Head of Product

The Role

The Role

Overall responsibility for market product planning, new product introductions, and product line performance to increase market share and deliver profitable growth in the short and long term. 

Leads effective execution of F&P pricing strategy in market across retail, builder, and ecommerce channels aligned to F&P’s brand positioning strategy. 

Provides inspirational leadership, and direction to the product team that increases product market share and profitable growth across product lines aligned to F&P’s global goal and strategic imperatives. 

You Will

Strategic Planning & Execution 

• Responsible for the planning and execution of product line strategy in market. Including new product introductions, portfolio optimisation, and pricing ensuring alignment with global imperatives and growth aspirations. 

• Ensures the strategic plan is translated to their Team for the identification of executable actions that deliver to the strategy, resulting in increased product market share and profitable growth. 

• Ensures disciplined and effective execution of those plans, including identified priority changes and transformation activity. 

• Promotes personal responsibility for tracking and reporting on the progress of the strategic plan’s implementation, through the use of People + Goal processes and tools, to drive delivery to plan. 

• Provides quality, hands on leadership, creating a thoughtful vision of what success looks like to engage the people to deliver the right work that will strengthen FP’s performance.  

• Ensures appropriate stakeholder management approaches are taken with the product line to ensure highly effective cross-functional collaboration with global supporting functions. 

• Provides regular reporting updates on product line performance to the Executive Management and as well as across the local and global Market Group. 

Product Line 

• Deeply understands the product lines and their price positioning in market, including hard and soft factors that influence these things. 

• Keeps current on changes and best practice that influence Product Line’s strategic plans. 

• Manages and cultivates cross-business execution of product introductions into the market to leverage growth opportunities. 

• Drives portfolio optimisation ensuring correct positioning and mix of high performing products, and rationalising of low performing products, aligned to F&P’s strategic positioning and goals. 

• Identifies and establishes new market opportunities for product introductions, cultivating a momentum of enthusiasm and pull for F&P’s brand, vision and products. 

• Ensures a seamless, brand aligned representation of F&P’s brand value proposition is applied across all customer touch points of the product line. 

• Ensures all activities of the product line are performed in compliance with state, and federal regulations and laws governing business. 

Product Line Operational Leadership 

• Drives Operational Excellence through a weekly cadence of operational and People + Goal forums, process and tools, adhering to the key principles of: clear accountability, forward focus, local leadership, global participation and efficiency. 

• Effective, visible leadership that influences a culture of energy and enthusiasm.  Role models F&P’s behaviours and demonstrates direct knowledge of functions within the product team and their important role they play in connecting to market strategy.   

• Oversees and ensures effective financial management of the product lines (planning, forecasting, budgeting, reporting and audit) with a significant focus on driving revenue and margin growth and increased profitability. 

• Partners with the Financial Manager in preparation and submission of annual operational budgets, managing effectively within this budget, and reporting accurately on progress made and challenges encountered. 

• Leverages cross-functional strengths to take advantage of new opportunities and/or to address organisational challenges that either hinder or are needed to progress the performance and customer experience of the product line. 

Product Team Leadership 

• Ensures product line’s adherence to maintaining global alignment of F&P’s Market organisational design by working with F&P’s central team when identifying a need for new roles. 

• Coaches, develops, and retains high-performing leaders with an emphasis on developing capability in strategic areas of product.   

• Ensures deep understanding of F&P’s brand aspiration, vision and strategic direction. 

• Takes responsibility for establishing and aligning a culture which demonstrates F&P’s brand values and step up behaviours 

• Leads recruitment, and development of leadership roles, ensuring the acquisition of talent has the critical capabilities needed to deliver to F&P’s growth plans.  

• Sustains all people practises that underpin a high performing team. 

• Partners with, and supports the development and implementation of leadership training programs with a focus on increasing leadership capability across the Market Group. 

You Have:

• Global multi-national leadership including strategy creation and execution of a Product Line. 
• Proven leadership, with a track record, of successfully transforming and growing a Product Line that increased market share and profitability growth. 
• Business leadership across functional areas of a global consumer organisation including budget and fiscal management experience 
• Proven experience as a senior operational leader – encompassing sales, warehousing, and customer service business 
• Strong financial understanding and analytical skills.Ability to develop and apply the best commercial and financial solution for the right situation and environment.  
• Ability to develop and implement effective customer relationship management strategies.
• Expert understanding of the levers required to deliver profitable growth of the product line and deliver a world-class end to end customer experience.   
• University undergraduate degree. Additional MBA or business-related qualification desired but not essential.

Fisher & Paykel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.

Fisher & Paykel is an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.