Product Manager – Global Building Solutions

James Hardie Building Products; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme for eligible employees

Product discounts

Paid parental leave 16 weeks

Job summary

James Hardie Building Products in Sydney seeks a Product Manager to lead product strategy and lifecycle management from concept to market. You will gather requirements, define the vision, and collaborate with R&D, operations, engineering, sales, and marketing to achieve revenue and satisfaction targets.

This role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, pricing strategy, market research, and continuous product improvement across interiors and technologies.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years relevant experience in Product Management &/or Engineering.
• Experience in strategic planning and execution of key business initiatives from conception to implementation, with a focus on driving cross functional collaboration.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, or Engineering is highly advantageous.
• Technical experience in product development, operations, or a related field.
• Proven experience in successfully developing, launching and managing products throughout their lifecycle.
• Strong interpersonal and oral/written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, planning, delivery, and in-life optimization of a product throughout its lifecycle.
• Drive cross-functional initiatives that leverage product opportunities across the business, operations and market.
• Develop and deploy a coherent product strategy via 7 P’s for a given product range, leveraging PDCA to monitor progress.
• Define product positioning and value propositions to maximise customer and business value.
• Partner with Commercial and R&D teams to deliver product enhancements and line extensions from concept through to commercialisation.
• Drive product profitability by identifying growth opportunities, value-added solutions and cost optimisation initiatives.
• Conduct market research and competitor analysis to identify trends, opportunities and risks, and develop strategies to strengthen market position.
• Monitor the market for pricing, manage and execute the pricing strategy for specific products including working with finance on discounts and rebates.
• Manage the entire product life cycle for specific products from inception to end-of-life, ensuring alignment with the 7P's to maximise market impact and profitability.
• Support the Head of Category in effective category management including forecasting and demand planning and ensuring key targets are met.

Skills

Product Management

Cross-functional collab

Strategic planning

Communication

Lifecycle management

Stakeholder alignment

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Marketing/Engineering

Job description

James Hardie Building Products in Sydney seeks a Product Manager to lead product strategy and lifecycle management from concept to market. You will gather requirements, define the vision, and collaborate with R&D, operations, engineering, sales, and marketing to achieve revenue and satisfaction targets.

This role emphasizes cross-functional leadership, pricing strategy, market research, and continuous product improvement across interiors and technologies.