
• Analytical mindset with a passion for solving complex data problems.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with APIs, SQL, Jupyter Notebook.
• Background in software engineering or data engineering, including experience with: GraphQL, Snowflake, TypeScript, ReactJS (is a plus).
• Background in the power, renewables or energy industry (is a plus).

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer. This means we are committed to recruiting the best people regardless of their race, colour, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. You can find out more about your rights under the law at https://www.eeoc.gov.

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