Commercial Product Manager Fixed Term

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AsureQuality is seeking a fixed-term Commercial Product Manager to lead NPD and product renovations across mission-critical portfolios during a period of major industry change. Immediate start through June 2026, onsite in Auckland with NZ flexibility. The role demands a highly commercial, pragmatic leader who can rapidly refine briefs, run multi-stream development, validate customer needs, and build robust commercial models (market sizing, pricing, cost-to-serve, margins, EBIT, RoCE) to support go/no-go decisions. You'll prototype, pilot, and prepare products for commercialization and handover, while influencing stakeholders in a traditional industry. To apply, tailor your CV and cover letter to demonstrate NPD success, financial modelling, risk management, and change leadership, with concise examples and measurable outcomes.

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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