About this role
Company Description
Fixed Term Role: Commercial Product Manager
Duration: Immediate start – June 2026
Industry: Meat / Primary Sector
Location: NZ (flexible)
AsureQuality is looking for a highly commercial, pragmatic Product Manager to lead NPD and product renovation across mission critical product portfolios during a period of major industry change.
This is a fast-paced, outcome-driven role for someone who can quickly bring structure, clarify priorities, and make sound commercial recommendations.
You’ll provide senior product leadership, creating training, data, and QA products that support meat industry customers through a period of change. In parallel, you’ll help define clear, commercially sound long-term product direction that benefits both the meat industry and AsureQuality.
What You’ll Do
Rapidly refine the reverse brief, clarify product concepts, test assumptions, and set success measures.
Lead NPD and renovation workstreams across long and short term product portfolios
Validate customer needs, gather insights and refine concepts
Build robust commercial models to test product viability — including market sizing, pricing and volume assumptions, cost-to-serve, margin, and return metrics (e.g. EBIT, RoCE) to support clear go/no-go decisions
Develop prototypes, run pilots, and lead customer validation
Prepare products for commercialisation and BAU handover
Operate effectively within a traditional industry during a period of enforced change, influencing with clarity, pragmatism, and respect for context
What You Bring
Strong commercial mindset and NPD experience
Strength in financial modelling
Experience in the primary, meat, and/or industry training sectors
Ability to lead multistream, ambiguous product development
Confident stakeholder management and governance capability
You Are
Pragmatic. Decisive. Calm under pressure. Can create clarity in ambiguity. Commercially astute and able to cut through complexity, fast.
Interested?
If you can deliver clarity, momentum, and commercially sound product decisions, we’d like to hear from you.
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