Senior Product Category Manager – Strategy & Growth

Narooma; North Sydney, Liverpool; Remote; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

GWA Group in Australia seeks an experienced Senior Category Manager – Product to own a significant portfolio across market-leading products. You will shape category strategy, pricing, and new product development, partnering with R&D, sourcing, and supply teams.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on growth, profitability, and lifecycle management from concept to launch and obsolescence. Based in North Sydney or Prestons, you'll travel to customers and suppliers as needed.

Qualifications

• Strong category, product or portfolio management experience
• Proven ownership of category or portfolio performance
• Expertise in pricing, margins and business cases
• Experience leading and managing product development and launches
• Background in manufacturing, building products, plumbing, electrical, hardware, industrial or consumer durables
• Genuine product enthusiasm and technical aptitude, connecting design, manufacture and use with customer value and business results
• Strong commercial judgement, analytical skills and stakeholder management
• Experience navigating large organisations, governance and competing priorities, influencing decisions without direct authority

Responsibilities

• Own category strategy, revenue, margin and profitable growth
• Set pricing, mix and range priorities to improve returns and competitiveness
• Lead product development from opportunity and technical brief to launch and adoption
• Build investment cases with clear customer value, funding needs and returns
• Direct lifecycle priorities across launches, enhancements and range rationalisation
• Turn customer, competitor and market insight into growth opportunities
• Align cross functional teams, remove barriers and hold delivery on track

Job description

GWA Group in Australia seeks an experienced Senior Category Manager – Product to own a significant portfolio across market-leading products. You will shape category strategy, pricing, and new product development, partnering with R&D, sourcing, and supply teams.

This hands-on leadership role focuses on growth, profitability, and lifecycle management from concept to launch and obsolescence. Based in North Sydney or Prestons, you'll travel to customers and suppliers as needed.