What am I doing wrong using the IBM Cloud Block Storage plug-in

Question

I'm trying to install Jenkins on kubernetes hosted on IBMCloud following this guide: Jenkins. However, I'm not able to do the second step, installing and using the block-storage plugin.

Going through the about-me for the plugin, I'm getting the trouble when I create the PVC and try to apply it. The PVC just remains in a pending state (description below). I'm in doubt of the process of creating the volume?

Namespace:     default
StorageClass:  ibmc-block-bronze
Status:        Pending
Volume:
Labels:        billingType=monthly
Annotations:   volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-class: ibmc-block-bronze
               volume.beta.kubernetes.io/storage-provisioner: ibm.io/ibmc-block
Finalizers:    [kubernetes.io/pvc-protection]
Capacity:
Access Modes:
VolumeMode:    Filesystem
Used By:       <none>
Events:
  Type    Reason                Age               From                         Message
  ----    ------                ----              ----                         -------
  Normal  ExternalProvisioning  5s (x2 over 15s)  persistentvolume-controller  waiting for a volume to be created, either by external provisioner "ibm.io/ibmc-block" or manually created by system administrator

Update: As I went with another approach of installing jenkins following Jenkins on K8s, it restricted what I could try out from the comments. I was hoping to just use the catalog from IBMCloud, but there seemed to be more to it.