This is a senior product leadership role within a large, complex and multi-brand automotive group operating across Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The business has a significant footprint across trade, retail and specialist wholesale, and is in the midst of a wider transformation to simplify operations, strengthen competitiveness and lift commercial performance.
The mandate is clear: bring strategic and commercial discipline to a technically strong but operationally complex portfolio. You'll streamline structures, embed stage-gate discipline, modernise ways of working and build a high-performing team capable of taking a large, diverse product range forward.
The Opportunity You'll lead the portfolio with accountability for product strategy, financial performance, NPD and supplier partnerships. It's a role with significant visibility and genuine opportunity for impact.
What you'll be doing
* Full ownership of a $150M+ multi-brand portfolio, ensuring coverage, competitiveness, customer alignment and profitability.
* Leadership of a 9-person product team, lifting commercial capability, strengthening decision-making discipline and building succession depth.
* Development of a three-year category and range strategy across both owned and market brands.
* P&L accountability, including pricing, promotions, margin optimisation and category growth.
* End-to-end lifecycle management, embedding structured stage-gate and exit processes to reduce complexity and obsolete stock.
* Ownership of the NPD pipeline, from concept and business casing through to launch, training and in-market traction.
* Supplier negotiations, co-funding opportunities and long-term strategic alignment across key partners.
* Cross-functional collaboration with sales, procurement, supply chain, demand planning, retail and marketing to deliver cohesive go-to-market execution and aligned operating rhythms.
What success looks like
* A clear, data-led portfolio strategy with a strong view of where growth will come from.
* A high-performing team operating with structure, speed and commercial clarity.
* Strong supplier partnerships that drive margin, innovation and efficiency.
* Improved lifecycle management and a simplified, better-performing range.
* Confident, well-timed product launches that build early sales momentum.
* Product, sales and brand teams working with aligned processes and expectations.
About you You're a senior product, category or portfolio leader who thrives in large, complex environments. You bring:
* 10+ years' experience in wholesale, distribution, industrial, manufacturing, automotive or similarly complex multi-brand portfolios.
* Demonstrated success in portfolio optimisation, lifecycle simplification and commercial uplift.
* Strong financial acumen with experience managing P&Ls, pricing strategies and commercial levers.
* A track record of building and developing teams, coaching technically strong managers into commercially astute leaders.
* The ability to drive process discipline, simplify complexity and influence across competing stakeholder groups.
* Pragmatism, resilience and emotional maturity, with the ability to lead change in a shifting environment.
* Experience working with international supplier networks is advantageous.
What's on offer
* Leadership of a high-value, strategically important portfolio with significant visibility.
* Opportunity to fix real problems – streamline processes, sharpen commercial outcomes and build a future-ready team.
* A chance to leave a clear legacy by embedding stronger discipline, improving lifecycle management and driving category growth.
* A role with both immediate impact and long-term career potential in a business investing in innovation and continuous improvement.
How to apply
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