Senior Product Strategy & Innovation Lead

Murrumbidgee Irrigation; Griffith City; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive remuneration

Salary packaging options

Career development

Wellbeing benefits

Annual skin checks

Job summary

Murrumbidgee Irrigation is seeking an experienced Product Development Manager to lead Growth, Research and Innovations and shape the future of infrastructure and technology-enabled products.

The role is responsible for strategic direction, commercial performance and lifecycle management of a diverse portfolio, translating insights into clear strategies and delivery roadmaps that deliver value for customers and sustainable returns for the company.

Qualifications

• 5 years experience in product management, solution management or innovation roles within operational or infrastructure environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading products through full lifecycle stages including discovery, investment decision making and delivery.
• Strong ability to influence cross functional teams without formal authority.
• Proven commercial judgement including prioritisation, trade off analysis and value realisation.
• Experience operating in regulated, asset intensive or technology enabled environments.

Responsibilities

• Own and continuously refine the product strategy and roadmap for the assigned portfolio, aligned to corporate strategy, customer needs and commercial objectives
• Lead products through the full lifecycle from discovery and validation through development, launch, adoption, optimisation and retirement
• Identify and evaluate emerging technologies, research opportunities and partnerships that support organisational strategy and long-term capability
• Provide clear product direction to engineering, data science, IT, operations and external partners through well-defined requirements and outcome-based success measures
• Engage directly with customers, operational teams, partners and leadership to understand needs, test assumptions and inform product decisions
• Work closely with stakeholders including customer services, data science, engineering, information technology and operations, balancing customer outcomes, risk, cost and long-term asset and technology strategy

Skills

Product management

Lifecycle management

Cross-functional influence

Commercial judgement

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Engineering/Tech/Business/Agri degree

Job description

Murrumbidgee Irrigation is seeking an experienced Product Development Manager to lead Growth, Research and Innovations and shape the future of infrastructure and technology-enabled products.

The role is responsible for strategic direction, commercial performance and lifecycle management of a diverse portfolio, translating insights into clear strategies and delivery roadmaps that deliver value for customers and sustainable returns for the company.