The Role
Fisher & Paykel is one of New Zealand's best-known brands, a global company with a strong heritage. Our New Zealand origins, curious nature and passion to develop products designed around people are core elements that make us unique. Driven by our brand values of being trusted, sustainably minded, innovative, generous and curious, as a team we take a collaborative approach, we have a culture where ideas are heard and are united in our leading goal to be the world's most human-centred, #1 premium appliance brand.

The General Manager of Product Line is a rare and exciting opportunity to join our business leading our dishwashing category, based in our Dunedin Design Centre - at the core of this role is the mission to lead growth across global markets and elevate the profit position of Fisher & Paykel Appliances (FPA). As the GM of the Product Line, you will lead the product strategy through to implementation, setting the path to success for F&P Appliances in this category.

Your leadership will span across various key areas:
Product Line Leadership: You will be at the helm, spearheading cross-functional collaboration to achieve our product line objectives. It's your responsibility to ensure that all teams work in harmony towards a common goal.

Product Line Financial Performance: With commercial accountability, you will provide vital input to all business functions in line with FPA strategy, ensuring the achievement of target revenue and margin. You will be influencing Sales & Operations Planning, Pricing, Promotion, Product Development, Quality, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing, all with a view of aligning execution to strategic objectives.

Collaborative and Strategic Product Planning: Leading product range planning, you'll work closely with Product Development, Industrial Design, and Product Management to deliver products that meet the market needs profitably. You'll be the bridge between commercial and market insights, guiding cross-functional product planning, identifying, valuing, and prioritizing opportunities, sharing market trends, insights, and opportunities, and planning product ranges for optimal results. Your proactive approach to design, distribution, and product specifications will drive innovation.

Product Portfolio Optimization: You'll be the guardian of our product's life cycle, ensuring they are optimised, and product ranges are rationalized to meet changing market dynamics.

Product Management Team Leadership: You will have direct line management for the Global Product Manager, providing market intelligence to support decision-making in sales, marketing, and product development.

Driving Commercial Leadership: Maintaining active engagement in the global market context will be your forte, informing strategic direction for product line commercial growth and optimization. You'll set the bar for performance expectations for new product introduction in each market, ensuring sustainable profitable growth.

Market Analysis for Informed Decisions: In-depth market analysis will be a key responsibility. You'll identify gaps and opportunities for portfolio optimisation ensuring that through effective product management the product, marketing and sales strategies are aligned.

Championing Team Leadership: Your leadership doesn't stop at strategy. You're responsible for creating a high-performing product line and product management team. Your coaching and development will nurture their capabilities while aligning with Fisher & Paykel's values.

This is where you come in
You will thrive in an entrepreneurial learning environment, bringing drive and energy, plus the best of Fisher & Paykel systems and relationships, as we build and refine systems and structures.

The primary function of the role is to enhance the profit position of Fisher & Paykel Appliances by leading cross-functional collaboration, alignment, and prioritization to deliver product line objectives short and long term.

You’ll be responsible for providing commercial and market input into collaborative product planning to identify, value and prioritise business gaps and opportunities. You will provide full product life-cycle support to maximise NPI effectiveness, optimize specifications and rationalize product range. Your role will ensure market intelligence is provided to support short- and long-term planning in sales, marketing and product development to enable high quality business decision making.

So who are you?
You’ll be a proven senior leader with a track record of successfully creating a high performing product line / product management team. Your experience with Global multi-national leadership encompasses strategy creation and execution of a Product Line with demonstrated ability to develop the right internal culture to enable business growth, and an expert understanding of the levers required to deliver profitable growth of the product line, delivering a world-class end to end customer experience.

You demonstrate strategic thinking with a highly commercial mind-set and heightened ability to use insight to enhance the customer experience. You’re an influencer who enables cross functional engagement that enhances the product line and the overall business function.

What we offer
We can give you the opportunity to move into a large, complex global organisation headquartered in NZ, where you will gain wide exposure across the business. This role has diverse and exciting challenges and the chance to continually learn and develop.

Along with a competitive salary, flexible working, ongoing development and excellent growth and progression opportunities, as a valued member of our team you’ll enjoy generous discounts on Fisher & Paykel and Haier products, life & disability insurance, discounted medical cover, access to our superannuation scheme and access to our leading Whanau/Family leave offering.

All this, coupled with great leadership and backed by a world leading heritage brand that is consistently ranked as one of New Zealand’s most Trusted Brands… year after year.

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From the grandest of ideas to the smallest of details, every day we're turning our passion into performance and improving life through good design.

Here at Fisher & Paykel we're passionate about our customers and we care about the details. It's this passion that inspires us towards reaching our goal - to become the most human-centred appliance brand in the world.

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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.